Part 2 of the Bert Jansch reissue, A Man I’d Rather Be from Earth Recordings covers four albums and a journey across 6 years, that takes Bert from style to style and from strength to strength.

Joachim Cooder announces Fuschia Machu Picchu, a seven-song EP inspired by the world music he grew up on, with touches of Psychedelia and Appalachian Folk. Watch him performing live in the studio.

Following his tour supporting Jeff Tweedy in back in January, James Elkington returns to the UK shores next month to begin his UK & European Tour. Not to be missed.

The Levellers, Nick Mulvey and Teenage Fanclub are to headline the thirteenth Moseley Folk Festival in Birmingham (Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September) alongside the likes of Bridget St. John, Martin Carthy, This is the Kit, King Creosote, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and many more.

In a new video, Rhiannon Giddens, this year’s guest curator for Cambridge Folk Festival, reveals her choices which include Amythyst Kiah, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago and Peggy Seeger. Watch the video and enjoy our special showcase playlist.

Inspired by the golden days of easy listening, watch Best Laid Plans, the new video from R W Hedges. It’s taken from their forthcoming album The Hunters In The Snow which takes its dues from The Beatles and The Kinks, among other quintessentially distinctive British pop bands.

On An Introduction to The Watersons and Waterson:Carthy, Topic records cover a 40 year period within 15 songs – a superb and timely retrospective of a vital shaping force in contemporary British folk. A collective musical vision of exhilarating purity, beauty, and power.

The dulcet tones of Jamie Doe return this week under his much-loved moniker The Magic Lantern. Taken from his forthcoming album To The Islands, listen to his new single Lydia which is also our Song of the Day.

Abbey Wood is an unmitigated triumph. Clever and heartfelt, it inverts folk tropes by presenting historical narratives in extremely personal ways or by creating finely-observed urban backgrounds where the more personal songs can play out. Hayter’s haunted, haunting voice holds it all together and makes it fabulously unique.

Charlie Parr has revealed his video for “Dog” today from his Red House album of the same name. Shot on location in Parr’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota with a cast of locals and their dogs, the video was directed by Dan Huiting.

For his seventh album, Thousand Springs, East Nashvillian Korby Lenker decided to skip the studio altogether and head to his home state of Idaho to record in places that held particular meaning for him. It’s all the richer for it.

Michael McGoldrick releases ARC, his new solo album, next month, his fifth in 22 years. We caught up with Mike in Manchester to chat about his new album, his championing of future generations of Irish traditional music players and to find out how he manages to balance his busy time as a musician.