With a tracklisting voted for by fans, The Carrivick Sisters celebrate their ten years of recording and performing music together with an album that showcases their incredible talents.

The Mitchell Theatre was filled to capacity to experience the true American legend that is Tom Paxton and he didn’t disappoint. Joined by his band of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer it was a truly memorable evening.

A perfect blend of styles delivered with assured mastery by a group of highly accomplished musicians; The Kaela Rowan Band provided another example of the genuinely outstanding quality of performance on offer at Celtic Connections.

Watch the latest video from Christine Leakey for Walks Like An Angel. This psychedelically-lush song is taken from her upcoming album ‘Wanderlust Wishing Well’ and features guest vocals from Linda Perhacs.

Whilst they’ve both made strong impressions with their solo work, a new partnership of TRADarrr founder members Marion Fleetwood and Gregg Cave may well prove their biggest yet.

Go Get Gone, the debut album from Rosie Jones and Zoe Nicol, known as the Worry Dolls, is sure to cement their reputation here and introduce them to America in a big way.

Listen to Black-Haired Québécoise, one of two previously unreleased tracks featured on the forthcoming ‘Best Of’ compilation from Two-time Grammy Award winners and Grand Ole Opry members Old Crow Medicine Show.

With tickets selling fast for Johnny Flynn’s UK tour he also shares a new video for ‘Reaching The Dead,’ the first in a series of videos to go with the album Sillion, a collaboration between director Simon Ryninks, Johnny, and the London-based documentary and portrait photographer Hanna-Katrina Jedrosz.

Our Song of the Day comes via the new video for Dirty Rain, the latest single from American troubadour Andrew Combs. It features on his forthcoming third album Canyons Of My Mind.

Six years on from Abigail Lapell’s debut, Hide nor Hair is a calming 10-song collection of fine-spun folk songs, as much about mood as it is about storytelling. A departure from her earlier efforts, she possesses a persuasive voice, bearing echoes of many of the greats.

It takes quite a performer to move a packed auditorium from a hand clapping, foot-stomping frenzy to a rapt, silent hush on the turn of a sixpence. Tommy Emmanuel, though, with his mix of guitar and people skills, is the very man for the job. An outright charmer.

Raphael Doyle, a founding member of Café Society, returns to record a definitive album with the support of Tom Robinson, his son and Gerry Diver. A truly excellent piece of work from a man who finally found the self-confidence to believe in himself and the music he makes. We are all the richer for it.