This Friday, Farmer Dave and The Wizards of The West release a single version of ‘Babe Got Plans (For Me)’ – listen to the single and hear from Farmer Dave about love and loss.

Anglo-Irish folk group The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, return with a moving and affecting take on the traditional ballad ‘Black is the Colour’ that is brimming with originality.

We talk to Dan Torigoe, a man who followed his dreams. The founder of Doleceola Recordings Dan travels halfway around the world from Japan to record American traditional music using the same vintage analog equipment used by Alan Lomax.

Listen to ‘Wide World’, the beautiful new single from Sophie Janna of The Lasses which she describes as a hymn for the modern age. It’s also a lullaby for all ages…

In a BBC Radio 4 Documentary ‘Dancers at Dawn’, Martin Green traces a line from his early noughties rave epiphany back to his childhood memories of a dawn Morris dance as he explores the ancient associations of music and dance with altered states of consciousness.

Last year Dylan sang, “I contain multitudes” quoting Whitman, a sentiment this sophomore tour de force boldly epitomizes. Equal parts glamorous and grotesque, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s Superwolves is a sprawling, bewildering frenzy of ideas and emotions, leaving the listener with plenty to unpick.

Scottish quartet Gnoss share their video for ‘The River’. It’s the second single to be taken from their forthcoming new album ‘The Light of The Moon’ and an upbeat number that’s sure to be among the many album highlights.

Musically, vocally and lyrically absorbing, Abigail Dowd’s ‘Beautiful Day’ may chart one woman’s story of rising above the odds, but in troubled times such as these, it offers a universally inspirational voice to ride the flood rather than being drowned by it.

Backed by a very strong cast of musicians, Neilson Hubbard returns with ‘Digging Up The Scars’, a simple, yet affecting and deeply resonant album looking at coming to terms with the past, of finding acceptance and healing.

To mark this year’s virtual Fèis Rois festival, two concerts will be shown on BBC ALBA, the first featuring Lauren MacColl’s The Seer and the second will showcase performances from SIAN, Mairearad & Anna and Project Smok.

On Tuesday 27 April 2021 Spell Songs will perform a unique live streamed concert to raise funds for the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project. We chat to Jackie Morris, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Julie Fowlis, Kris Drever, Jim Molyneux, Rachel Newton and Beth Porter as well as Lauren Hyams, Natural History Museum’s Head of Garden Activities.

A terrific traditional folk album and a fascinating insight into Angela Carter’s creative process and her own pretty much unknown involvement in the folk scene, one which will surely further expand Paulusma’s reputation and bring Carter’s writings to a whole new audience.