New Orleans-based Balkan band Blato Zlato return with new single ‘Vodata Teche’ taken from their forthcoming new album ‘​In The Wake’ which, while musically rooted in Bulgarian tradition, reflects heavily on New Orleans’ tenuous yet binding relationship with nature.

Watch Ian A Anderson performing Everybody’s Killing Me, a song he wrote back in 1984 but has recently started performing again in his revitalised solo gigging career after having been struck by its scary topicality.

Next month, SEALL Festival of Small Halls once again brings the giants of Scottish traditional music to small rural communities around the Isles of Skye and Raasay.

‘Flux’ takes tide and time as its theme, but uses it ferociously to highlight the inequality and selfishness that we have introduced into our world. This is surely Rachael Dadd’s most potent work to date.

Xylouris White’s video for “Ascension”, directed by Shelagh Hannan, relates to the Sisyphean theme of their forthcoming album. The Sisypheans is out on November 8th with a European & US Tour to follow.

Dusk could soon be considered one of the more important contemporary instrumental acoustic guitar recordings, and J. R. Bohannon a key player in the genre.

Watch the stunning new video for Maz O’Connor’s ‘Cordelia’, taken from her new album ‘Chosen Daughter’. The video was made by Certain Light Films, a female-led, London-based film company.

Luke Daniels, our Artist of the Month who recently released “Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies”, offered to write a piece of his choosing. He, rather bravely, chose the Nature and Origin of Folk Music.

Mancunian trio Harp & a Monkey have been pushing the boundaries of traditional British music for more than a decade, and we are delighted to have an exclusive video premiere from their long-awaited fourth album – The Victorians.

Seth Lakeman announces new album ‘The Pilgrim’s Tale’ and releases first single ‘Watch Out’. The album features Cara Dillon, Benji Kirkpatrick and Ben Nicholls as well as narration by actor Paul McGann.

Itasca shares video for her new single ‘Only a Traveler’ shot on Super 8 film in New Mexico and California. The single is taken from her forthcoming album titled ‘Spring’, out on 1st November on Paradise of Bachelors.

Of all the artists working within the rather loose confines of alternative folk The Livelong Day surely puts Lankum at the forefront. Writhing with the terror of our times one moment, then rising with indescribable heart and hunger the next; this is traditional song stretched and submerged.