Watch this beautiful live session of The Little Unsaid performing ‘Day is Golden’ at Highgate Cemetary. The song is also the title of their forthcoming tour. Selected Works, a 15 track career to date primer is set for release on May 18 via Reveal Records.

Improvisation and invention meet the listener at every turn of ‘Well Met’. Knight and Spiers have created a musical document that should inspire future generations of musicians to engage with Britain’s folk dancing heritage, and the beautiful, mysterious tunes that can be found within that heritage. 

The Orphan King is Ed Romanoff’s belated follow-up to his self-titled 2012 debut, he’s linked with Simone Felice as producer who also provides the drums alongside an impressive roster of musicians.

This morning BBC Radio 2 announced that singer-songwriter Nick Drake will be inducted into the Folk Awards Hall of Fame at this years’ Radio 2 Folk Awards and that Dónal Lunny will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Following on from the success of their debut album ‘Symbiosis’ Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton will release their second album ‘Symbiosis II’ this spring (20 April). Take a listen to the track Birds.

Spring is coming and Sproatly Smith are getting ready for Weirdshire International Psych Folk Festival ft. Kitchen Cynics, Trappist Afterland, David Colohan, Cath and Phil Tyler and more.

Neko Case announces ‘Hell-On’, her most accessible and most challenging album to date – rife with withering self-critique, muted reflection, anthemic affirmation and Neko’s unique poetic sensibility. Listen to the title track here.

Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock reveal brand new video ‘Forgive Me’, taken from latest album Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love. The song’s lyrics cover a subject that any mother could no doubt empathise with, and it is encased beautifully in their atmospheric folk song.

Bennett Wilson Poole is as pure a slab of joyous Americana as you could wish to hear – Assured, cohesive and above all, a thoroughly accomplished musical delight of the highest quality. Destined to be a landmark release in the annals of the genre.

John Forrester may not have the wider recognition as some of his peers and contemporaries, but, as this insightful and open album proves, he’s no less a talent.

John Prine reveals ‘Knockin’ On Your Screen Door’, the second track to be taken from his new album ‘The Tree of Forgiveness’, set for release on April 13 via his own independent label, Oh Boy Records.

Our Song of the Day comes from Kristina Jung with her new single The North Water which was commissioned by the Groninger Museum and is dedicated to an old oil painting by Jan van Goyen, who lived in the 17th century.