Our Song of the Day is The Devil’s Nine Questions which is performed by Appalachian ballad-singing duo Anna and Elizabeth, they are on tour in the UK from May. Their Show is a captivating mix of ballads, foot-stomping dance tunes, stories and visual art. They also use what are called crankies to illustrate the song ballads which you can find out about here.

All good things must come to an end and so The Full English collective featuring some of the biggest stars on the English Folk music scene will head out on their final tour in May. But what a great job they’ve done of promoting the digital archive. Watch a new documentary about the project and a TEDx talk by Fay Hield: Why aren’t we all folk singers?

We have a video premiere today from Cove Hithe who hail from the gently wild Suffolk coast. Watch their new animated video for How Wild the Wind Blows, a cover of a song by Molly Drake, the mother of Nick Drake.

As part of our ongoing coverage of Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin award winning song writer and story teller David Gibb shares his thoughts on Day Two. A visit to the Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans, a lecture from Wales’ answer to Cecil Sharp, Roy Saer and you can watch them all performing Lord Randal.

In our latest Photo-Interview feature we talk to Blue Rose Code who’s busy touring before heading to the studio in May to record the next record. “Then for the next six months I’m going to sit on my arse on the beach in Bournemouth and read…and just be actually.”

One of the most remarkable vocal harmony trios ‘The Devil’s Interval’ feat. Lauren McCormick, Emily Portman & Jim Causley reunite for mini tour and Sidmouth Folkweek. Watch them warming up for the tour as they perform Silver Dagger.

Emily Portman will release her new album in June titled Coracle. It promises to be her most ambitious release to date. Produced by Andy Bell it features featuring her regular trio of Rachel Newton & Lucy Farrell as well as a number of guest musicians from the world of folk music including Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney.

Richard Thompson will release Still, an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 29, 2015 via Proper Records. Still was recorded in a two-story rehearsal loft in Chicago over the course of just nine days with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at the helm, backed by several longtime players from both Thompson’s and Tweedy’s bands.

As part of our ongoing coverage of Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin which is now underway, we have the first guest blog from Elan Rhys, the lead vocalist of folk group Plu. Day one included a performance on Radio 4’s Front Row programme and research at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House.

I quite literally stumbled across Three Pilgrims this morning and was immediately taken by their studio demo of ‘Don’t Look Down’, so much so it just had to be the Song of the Day on Folk Radio UK. They run a weekly residence at The Eagle on Ladbroke Grove.

On Annabelle Chvostek’s latest release ‘Be The Media’ she’s gone back to her indie roots. She may have described her earlier album Resilience as “a big complicated hug”, due to its warm enveloping nature, but ‘Be The Media’, despite initial appearances of spiky acerbity, turns out to be just as enveloping in its own way.

The Demon Barbers have revealed the first in a series of videos about the making of their latest album and stage production Disco At The Tavern. It includes an insight from Damien into his early beginnings on the folk club scene and his influences ranging from Cordelia’s Dad to Peter Bellamy.