Alex Gallacher

Taken from their latest album Tonebeds For Poetry and featuring the artwork of writer, illustrator and printmaker, Nick Hayes, Stick in the Wheel have shared a visually stunning and haunting video for “The Seafarer”, a 10th Century poem.

A Broken House is a moving documentary that tells the story of Mohamad Hafez who comes to the U.S. on a single-entry visa to study architecture, and, when he realizes that he can’t return to his home country, conjures home in his art.

Previously known as Rainy Day Woman, Hannah Pawson and Gabriel Wynne relaunch as Fritillaries and share new single ‘Working Late’, a brooding song of anger and frustration about the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.

We shine the spotlight on French duo Cocanha (Lila Fraysse & Caroline Dufau), who sing in Occitan, a beautifully poetic yet endangered language. Their latest album, Puput, is one of the most adventurous folk music albums we’ve heard in some time.

Much of this week’s show features DIY, outsider folk music. Featuring: Sutari, Jrpjej, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Sourdure, Stick in the Wheel, Burd Ellen, Angeline Morrison, Cocanha, Leyla McCalla, Aronde, Maurice Louca, Piers Faccini and the Khagaudzh Ensemble.

Featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, The Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee, watch the premiere of ‘Trouser Worrier’, the first single of We Are The Monsters.

We rewind the clock to 1974 and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Watch archive footage featuring Planxty, Loudon Wainwright III, Arlo Guthrie and more. From the canvas tents to the impromptu laid-back performances, this short video is dripping in gorgeous folk nostalgia.

We Are The Monsters is a new project featuring members of Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Monster Ceilidh Band and The Shee. The results promise to be boundary pushing and quite electrifying -a new celtic folk fusion sound.

This week’s Folk Show features some of the best in British Folk, including Ray Fisher, Jim Ghedi, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Simpson Cutting Kerr, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, Steve Tilston, Songs Of Separation, LAU, Eliza Carthy, Brìghde Chaimbeul & more.

ITMA take us behind the scenes of Lisa O’Neill’s research into Arthur Griffith, as she prepares for Treaty: Songs at the NCH in December – a Concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Watch South East London-based singer songwriter Luca Wilding in a mesmerising live performance of ‘Nobody Game’ from his new EP ‘Book of Fate’, which is out now.

Glenn Kimpton releases two new long-form improvised guitar pieces ‘He Thinks I am the Wisest Man’, recorded in a Bristol allotment on a beautiful late summer afternoon which have been mastered by Nick Jonah Davis. Don’t miss him at Friendly Records’ upcoming Winter Guitar Jamboree with C Joynes and Paul Bradley.