Critically acclaimed English singer and songwriter Maz O’Connor releases Chosen Daughter, her first new studio album since 2016, on October 25 via Restless Head/Hudson Records. Watch the video for ‘San Francisco’, a stunning first single.

Onward! The Photos is a superb memento and celebration of the first fifty years of Ian A Anderson‘s career. A vitally important figure in the history of folk, roots, acoustic and World music, it is surely time for a full and appropriate recognition of his pivotal contribution.

The first week of August sees the Devon town of Sidmouth reverberate to the Sounds Of Modern Scotland, thanks to the support that the long-running Sidmouth Folk Festival receives from Creative Scotland. The remainder of the week sees two phenomenal young Scots singers step into the Sidmouth spotlight.

200 years ago next week, sword-wielding soldiers on horseback cut through a crowd of protestors in Manchester – Peter Coe, Brian Peters and Laura Smyth, through ballads and broadsides from that period, tell the story of one of the most notorious incidents in British labour history.

Ian Noe tells compelling stories set to simple but infectiously memorable melodies. He cites John Prine as his biggest influence; this can stand shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Kentuckian’s self-titled debut.

Watch the premiere of Without You, the new single from Chloe Foy. The video, which was directed by Will Thomas, is refreshingly inventive, creating windows into other scenes like Lewis Caroll’s ‘Through the Looking-Glass’. 

Wheels of the World is a remarkable achievement: an album that not only sounds like a classic folk album of many years vintage, but it can also stand head-and-shoulders with the best of them too. And it seems like they’ve only just started…

Watch the new video from Junkboy for ‘Old Camera, New Film’, taken from their new album ‘Trains, Trees, Topophilia’, a collection of instrumental music inspired by seasonal tipping points, nature, place and memory.

Ken Abrams shares his highlights of this year’s Newport Folk Festival which celebrated its 60th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger’s birth.

It may have taken Michael Walsh a long time to make his first album, but Quare Hawk is a warm, unassuming collection of tunes, songs and spoken word, striking coherence across a multiplicity of influences and styles.

There’s a rare opportunity for Scots music lovers in the south of England to see multi-award winning Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis at The Sidmouth Folk Festival on Monday 5th August.

Earlier this year, Brooklyn-based folk singer Katie Schottland, better known as Swimming Bell, released her stunning debut album Wild Sight. Watch her new video for her cover of Wands “Driving”, simply stunning…but then I expected nothing less.