It’s taken a fair few years for Fields to go from playing on the family front porch and around the local bars to making the transition to a recording studio and a wider audience, but Martha Fields is making up for lost time with a vengeance, she has the potential to become a very significant name in Americana roots music.

For their latest single, old-time duo Anna & Elizabeth stretch their wings as they shift into the avant-garde with Hop High / Here in the Vineyard. This set takes the minimalist approach of their previous work and moves into the avant-garde, into a present-day space outside the museum where these stories live, breathe, and grow.

La Llorona (“The Weeping Woman”) is a legendary ghost prominent in the folklore of Mexican Culture. The myth sometimes takes aspects of an urban legend and is present all throughout Hispanic culture, even reaching Spain.

Ewan MacPherson’s abilities as tunesmith, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and collaborator shine through in a delightful album that should be essential listening for anyone who embraces the multi-cultural influences and contemporary folk music.

Carly Dow’s music will leave you charmed and haunted. Her wildcrafted soul-folk blends inspiration from wordsmiths Gillian Welch and Amelia Curran, with an edge reminiscent of Neko Case. She has performed across Canada and is touring the UK for the first time in January 2017.

Steve Ashley has a new album out in the new year. Just two years after ‘This Little Game’ (one of Folk Radio UK’s Best Folk Albums of 2015) Steve returns with ‘Another Day’ – an inspired set of new songs and a much more political collection which Steve considers to be one of his best.

The ever popular Sidmouth Folkweek (4-11 August) have just announced their early headliners Including Lau, Martin Carthy & Sam Sweeney, Dervish, George Monbiot and Ewan McLennan, Chris Wood, Rura, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita and many more.

Following our recent premiere of ‘Sounds Like Help,’ the new single from Austin, Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Austin Basham, he found some time in his busy schedule to answer a few of our questions.

This duo’s positive drive and clear, confident and distinctive sense of musical identity are both introduced and confirmed here – which is not an easy feat for a debut album.

Today, Mairearad Green releases her new remix single ‘Island Folk’ as part of an exciting collaboration with Isle of Skye band, Niteworks, fusing Gaelic music and electronic influences. Watch the new video by Ullapool filmmakers Steven and Gabriel.

Watch the new video from Alt-country NYC singer-songwriter Don DiLego for his hit single ‘Idiot Heart’, taken from his latest album, Magnificent Ram A.

Stick in the Wheel are to release an album of newly curated recordings titled ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings.’ Featuring members of SITW, Jon Boden, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Fay Hield, Sam Lee, Jack Sharp (Wolf People) and many more. Pre-Order today!