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.

In July this year Rosanne Cash heads to the UK touring as a duo with husband and sideman John Leventhal for dates which include London’s Union Chapel and SummerTyne Americana Festival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Best Group in the BBC Folk Awards this year – The Young’uns. Watch their powerful new video for The Streets of Lahore, a song they wrote about Farzana Parveen who in May last year was murdered by 4 members of her own family in broad daylight outside the High Court of Lahore for marrying without their consent.

Sidmouth FolkWeek has another great lineup this year including winners of the recent BBC Folk Awards with Nancy Kerr and Sam Sweeney. Also amongst their extensive lineup are some wonderful folk music stars who performed at the Awards: Julie Fowlis and Kate Rusby. Get your tickets quick as Early Bird reductions run until end of this month.

We get the first thoughts from Elan Rhys and David Gibb on Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin which will be exploring and celebrating in the shared history of England and Wales. We will have more from them this week as the project progresses.

Neither folk nor funk, blues or prog, If I Had Wings is a delicate, sophisticated cocktail of flavours that meet the rim of the glass just so. Stirred, not shaken. “This is the album I always wanted to make but never dared to” says Philips, we’re glad he did.

It’s two years since Manx trio Barrule released their debut album with the declared intention of bringing the music of the Isle of Man to everyone’s attention. Their follow-up, Manannan’s Cloak, is more varied and even more energetic and appealing than the first. If Barrule is yet to enter your musical life, open the door right now.

Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan head out on tour this month under the combined tour banner of I’m with Her. Dates include London’s Union Chapel on 28 April. It promises to be a great tour as Sara declares “very time we play together we are learning how to be a supportive, explosive, good band.”

Our Song of the Day is a track premiere from London indie-folk duo Worry Dolls. Be So Cruel is taken from their new EP Burden which will be released on 8 June 2015. Don’t miss them on tour from May through the Summer.

This year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards was one of the best there’s been. We were there on the night taking in the celebrations, one which was fun, emotional and entertaining. Proof that the folk scene is very much in good health.

In a new project titled Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin, some of our finest contemporary folk musicians will be exploring and celebrating in the shared history and culture of two nations, England and Wales. Feat: Lucy Ward, David Gibb, Elan Rhys, Patrick Rimes, Georgia Ruth and Archie Churchill-Moss. Over the coming week FRUK will be bringing you a unique insight.