We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting, The Haar, featuring Adam Summerhayes, Cormac Byrne, Murray Grainger and Molly Donnery, will take you on a journey and have you appreciating the purest of life’s pleasures. Wonderful stuff.

Taken from his latest album ‘Forever Just Beyond’, Clem Snide has shared a live performance with Scott Avett of album track ‘Easy’. That this album came into being is something of a miracle which makes this session all the more special.

We talk to Ciaran Algar about his ‘Corona Collaboration’ project.  After starting out as a way just to pass the time during lockdown, the project has built a large fan-base, featured twice on National television and is now being turned into a crowdfunded album project.

Watch the video for the new single from Our Man In The Field (AKA Alexander Ellis). It Was Ever So explores vocation and identity; it’s about the men and women who lost their jobs when London’s oldest fire station was closed in 2014. It’s out on May the 4th to coincide with International Firefighters’ Day.

Lamentations, the new album from American Aquarium, is further testament to Barham’s storytelling skills as well as the painful honesty of the personal numbers; it may well be his best yet.

Grammy-nominated frame drum specialist, flautist and composer, Marla Leigh Goldstein pays homage to the ancient lineage of women frame drummers in Rhythms of Tof Miriam. Watch the accompanying exquisite video which premieres on Folk Radio today.

Join us this Sunday 3 May at 10:30 am for the next Hudson Records Listening Club and listen to ’Laws of Motion’ in its entirety with commentary and insights from Karine Polwart, Inge Thomson and Steven Polwart.

Having someone you can count on is of the utmost of importance these days and no one appreciates that more than M.C. Taylor and Hiss Golden Messenger. Forward, Children provides a testament to the unsung heroes who provide for our collective future.

Last week, Jack Sharp released his full-length debut as a solo artist ‘Good Times Older’, watch him performing the title track live – a subtle examination of nostalgia, memory and loss.

Darren Hayman returns with his new album Home Time on 22 May via Fika Recordings, an autobiographical album about breakups. Watch his latest video for ‘I Was Thinking About You”.

River Lea signs John Francis Flynn, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Dublin whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. Watch him performing Shallow Brown.

Changing his gears and shining the spotlight on the things he believes, Mr. Alec Bowman’s I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot suggests, despite all the evidence to the contrary, we still need to look to find a reason to believe.