Christy Moore announces new album ‘Magic Nights’ featuring 26 songs across spread across two discs recorded in venues from Derry to Dublin, Birmingham to Belfast and Liverpool to Lisdoonvarna.

Acclaimed duo The Lost Brothers, Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland have announced details of their sixth album entitled “After The Fire After The Rain” due early 2020 and share the first track “Fugitive Moon” which also features M Ward on guitar.

Richard Dawson’s ‘2020’ is a sincere appeal to optimism, and above all else, sincerity is Dawson’s calling card. This is art shorn of artifice, pop against populism, and it just so happens to be one of the defining statements of our times.

For this month and next, Emily Barker and Marry Waterson will be taking their album ‘A Window to Other Ways’ on the road. I caught up with Marry to talk about the album and how it all came about.

With Parallel Line, Tim Crabtree challenges listeners to hear the music that exists within the notes, in the process re-examining who we are and what we think.

Watch the latest video from Twelfth Day for their new album single Superwoman. Directed by James Ewen, the icing on the cake comes from trapeze artist  Sharisse Tindell.

While they clearly set out to create a good time, their consummately played approach to a celebration of traditional folk music is every bit as serious and as passionate as the Carthys and Watersons of this world.

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett have created an album that is seductively dreamlike but sometimes sad, layered like a palimpsest but accessible on every one of those layers. It is unlikely you will hear a better instrumental album this year.

Tomorrow sees the release of Between Stones, the new album from Hampshire based singer-songwriter Owen Tromans. Listen in full and be guided through the mythical landscapes conjured throughout in Tromans’s own words.

We catch up with Will Pound at Cropredy and chat about the new projects he has underway as well as ‘A Day Will Come’ due to be released and toured in May 2020.

Postcards & Pocketbooks is a fully comprehensive Bella Hardy retrospective and a well-rounded overview of one of the finest folk singer-songwriters of her generation and a useful staging post from which to launch the next chapter.

The James Patrick Gavin Trio is a new project featuring Adrian Lever, Tim Fairhall and James Patrick Gavin. Watch them performing Stanley Hills in the beautiful Welsh Chapel (in London).