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We recently caught up with Emily Barker who has just released her new album, Almanac with her all girl band, The Red Clay Halo. They are attracting more attention now then ever before making them a sought after act for festivals this year.

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks chronicles Haywood’s journey around Northern Scotland, his songs absorb the land, it’s people and wildlife. What may at first appear quirky becomes incredibly well rooted and natural. What took five years to create can never be done again. So we had to speak to him…

Weaving the Land is the first in a new series of mixes from Folk Radio UK. The mixes explore traditional music and its connection to the land. Whether it is recalling memories of it or the longing for return to the homeland. The first mix opens to Irish poet Seamus Heaney and features Liam O’flynn, Kathryn Tickell, Kris Drever, Dick Gaughan and more.

With the release of her debut album Company of Ghosts in spring 2010, Lizzie’s reputation as a captivating new voice in British folk has continued to grow. It is with great pleasure that we present Lizzie in session at Folk Radio UK

For our fifth frukie session we have Lawry Joseph Tilbury, better known as birdengine who has just released his first full length album the crooked mile. birdengine will also be touring in February.

Kate Stables is the staple of folk project This is the Kit, who, alongside long-time collaborator Jesse D. Vernon, perform ordinarily as a two-piece splitting their time between Bristol and Paris. Initially noticed in 2006 thanks to a Folk Off compilation featuring other nu-weird-folksters Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan, This is the Kit were hailed as a refreshing British folk act; with BBC Radio’s Huw Stephens referring to Kate as …

The moulettes were one of the highlights at this year’s Open House Festival. With the release of their self-titled debut album this year we caught up with them to talk about their music and influences.

Kerry Fowler’s solo EP, Dance of the Selkie, is a fine introduction to a promising singer songwriter who’s garnering some much deserved praise for her well-crafted and atmospheric ballads.

It’s been a while since I sat down and did a mix. This mix was inspired by music that I listen to when I’m either out walking across woods and fields or working outside during the winter.

Formerly the project of Luke Temple, Brooklyn’s Here We Go Magic has now expanded into a five-piece, and since signing to record label Secretly Canadian just a year ago they have gone on to tour with the likes of Grizzly Bear and The Walkmen, as well as receiving praise from none other than Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, who stated of their Glastonbury performance, that it was the best thing he’d witnessed all weekend.

Timber Timbre, the moniker of Taylor Kirk, is the rich onomatopoeic term given to what he describes as his “very woody sounding” early recordings. A Canadian musician whose music has been described as “swampy, ragged blues” both “cinematic and spooky” the solo project has now expanded to comprise an additional two members, violinist Mika Posen and Simon Trottier on lap-steel and auto harp. I got to catch up with Kirk and co at their label, Full Time Hobby’s offices for a …

Rachael Dadd is seated onstage at North London’s The Luminaire, arranged on a table beside her is a collection of crockery and three sets of chopsticks. It is an interesting experimental set up that I’m lucky enough to watch blossom into a spontaneous, twinkling performance of a new song that she tells me is inspired by her husband’s cooking of rice.