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.”

EB=MC² is the new album from British folk legend Michael Chapman and one of Israel’s most successful singer songwriters, Ehud Banai. “A genuine piece of life captured by the flexibility of words and melody.”

Scott Hirsch and Michael Chapman will share the same bill for the first time in September with a series of UK dates. Both artists cast a mercurial eye on their art-form, moving the primitive guitar into realms of blues, jazz and the avant garde.

Song of the Day comes from the Commoners Choir who are dedicated to singing about the world around us, its inequalities and injustices, and their (4-part vocal harmony) opposition to such injustice. This is dedicated to the mass trespass of 1932.

Rather than collaborate on self-written material, Moorer and Lynne have come together to share the music that’s been the backdrop to their lives. In sharing with their audience the songs that each has held dear, they bring their music to new levels that an even wider audience can enjoy. Not Dark Yet was well worth the wait.

Sam Brookes has unveiled a new live video which offers the first glimpse of his forthcoming single Always Will. The session was recorded in an abandoned canal tunnel in Gloucestershire which is over 2 miles in length – meaning for some incredible spine tingling reverb!

This week’s Folk Show features rituals, Cuckoos, poachers, Lapwings, Gypsies and a Golden Plover to name just a few of the themes that crop up in the folk songs we’ve pulled together. We’ve also got a sneak peek at some advance releases from Martin Simpson, Tom Russell, The Young’uns and Mairearad Green and Mike Vass plus more.

Deep Time and Narrow Space is a well-crafted and well-balanced release from Molly Evans. She writes to suit the strengths of her beautiful voice perfectly, it is charming and lyrical, and the accompanying instruments add to the pace and depth of each piece. A real delight.