Honey and the Bear celebrate the release of their new album ‘Journey Through the Roke’ with a beautifully animated video for ‘Buried In Ivy’. The animation draws a focus to our precious seas and oceans and the part we must play in their protection.

It seems Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola cannot put a foot wrong and The Smoky Smirr o Rain is a stunning addition to an already impressive catalogue of music. Written and played with skill, flair and feeling, this album is vital and quite wonderful.

For week three of the Bob Dylan Appreciation Society, Danny Neill steers our attention towards Dylan’s songs of Society, Protest & Classic Story Songs. Again Danny has pulled together another great playlist to accompany the piece.

Hiss Golden Messenger shares Dylan-inspired video for Hardlytown – “Maybe the conversation that the mother and son have throughout ‘Hardlytown’ was my attempt to reckon with the tension that exists between selflessness and selfishness.”

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.