Purbeck Valley Folk Festival put on another great festival this year with great performances from Siobhan Miller Band, Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys, Trad.Attack!, Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds, Jez Hellard and the Djukella Orchestra, Jenn & Laura-Beth and more.

Kansas City Out Groove is an album brimming with confident and accomplished musicianship, first-rate vocal performances, and an abundant, utterly infectious, relish of the music itself.

While the Punch Brothers embrace a melting-pot of influences on All Ashore, it always feels organically driven. It’s intimate and inclusive, and the listener feels privileged to be in on the five musicians’ private session.

Watch Botany Bay, the title track of Kelly Oliver’s forthcoming new album set for release this month on September 28th – a release full of freshness which does the English folk song tradition proud.

Scottish quartet FARA announce second album ‘Times from Times Fall’, a celebration of their homeland packed with self-composed tunes and songs primarily drawn from the words of Orcadian poets. On Tour September/October.

Confidence positively oozes from 13 Rivers, powerful, intelligent, multi-faceted, beautifully performed and consistently strong. It’s also a ton of fun and a genuine high point in Thompson’s career; a record that should be chewed on and discussed for many years to come.

Writing music about his native Speyside definitely seems to bring out the very best in Hamish Napier. The Railway really is a truly delightful journey. As expected, this is music that makes the heart sing.

This week’s show features new releases from The Furrow Collective, Northern Flyway, Assynt, Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, John Smith, Fara, Grace Petrie, Curse of Lono, Kinnaris Quintet and more.

With their long–awaited second album Magic Ship due for release 21st September via Bella Union, Mountain Man have shared a video for current single “Rang Tang Ring Toon.” A great dinner party and a fine vinyl collection.

We catch up with Bridget St John in New York City before she kicks off her 2018 intimate UK & Ireland tour with an appearance at Birmingham’s Moseley Folk Festival (Sunday 2 September 2018). She talks about her move to the US, John Peel, Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers, Michael Chapman and more.

Earlier this year Irish/American supergroup The Gloaming played seven sold-out shows at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. Watch the live versions of ‘Fáinleog’ and ‘The Old Favourite’…….these performances stretch out and roam in unexpected new directions.

Jon Boden embarks on a solo tour of Scotland in September and October and then in March 2019, Jon will hit the road with the three phenomenal string players from the Remnant Kings – Morven Bryce, Lucy Revis and Helen Bell.