Alex Gallacher

We begin a look back at 2020 – featuring Brigid Mae Power, Bob Dylan, Herman Düne, Joshua Burnell, Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom, Darren Hayman, Alex Rex, Alasdair Roberts, Elle Osborne, Cinder Well, Damien Jurado, Bill Callahan and more.

Here are our Top 100 Folk Music Albums of 2020, selected from over 400 Album Reviews published on Folk Radio UK.

Jack Badcock (of Dallahan) delivers a powerful new single with “Our World” which looks at the failings of our society while acknowledging the power our species has to determine our future.

This is a duo you don’t want to miss. Taken from their self-titled forthcoming album, watch Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno performing ‘Will You’ – This is golden from start to finish and all points in between.

An extra-long Folk Show featuring The Magpie Arc, Kris Drever, Afro Celt Sound System, Macmaster/Hay, Andy Irvine, Blue Rose Code, Eddi Reader, Eamon O’Leary, Ensemble Ériu, Jim Ghedi, Kaela Rowan, Leveret, LAU, Ana Silvera, Ewan McLennan, Catfish Keith and more.

Celebrating 15 Years of Reveal Records label “Home Is Where The Art Is” is the first Reveal compilation including Joan As Police Woman, Kris Drever, LAU, Boo Hewerdine and more. We talk to label founder and owner Tom Rose.

Featuring new music from LAU, Rachel Walker, The Deadlians, Sally Anne Morgan, Eoghan & Ultan, Sam Amidon, Sean & Michael Gavin, The Haar plus Lankum, Skipper’s Alley, The Bonny Men, The Mary Wallopers, Cinder Well, Varo and more.

Featuring new music from Laura Fell, Faeland, Juni Habel, Niamh Regan, Sam Burton, Sam Amidon, LAU, Edgelarks, Martin Simpson, The Rheingans Sisters, POOLS, Cunning Folk, Buck Curran, Gwenifer Raymond, Ida Lune & more.

This Week’s Folk Show features Ida Lune, James Yorkston, Sam Amidon, Stables, Karen Matheson, Leyla McCalla, Ross Ainslie, Shooglenifty, Jenna Moynihan, Martin Simpson, The Rheingans Sisters, Matthew James Noone & more.

David Boulter’s ‘Yarmouth’ takes you back in time as you step off the train and revisit a seaside town of your youth. Can you truly recapture the past? Boulter comes pretty close…

Glenn Kimpton and Paul Bradley (Three Cane Whale) share their thoughts on their first recording as ‘raga’merikana’ – spacious, reflective, modal, humble, raga-like, gently Americana-like and always improvised.

Catriona McKay’s new solo album ‘Love in Secret’ has been worth the wait. A bold, innovational and inspiring album, one of the best of 2020, filled with humour, honesty and vibrancy.