Tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival which takes place 30 July – 2 August 2020 in the picturesque grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, go on sale next week on 10 December.

Folk on Foot are to co-curate “Wild Singing”, a weekend of live performance at Kings Place featuring Martin Simpson, Eliza Carthy, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, The Rheingans Sisters, Kitty Macfarlane, The Shackleton Trio & more.

Thirty Pounds of Bone and Philip Reeder board Girl Emily, a 1974 fishing boat to perform nine new arrangements of traditional fishing/maritime songs, as the skipper and his mate go about their business of fishing.

Fairport’s Cropredy Convention three-day open-air music festival has announced the full line-up for the 2020 event including Clannad, Home Service, Matthews Southern Comfort, Richard Thompson, The Sharon Shannon Quartet, Trevor Horn Band, Edward II, Emily Barker & more.

Colin Irwin heads to Butlin’s, Skegness for the weekend. The temptation to conjure images of faded glamour and unashamed tack and launch into full Hi-De-Hi mode is almost overwhelming. And yet, The Great British Folk Festival is a resounding success story.

The BIT Collective presents Furthering the Discussion: A day of conversation and workshops exploring gender and equality issues in folk and traditional music – from 12 pm at the CCA Glasgow on Tuesday the 10th December.

Alex Rex, the nom de guerre of Alex Neilson, returns with his new album Andromeda out 7th February 2020 which includes guest appearances from Shirley Collins and Steve Jackson. Watch the video for first single “Haunted House”.

Sam Amidon steps into the mystic’s “memory theatre” as he draws from the Anthology of American Folk Music. Expansive and eccentric in equal measure, it just goes to show there’s plenty more digging worth doing.

You must give Cinelli great kudos for his boundless approach to these recordings, he’s allowed the music to guide him down many satisfying and unpredictable avenues. ‘Night Songs’ is an album with a clear thematic purpose that emphatically realises its ambition.

Listen to “Jane Jane”, the new single from Bonny Light Horseman featuring Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson and Josh Kaufman. It’s taken from their self-titled debut album, due out January 24th.

Watch the latest video from Sean Aston MacTaggart. Of “Every Little Brunette”, he tells us “I’ve been writing this song since I was seventeen. It’s a long time ago love that’s lasted years.”

Featuring Sam Amidon, The Deadlians, Buriers, Bird in the Belly, Rachael Dadd, Cynefin, Nettlebone, Edd Donovan, Harp & a Monkey, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Xylouris White, Jakub Šimanský & more.