With Rooftop Sessions Dreamers’ Circus celebrate more than the colour and vibrancy of Scandinavian music, they celebrate the ability it has to drive inspiration and innovation, and place themselves firmly in the vanguard of that movement.

This week’s show features new music from John Smith, Damien O’Kane & Ron Block, Eddi Reader, Kitty Macfarlane, Jackie Oates and Steve Tilston. Plus music from Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake and more.

John Smith announces new folk album Hummingbird, produced by Sam Lakeman and featuring Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls. The album will be released on October 5th and accompanied by an extensive EU Tour. Listen to John performing Willy Moore, a song he first heard performed by Wizz Jones.

Watch the latest video from The Shackleton Trio for The Fashionable Farmer, they play the main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend.

Having spent the last five years clocking up numerous road miles, This Frontier Needs Heroes is set to return to Europe again next week. In Brad Lauretti’s own words, he is “psyched to be going back to Europe next week!”

Folk singer-songwriter Kirsty Merryn comes to the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, Suffolk on Friday 31st August, and the Guildhall Norwich on 18th October as a part of her first ever solo tour of the UK.

Don’t miss them this October on their 10th Anniversary tour including London, Glasgow and Dublin – Original, entertaining and thought-provoking, the Rubber Wellies are a unique Basque, Irish and British based collective, a travelling folk outfit like few others.

The opportunity presented here to experience the stripped back songs in all of their raw glory is an aural delight. This collection proves that less can indeed sometimes be more, and with Distant Days, Steve Tilston, one of our most revered songsmiths, has confirmed his reputation as a jewel in the folk and acoustic-world crown.

Fresh from his whirlwind world tour with rock legend Robert Plant, charismatic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman releases his stunning, ninth solo album The Well-Worn Path on October 26 via Cooking Vinyl.

Securing a  wider platform following its American release last year, Will Stewart’s solo debut offers up a solid set of classic styled guitar-driven country rock. A county seat is an administrative centre from which legislation for the region is handed down. Checking out this album should be a matter of policy.

When All Is Still may be an album with its roots in tradition, but it has a freshness that makes these old songs seem wonderfully new. It is one of the best collections of traditional songs you’ll hear all year. Read our review and watch the video premiere of Ploughman Lads.

Named after “a massive fairground that appears on Newcastle Town Moor every summer”, listen to Modern Hinterland’s lead single ‘Take You To The Hoppings (To Do Wrong)’, from their forthcoming album which takes its name from the fair.