Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Zachary Lucky returns with new album ‘Midwestern’. Old school folk and country, sung from the heart with sentiments to which everyone can relate.

Music journalist Colin Irwin shares his thoughts on this year’s BBC Folk Awards – Manchester’s grand Bridgewater Hall provided plenty of talking points, a bit of glitz and one particular moment that falls into the ‘not a dry eye in the sparkling water’ category.

The winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 include Ye Vagabonds, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Ríoghnach Connolly, Trials of Cato, Karine Polwart.

With ‘Chosen Daughter’, Maz O’Connor presents a very personal but equally universal album that is veined, as per the title, both with the a sense of being wanted and the need to feel so, let it bring out the very best of your musical maternal instincts.

We chat to Luke Daniels, our current Artist of the Month, about his new album “Old Friends & Exhausted Enemies”. Daniels is one of folk music’s true originals. Whatever he plans to do next is unlikely to be quite like anything else.

Steve Gunn releases Unseen Acoustic, a spellbinding, stripped-down EP featuring intimate acoustic versions of songs from his latest album, The Unseen In Between. Watch the accompanying short documentary.

On a new Tom Waits tribute album, Aimee Mann, Joseph, Patty Griffin, Rosanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Corinne Bailey Rae, Angie McMahon, Courtney Marie Andrews, and more put their own unique spin on the gravel-voiced troubadour’s work.

We catch up with singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Chris Leslie at Cropredy, who has been a member of Fairport Convention since 1997. He talks about his new love for the clarsach, plans for a new solo album, Fairport news and more.

Dublin four-piece Lankum have today shared the accompanying video for ‘The Young People’, their latest single from their new album ‘The Livelong Day’, which will be released on October 25th.

As The Son Of Town Hall, Ben Parker and David Berkeley have created an album that plays like nothing else you will hear this year. Equal parts care and craftsmanship, joy and sorrow, it is a splendour to behold. As a bonus, watch their video for their new single The Line Between.

Often sailing a stream of consciousness and impressionistic imagery, Intergalactic Sailor is dreamily ethereal and melodically therapeutic in its calming eddies, it’s well worth booking passage across the cosmic seas.

Featuring Sandra Kerr & John Faulkner, Dave Swarbrick with Trevor Lucas, Pentangle, Fotheringay, Wizz Jones, Christy Moore, Silly Wizard, Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band, John Renbourn & more.