Twelve Months and A Day is the best possible advertisement for the delights in store from this entertaining duo – you can hear why they continue to be such a draw at folk clubs and festival stages alike.

This week’s Folk Show features new music from Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly, Ye Vagabonds, Sairie, Burnt Paw, Howe Gelb, Lizabett Russo, Jonathan Day, Sean Taylor, The Gloaming, Eliza Carthy, Leveret, Hedy West and Naomi Bedford & Paul Simmonds.

Ancora picks up where Flook left off with Haven 14 years ago, delighting us, again, with their unique, exciting sound and their ever-inventive arrangements. Expectations more than fully met – simply a brilliant album.

California Feetwarmers will spare nothing to exhume this treasurable heritage for our delectation and have a whale of a time doing so. If you like your early jazz close-to-the-source, boisterous and fun, then they will definitely warm your feet and more.

Our Song of the Day comes from Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds with I Must And Will Be Married from their forthcoming album Appalachian Ballads of English and Scottish Origin which is due out in May. Watch the accompanying video.

Changeable Heart’s soul is in the traditions from which Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly draw their inspiration, but at its heart is a series of exquisite vocal duets from two of the finest voices in the land. It’s a marvellous, elegant and finely crafted album that will long be remembered as one of this year’s highlights.

This spring sees The Askew Sisters launch their bold and long-awaited new album ‘Enclosure’. Their tour kicks off this month, watch their new video for Goose & Common.

Listen to ‘I Do It All The Time’, the forthcoming single from alt-folk songstress Sive – aka Sadhbh O’Sullivan. I’ve no doubt that this new single will continue the upward trajectory set by her critically acclaimed previous singles.

With their superb fourth album Diversions now out, busy super-folk trio Leveret spoke to us about spontaneity in the band, shifting roles and playing with better musicians.

British singer-songwriter Roo Panes today announces the release of new single ‘Commentator’, alongside revealing details of a deluxe edition of his latest ‘Quiet Man’ album (out April 26th).

His delicious caressing of the lyrics reminds me of Mike Scott at his most incisive; I can also hear the soulfulness of Ray LaMontagne at times too. Sean Taylor has recorded an album on a par with the strongest work by either of those high-ranking acts and has also written one of the premier topical song albums of our time.

O’Hooley & Tidow’s song ‘Gentleman Jack’ will feature as the closing theme song for each episode of Sally Wainwright’s BBC/HBO drama ‘Gentleman Jack’.  Starring Suranne Jones as 19th Century diarist, writer, traveller, mountaineer, rural gentlewoman, and industrialist Anne Lister.