O’Hooley & Tidow invite you to their alternative celebration of Christmas as they announce their WinterFolk tour featuring winter songs and carols. Plus listen to them performing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘River’.

Beoga’s new album will undoubtedly be popular with their existing fan base, but their maturing approach to composition and arrangement will also appeal to a wider audience, one that may be new to what Beoga offer, but are sure to be instantly enchanted by this absolute charmer of an album.

Watch the award-winning short film ‘La Madre Buena’ (The Good Mother) by up and coming female Yorkshire based director Sarah Clift.The tale of a Mexican mother torn between her politics and pleasing her only son’s birthday wish – to have a Donald Trump piñata.

With Wild Hog, The Furrow Collective have surpassed their excellent debut with a set of songs that is mature, intelligent and experimental. The quartet at the heart of this record, for all their differing styles, have hit upon something that has a rare sparkle to it. A deceptively simple, spell-bindingly beautiful record.

Those people, whom she honours and sings for, represent the “past generations who have sung those songs to us and carried them through”. And in doing so, Shirley has produced an album of true stature, and one that’s destined to remain in your affections.

The Sadies reveal first single from forthcoming new album Northern Passages…a great vintage sounding acid-folk number which began life as a letter to their friend Rick White, whose contributions, both musical and visual, have helped to shape The Sadies’ career.

Maz O’Connor takes bold new steps towards a new future in music as she unveils her most beautiful song and video to date with ‘Skin,’ in which she also performs a moving and emotional contemporary dance; this is just the beginning.

Will Varley says he’s been wanting to make a record like Kingsdown Sundown for a long time. He couldn’t have picked a better moment. Don’t miss his tour of the UK & Ireland this month.

Brisbane based folk singer/songwriter Angharad Drake reveals her new music video for ‘Baby’, a song that ‘encapsulates the selfishness of love, explored through the paranoia and envy of one side.’

Featuring The Furrow Collective, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Marry Waterson, Bendith, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Lal Waterson, Martin Carthy, Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, Sam Lee, Jim Moray, Eliza Carthy, Beoga, Steeleye Span, Kathryn Tickell, Lady Maisery and Shirley Collins.

Read our guest post from London-based, half-German singer-songwriter and producer Vanessa Anne Redd as she talks us through her new album Behind the Wall which is out now on Sharp Attack Records. She’s playing a one-off London show at Servant Jazz Quarters on 9 November.

To celebrate her return to recording after 38 Years with the release of Lodestar, Shirley Collins, one of the most respected and legendary folk song collectors and singers, shares her fifteen favourite songs with Folk Radio UK.