Watch the new music video for the beautifully moving ‘Kansas City, MO’ from Minnesota indie-folk band Humbird. The song features on their latest EP Where Else. Well worth checking out.

Stick in the Wheel announce their second studio album “Follow Them True” and reveal video for lead single ‘Over Again’. The songs on the album examine rituals and cycles, our inherent power to change ourselves and the world around us, the past repeating itself, ghosts and death, land and place, thieves and beggars.

The latest offering from Pilgrims’ Way finds them pushing the envelope in a daring move which pays off beautifully on Stand and Deliver, a concept album which will raise the spirits and a smile or two.

Watch the new video from the acclaimed folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey who are doing their bit to help promote a subject close to their hearts today – mental health. The film is about anxiety and isolation.

The end of last month saw the release of Midnight Milk, the much-anticipated new album from Edinburgh outfit Adam Holmes & The Embers. Don’t miss their UK tour with fellow Scot, Rachel Sermanni.

The fourth London Folk & Roots Festival gets underway later this month offering 18 Days of the very best in Folk, Roots, World, Blues & Country Music (Saturday 28th October – Saturday 18th November 2017).

Comprised of folk/bluegrass musicians Paddy Kiernan and Niall Hughes together with Iranian born brothers Shahab and Shayan Coohe, Navá explores the ancient musical cultures of Ireland and Persia.

We talk to Christine Primrose about Gaelic song and her latest album ‘Gràdh is Gonadh – Guth ag aithris’. She is to be inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in recognition of her contribution to Gaelic music.

With Gigspanner, Peter Knight has assembled one of the most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and beyond. The WIfe Of Urban Law is both experimental and accessible; it is music that respects the past without being in thrall to it. And more importantly, it is a record of stunning and sustained beauty. 

Ahead of a run of acoustic live dates in November Lisbee Stainton announces new album, ‘Lisbee LIVE’ from which you can listen to Undertow, a song co-written with a long-time champion of Lisbee’s music, Tom Robinson.

The songs on Lucy Kitchen’s ‘Sun to my Moon’ are strong and striking, delivered with both fragility and conviction, which deserve to be heard. A gorgeous, atmospheric offering.

Ten great tracks from Old Salt Union that have set out their stall on this, their Compass Records debut. They have more than enough talent and go to make it and I am already looking forward to their follow-up.