English Folk Expo kicks off later this month to a sold out event showcasing some of the best music on offer from the English folk music scene. Run alongside Homegrown, The Met’s annual festival of the finest English folk music it promises to be another great year.

We a great video premiere today from Boston-based Aerialists for their first musical release ‘Deep Toque’. The band features members from Canada, the US, and Scotland.

We rejoin Jonathan Day on the road for a series of guest posts written during his Atlantic Drifter launch tour as he arrives in Shanghai before heading to Beijng for the final part of his China tour.

There has never been a force of nature quite like the exhilarating juggernaut of bombastic, swaggering, buffed, multi-coloured big band folk that is Bellowhead and it is unlikely there ever will be again. Pandemonium presents highlights from Bellowhead’s incredible career.

With the reissue of Ryan Boldt’s ‘Broadside Ballads’ due out this month on Canadian indie label Big White Cloud Records we took the opportunity to chat to Ryan about his music, influences and future plans.

Bert Jansch’s eight studio album is re-issued by Earth Recordings, an overlooked gem from 1973 on which he is joined by an all-star cast including Danny Thompson, Tony Visconti, Mary Hopkin, Dave Mattacks, Ali Bain and more.

Whilst this album may seem like the vindicating culmination of the journey he’s been on, it’s actually just the start of what promises to be a very exciting and significant new arrival on the Americana scene.

Our Song of the Day comes via Caught by the River and a new audio vinyl companion to At Hawthorn Time, a brilliant novel by Melissa Harrison.

It’s true that Silver Season will partially reward those old hippies waiting for David Crosby to repeat his 70’s triumphs but Israel Nash has hit a lodestone that should satisfy anyone who likes their music somewhat blissed out and cosmic. Forget the acid, a few craft beers and a good listen will suffice.

I Dreamt I Was A Bird is a sterling example of all that is good about contemporary folk music in Britain today and looks set to establish Lucy Ward in her rightful place alongside the scene’s “big names”.

We have an exclusive video premiere, also our Song of the Day, from the young Canadian roots musician Kaia Kater. Watch the video for “When Sorrows Encompass Me Round”, which takes a line from an old fiddle tune song and reworks it into the story of a runaway slave.

Dave Rawlings has finally found time to schedule a follow-up to the 2009 Dave Rawlings Machine debut. Nashville Obsolete has been worth the wait with a stunning final track that is the album’s lynchpin.