The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose is a 3-day music festival bringing together for the first time more than 25 acoustic fingerstyle guitar and banjo players from every era of the American Primitive/Guitar Soli movement. Listen to a special playlist put together by Tompkins Square.

Wood for the Trees, the title track on Fran Wyburn’s forthcoming debut album, is released today. Fran collaborated with artist and filmmaker Ray Kane to create the music video as a quirky, moving visual accompaniment, watch it here.

Johnny heads up the A3 to Petersfield for a sold-out evening of prime Americana at a new venue Americana at The Studio. Featuring The Savannahs, The Goat Roper Rodeo Band and The Jigantics, word of mouth alone should ensure a rosy future for the venue.

Lord of the Desert is 3hattrio’s most adventurous and eclectic work yet, “pure peyote delirium enveloped in a haze of banjo, guitar, bass, fiddle lines and bass drum dancing around like the indigenous desert animal spirits”…long may they reign.

On March 23rd, Tompkins Square is to release ‘Ceremony of Dreams: Studio Sessions & Outtakes, 1972-1977’. It features 30 previously unreleased tracks from the mid-seventies experimentalists Entourage. Listen in full to the album here.

Ry Cooder has announced the release of his first solo album in six years. The Prodigal Son is set for release by Fantasy Records on May 11th, 2018. Listen to lead track Shrinking Man.

Musically, The Two Worlds is mesmeric…retaining the carefully atmospheric, dreamlike ambience of its predecessors. Centred around Brigid’s trademark clangorous, heavy-sustain piano tone (or reverberant guitar and organ) for a backdrop, all detail is couched in a languid analogue sound that oozes authenticity.

Laish recorded a live session to an invited audience at Brighton Electric Studios and they have just revealed the first video from that session, an extended version of Time Elastic, the title track of their new album due for release on 13 April via Talitres.

Watch the new snowy themed video from Twelfth Day for Another Phase in History. It was written for their friend Maya Youssef – the wonderful Syrian Kanun player. They are on tour this month.

This year’s Costa Del Folk in Ibiza includes headliners Oysterband, Show of Hands, Skerryvore and Sharon Shannon. Plus Trad.Attack!, Dan Walsh and Alastair Anderson, Jack Rutter, Lucy Ward, The Sands Family and many more.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominated singer-songwriter Jack Cookson has recorded a new six-track EP titled Chamfer – ‘It’s really good and I’m really proud of it,’ says Jack – and he is looking for backers so it can be released on CD and vinyl in April.

Legendary singer, songwriter, activist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez releases her first new studio album in a decade. Whistle Down the Wind is a totally engaging listen from start to finish and one that invites repeated visits.