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.

Lunatraktors ‘The Missing Star’ is a recording that will linger in your thoughts. A powerful comment on the politics of our day, it deserves a wider listen, and I for one, would love to see this performed live. A timely recording. We need this.

Like Toby Hay’s ‘Morning / Evening Raga’ album, Home Recordings Vol 1 is instrumental guitar music at its purest and there is much beauty in its simplicity and control.

Featuring: Waterless Hills, Sage Alyte, Arborea, Lori Goldston, Corsano, Maranha & Youngs, Rob St John, Burnt Paw, Dan Haywood with Josephine Foster & more.

Poet, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist Allison Russell (Our Native Daughters, Birds of Chicago), shares new single ‘Persephone’, taken from her first-ever solo project, the highly anticipated Outside Child.

Amythyst Kiah has announced her new album and Rounder Records debut, Wary + Strange. Watch her performing album track “Wild Turkey” live, a stark recounting of her mother’s death and its aftermath.

Crossbill Records are excited to announce the release of Garrett Pierce’s new record ‘Eyes Wide In The Fire’. Accompanying that announcement is a video for the lead single ‘A World on Fire’.

For week two of the Bob Dylan Appreciation Society, Danny Neill steers our attention towards a specific side of Bob Dylan’s writing: Love songs and relationship songs which is accompanied by a four-hour playlist for you all to enjoy.

Listen to ‘Borrowed Days’, an intense and breath-taking performance from Sarah-Jane Summers and Juhani Silvola, taken from their forthcoming new album ‘The Smoky Smirr o Rain’ which is out in May.