This April, Lady Maisery release ‘Live in Lockdown’, an online show beautifully filmed with the trademark vibrant sound of their unmissable live performances. An evening of both unheard new material and old favourites from their many years of touring.

Nancy Kerr releases Tunnellers, a new 5-track EP commissioned by the British Tunnelling Society which covers tunnelling history, achievement, celebration and hardship. Marvellous stuff.

Watch the new video from Katherine Priddy for Indigo, her enchanting lead single from her forthcoming debut album The Eternal Rocks Beneath due for release on June 25 via Navigator Records.

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi’s new album is unlike anything else you will experience this year. They’re Calling Me Home is a metaphor for our times. We all need to find our way home. Let this album serve as your guide.

Scottish folk collective Staran share their second single and video for Balcarres, named after Balcarres Avenue in Glasgow where John Lowrie once lived. It conveys the joy of nostalgia of those memories beautifully…music to happily lose yourself in.

Curated by Peter Knight and spanning 2009 – 2017, From Poets to Wives is an alluring compilation. Peter Knight’s Gigspanner is a national treasure and this is the best of the very best.

Edinburgh Tradfest returns with an online programme featuring a stellar line-up of artists from Scotland and around the world including Shetland Springs: a celebration of the Shetland fiddle tradition, Karine Polwart, Lizabett Russo, Shooglenifty, Kinnaris Quintet, Moishe’s Bagel, Old Blind Dogs, Mike Vass and more.

Darkly romantic, hauntingly melodic and flecked with effective experimental embellishments, Amigo the Devil’s ‘Born Against’ stakes an early birthright for the year’s best-of lists, reinforcing the adage that the devil truly does have all the best songs.

Orcadian singer and guitarist Aidan Moodie, known to many as the frontman of Scottish folk favourites Gnoss, embarks upon a highly anticipated solo career with a genre-fluid first single this Friday titled ‘Welcome’. Watch the accompanying video which premieres on Folk Radio today.

Liz Simmons’s new solo album is soft and soothing, though not without a hint of anxiety. Like the wordsmiths of its title, it captures the rhythms, rhymes and cadences of life in its universal being.

Our Song of the Day comes from How I Became A Wave, the new solo project of Pat Carey, the former vocalist and songwriter with The Hard Ground. Fading Out, is a powerful lead single that lays a solid path for his upcoming album on which he is joined by some of Ireland’s finest musicians.

Maple Glider, the project of Melbourne-based Tori Zietsch shares video for ‘Swimming’, from her forthcoming debut album on Partisan – ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’.