On Green Ribbons, each singer brings something unique and subtly experimental to the table, and the result is a collection of songs that transcends genre and fuses the history of vocal music with the most exciting aspects of its present.

The Lines We Draw Together is a piece of work that sounds both fresh and full of experience, an album for our times, but steeped in history, its poetry is not short on intellectual rigour, but its message is one of earthy wisdom and simplicity – an important album, an album that is full of life.

David Weir chats to Lisa O’Neill backstage at Cambridge Folk Festival about Music Awards (she’s been nominated for four BBC Folk Awards), Nick Cave, Margaret Barry, songwriting and the distractions of technology and dreaming.

Listen to Plane Sailors, the new single from Welsh-born folk singer/songwriter James McArthur with his group The Head Gardeners. It features brothers Liam and Joel Magill of Syd Arthur.

Islander presents the second edition of ‘Quiet Lights’, an exciting new small-scale festival with a big heart, which aims to shine a light on the new wave of Irish and International folk, traditional, and experimental talent.

Cara Dillon and her band took advantage of the presence of a beautiful Romany Caravan at this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival and in they popped for a rendition of The Raggle Taggle Gypsy.

Singer-songwriter Rachel Taylor-Beales is touring a gig-theatre adaptation of her highly acclaimed Stone’s Throw, Lament Of The Selkie album. Interweaving stories of trauma and triumph, through mesmerising songs, visual image and spoken word.

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist admired for her powerful lyricism and social awareness, today sees the release of new single ‘Anything’  by folk/soul, singer-songwriter, Chisara Agor.

Featuring innovative banjoist Jacken Elswyth and Herefordshire duo Alula Down, Betwixt & Between 5 is already proving to be the most irresistible instalment in the series so far.

Originally released in 2003 on CD, VHF records are to reissue Pelt’s Pearls From The River on vinyl for the first time. It features the “classic” Pelt trio lineup of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, and Patrick Best.

Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer announce new project Sway Wild on which they are joined by longtime friend Thom Lord along with a number of special guests including Birds of Chicago, Sean Hayes, Anna Tivel and more.

Having picked up Album of the Year Award and  Composer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards, Duncan Chisholm heads out on the road with his band in September, an unmissable opportunity to catch one of Scotland’s most loved fiddle players.