While Hot Club of Cowtown’s ‘Wild Kingdom’ may be arriving a  little late to put a swing soundtrack into the summer, there’s warmth and joy here whatever the season.

Taken from her new album, watch Louien performing ‘Heart and Mind Alike’; filmed at Brageveien studio where the album was also recorded. She’s joined by her musical soulmate and partner in crime Halvor Falck Johansen.

Featuring new music from Lankum,  Luke Jackson, Lewis McLaughlin, Iain Morrison, Martin Simpson, Vera Van Heeringen, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Show of Hands, Rowan Rheingans, Louien and Ralph McTell.

Our Song of the Day comes from The Magpie Arc, a new cross-border folk/rock band featuring Nancy Kerr, Martin Simpson, Adam Holmes, Tom A Wright and Alex Hunter. Watch them performing their first release – ‘Autumn Leaves’.

Louien has created a special disc centred around grief, mourning and introspection. Despite the pain, Solberg notes, “Grief allows for beautiful things as well.” All are on display in None of My Words.

The journey goes ever onward for Ralph McTell with his seventy-fifth birthday on the horizon. Taking paths less travelled and understanding that it’s less about the destination than the people you meet along the road. May they continue to be varied and may he continue to provide moments of unrivalled beauty.

Taken from his latest album ‘Devil Sky’, watch Dan Webster and Emily Lawler performing a stripped-back version of ‘Mary-Anne’ for Dr Shakamoto’s ‘Live by the Lights’.

After twenty years of good times, Welsh band Mabon have announced that they will be hanging up its boots next autumn. They have a got a “Last Huzzah!” tour planned for spring 2020 as well as final summer Festival dates.

Possessed of the beauty and wildness of its settings, ‘The Edge of the World’ is yet another compelling album from The Orphan Brigade, to borrow from the location in which it was born, a veritable Giant’s Causeway of music, lyrics and atmosphere.

Derin Derin is the latest release from Baba Zula, a four-piece band from Istanbul – Fractured yet unifying and exhilarating as they coax beauty and meaning from different sounds, styles and cultures.

Gilmore and Roberts are now underway with their Autumn Tour with plenty of gigs across the country in venues new and familiar. Watch them performing ‘On The Line’, taken from their album ‘A Problem Of Our Kind’.

After a festival-packed summer, The genre-defying Urban Folk Quartet continue to celebrate their year-long 10th anniversary with an Autumn 2019 tour.