Watch ‘Young’, the first single from Austin-based band Sun June whose debut album ‘years’ will be released via Keeled Scales in June. These warm melodies will keep you coming back.

Canadian foursome The Fretless share video for Holton Alan Moore’s, a tune which appears on their new album Live From The Artfarm, recorded live in a barn in upstate New York before a handful-sized audience assembled only a few feet away from the players.

Acclaimed folk singer and 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee, Julie Fowlis, releases her latest video today to mark International Woman’s Day. The song, Go Your Way, features on Julie’s latest album Alterum.

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.