Four times nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, revered duo Megson hit the road once again in 2017, with a string of dates booked across the UK through September, October and November for their “Pushing On” tour.

The London Folk Festival returns to Camden’s Cecil Sharp House for a day-long celebration of folk music featuring Jim Moray, Lady Maisery, The Askew Sisters, The Rheingans Sisters, The Andy May Trio, Said The Maiden, Moore Moss Rutter, Rosie Hood, Emily Mae Winters and more.

In many respects the community choir is the perfect vehicle for social commentary, they are collectivist, everyone working together with a common aim. In this regard, the Commoners Choir are at the top of their game, they excel at entertaining, provoking and engaging.

A free, half-day workshop at Sheffield University on using the Vaughan Williams Library Digital Archive, and its latest addition the James Madison Carpenter Collection.

The UK’s biggest indoor festival of World Music returns this October with a fantastic lineup including: Afro Celt Sound System, Benjamin Zephaniah & The Revolutionary Minds, Maarja Nuut, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers, O’Hooley & Tidow, Grace Petrie and more.

Exclusive: Listen to Wild Ponies new album Galax on which they pay tribute to the powerful music and rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, where both Wild Ponies’ members Doug and Telisha Williams were born and raised. European Tour October and November 2017.

Binary is an album born in the grey area between defiance and freedom. It is a means to an end which, if you understand DiFranco’s legacy, is far greater than the sum of its parts. For her most dedicated fans, Binary will prove both gratifying and unifying. For newcomers, Ani DiFranco is at home as an enlightened voice in a collective singalong.

Joe Newberry and April Verch clearly had a great time recording ‘Going Home’ together and their enthusiasm for the material springs from the speakers, you just can’t help but be swept along on the tide.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nominees 2017 Ninebarrow have announced that they are currently working on album number three – The Waters and the Wild. Watch footage of a recent rehearsal for a special trio concert with Lee Cuff on cello.

Blue Rose Code unveils the first cut from his forthcoming new album, The Water Of Leith. ‘Love Is…’ – a duet with the multi-award winning folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, Julie Fowlis, talks of ideals and anticipation.

Folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey release new video for ‘Clean White Sheets’, a song commemorating Nellie Spindler, a nurse from Wakefield in Yorkshire who died this day, one hundred years ago.

Ian Randall Thornton’s sound echoes with a history beyond his years, listen in full to his forthcoming self-released album Lineage. “At its heart, Lineage is about family… and the process of sifting through our cultural and familial inheritance, seeking to honor and sustain what is beautiful and beneficial, while uprooting what is hindering and unhealthy.”