We have a special video premiere and Song of the Day for you from Thea Gilmore with ‘Coming Back To You’ from her 15th album ‘Ghosts & Graffiti’, an album which is part new, part retrospective. Watch it here.

We have a special feature interview with the ingenious Thomas Traux, currently on tour in the UK. Plus a premiere of his new video ‘ I’ve Got To Know’ taken from his new album ‘Jetstream Sunset’. Try and see him live if you can, he’s quite unlike anyone else.

Upcoming Irish band The Young Folk whose last release was a Featured Albums of the Month on FRUK have a new album coming. Here’s a sneak peek with this special acoustic video for ‘A Song About Wolves’, a song from their as yet unnamed new album.

‘High Rise’ is an album of wondrous beauty from start to finish, with pieces that combine jazz, blues and classical with Scottish roots music. The work of Scottish fiddler and composer David Grubb this is a superb, confident soundtrack to a bustling city, as observed by a visitor.

The Unthanks are to play Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage with an extended ‘orchestra’, conducted by Charles Hazlewood. This really is the icing on the cake for ‘Mount the Air’, for what has been one of the most highly praised albums of 2015 so far.

We have a double treat for you today from Urban Folk Quartet with a Song and a Tune of the Day. The very first on Folk Radio UK which maybe says more about how excited we are about their new album ‘The Escape’ which is out May 1st. Catch them on Tour from May.

Kate Rusby works her magic once again at the Civic Theatre, Chelmsford – an invitation to step outside of your own world and to join hers for a brief moment, to become part of the great tradition that has seen songs passed to her from her parents and from her and Damien to their children. A superb evening that our reviewer Paul shares here.

We catch up with Atlantan sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, best known as Larkin Poe who are back in the UK this Summer on a huge tour. Read our in-depth interview / photo feature in which they talk about their latest album, songwriting, life on the road and their love for the UK.

Interloper is the latest release from Tom Kitching on which he is joined by some well known musicians to define the current state of the English tradition. This is a collection of cracking tunes with intelligent, absorbing arrangements. You can’t go wrong with this one.

We have a real treat for you all today with a video premiere from Canadian folk trio, Good Lovelies. In The Morning features on their eagerly anticipated new album, ‘Burn The Plan’ due for release on June 15, 2015, followed by a UK tour. There’s no doubt that there is a new spirit of adventure afoot.

Don’t miss the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards this Wednesday, we’ll be there meeting and enjoying performances from many of the artists we’ve featured over the past year including Loudon Wainwright III, Kate Rusby, Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker and many more. Find out more about what’s in store for the evening here.

Our Song of the Day is rather a tune, from the mother and daughter Welsh duo Delyth & Angharad Jenkins who play under the title of DnA. Watch their video for Brandy Cove.