As Martha Tilston announces details of her new album NOMAD released via Squiggly Records on May 12th take a listen to her new double A-side single ‘Nomad Blood’/‘Little Arrow.’

The first names are announced for FolkEast 2017 which promises to be another fantastic year with names such as Jon Boden, Michael Chapman, Simpson, Cutting and Kerr, Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick, Ninebarrow and more.

Renata Rosa cuts a colourful figure from the very beginning as she sweeps onto the stage at Glasgow City Halls to perform with her three-piece band…a thrilling and enchanting taste of Brazil.

Watch Morning Sun, a video premiere from London-based songwriter Lee Endres. The song is taken from his forthcoming debut album ‘Croft.’

Robin Morton’s admiration for the Battlefield Band in all its many incarnations has driven the assembly of this collection; snapshots of 40 years of musical development that so effectively chart the band’s evolution. The Producer’s Choice is a superbly fitting celebration of it.

Our Song of the Day is ‘Antiseptic Greeting,’ courtesy of Oklahoma-born Samantha Crain. Taken from her fifth album with ‘You Had Me At Goodbye’. Out on Full Time Hobby on 24th March.

The very nature of Celtic Connections means there are a wealth of exciting collaborations, formed without much time for rehearsal, and they can be all the more exciting for it. However, when something as carefully planned, and as perfectly executed, as Duncan Chisholm’s The Gathering takes place the results are captivating and memorable.

The tension has been building with the promise of this new video from The Staves for Tired as F**k, a fan favourite that has featured in their live set for the past year. It features on their new double A Side and coincides with their upcoming tour.

Madrid-based Track Dogs have announced a series of dates in the UK and Ireland. The band’s last album Serenity Sessions featured in Neil’s Top Ten Albums of 2016 so well worth checking out if you get the chance.

The years covered by these recordings were a golden period for Old Crow Medicine Show. For anyone who wants to know what fuelled the, now widespread, musical chimaera, “modern old time”, this is essential listening.

Our song of the Day comes from Durham, North Carolina singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell. Furniture Man is taken from his second full-length album, What in the Natural World, an album that explores the traditional songs from the American South, due out on 31st March via Paradise of Bachelors.

Jesca Hoop has shared her new video for Memories Are Now, the title track from her critically acclaimed new album, available worldwide on Sub Pop from tomorrow. The mesmeric video was directed by award-winning animator/illustrator Annlin Chao