Sam Brookes has released a new video for Crazy World and You from his album Kairos. There is some beautiful choreography which just serves to intensify the emotion Sam creates with that great voice of his.

The Lilac Time release their Ninth Album ‘No Sad Songs’, an album that is charged with an uplifting, buoyant vision of life. Given its April release, a quote TS Eliot quote fromThe Waste Land seems appropriate – “ breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” Go gather.

We have a great track premiere today from Barna Howard with Indiana Rose taken from his new forthcoming album Quite A Feelin’, out May 18th via Loose Music.

Meg Baird will release a new studio album on 22nd June titled ‘Don’t Weigh Down the Light’, you can hear the first track unveiled from the album entitled ‘Counterfeiters’.

Our Song of the Day is from acoustic instrumental four piece Spiro with their latest video for Burning Bridge as featured on their forthcoming new album “Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow” which will be released on 13 April 2015 on Real World Records.

Watch the latest video from Ryley Walker for Sweet Satisfaction taken from his latest album Primrose Green. The spirit of John Martyn is very present on this track. Ryley kicks off his European tour this month including several dates in the UK.

In the final video interview series for the new album ‘Murmurs’ from Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr, Martin introduces his 1935/36 Gibson L-OO, a 1960’s De Armond pickup and a 1958 Magnatone amplifier. The combination is a sound unlike any other as he demonstrates on The Boston Smuggler.

Karl Culley’s fourth offering is, as the name suggests, a stripped-down affair but his clever, intricate guitar picking creates the illusion that there is more than simply the singer and his guitar.

This June ten Scottish and English folk musicians will head to the west coast Isle of Eigg to make an album together that reflects on the issue of ‘separation’ in its many forms, through traditional song. They include Karine Polwart, Eliza Carthy, Mary Macmaster, Hannah James and more.

Rural Music is a collection of songs that exudes contentment. Absorbing lyrics, eloquent story-telling and a thoroughly engaging sound create enough sunshine to thaw those snowy hilltops. Seek out this album from Ash Hunter , and get your summer off to a good start. You won’t regret it.

In the first of our two part exclusive interview we take Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman back to their musical origins. They provide us with an exclusive and fascinating insight into their early days and folk supergroup Equation. Kathryn and Sean are our Artists of the Month for April.

Although not well known outside of their North East London stomping grounds, The Persecuted have the potential to attract far wider audiences already tuned in to the likes of Turner, Chris T-T and Beans On Toast.