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Win tickets to see pentangle with the original line-up of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox! At The Royal Festival Hall on Monday 1st August!

The following video features Dervish playing ‘Swallow’s Tail’ at their 21st birthday celebrations in Sligo May 2010.

Balto recently released a video for the track ‘Kirov Factory’ taken from their debut album ‘October’s Road’. The live band footage is from an appearance at Arlene’s Grocery which is located in NYC’s trendy Lower East Side in what was once a Puerto Rican bodega. Enjoy!

In this week’s Friday Folk Music Club we have Emily and the Woods, Sam Brookes, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Karine Polwart, Battlefield band, Andy Irvine, The Webb Sisters and Walking with Ghosts. Enjoy!

We recently ran two competitions for Mechanical Brides Album Launch and a very generous Folk by the Oak giveaway which the sponsor, Casillero del Diablo, offered a further four pairs of tickets which means there are even more winners.

Welcome back to the Friday Folk Music Club. This week we have videos from: Jason Steel, James Yorkston & Big Eyes Family Players, Sharon Shannon, Townes Van Zandt, Julie Fowlis, Nathaniel Rateliff, John Martyn , A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Nancy Elizabeth! Plus audio tracks from The Owl Service and downloads from Spiers and Boden, David Gibb, Cathal Clohessy and Eamonn Costello, Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick and The …

We’ve a pair of tickets to give away for Mechanical Bride’s album launch show at St Giles In The Fields next wednesday (20th July). Living With Ants is Mechanical Bride’s debut album. It sees her song writing blossom into fully formed techni-colour flourishes.

Win tickets to this year’s Folk by the Oak at Hatfield House on Sunday 24th July plus wine from festival sponsor Casillero del Diablo! The line-up this year includes Seth Lakeman, Show of Hands, Drever, McCusker, Woomble with Heidi Talbot, Bella Hardy, Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman and Tyde!

Welcome to the Friday Folk Music Club when we feature videos, tunes and the occasional free folk music track that all convey the spirit of Folk Radio UK. In our first we feature: The Watersons, Sea of Bees, James Vincent McMorrow, John Fahey, Tim Eriksen, Spirit Family Reunion and Lisa Hannigan. Plus free tracks from Lucy Ward and Southern Tenant Folk Union!

Bellowhead put on a cracking performance at Glastonbury and pleased the crowd no end. Watch them perform New York Girls below.

The following video of James Irwin and his band was shot by ASTW in the woods of Oka, Quebec… James writes twice a day—songs, poems and stories, first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon, always with a coffee.

Here it is again for those of you that missed the incredible performance of Seasick Steve and guest bassist John Paul Jones performing a track from his forthcoming new album ‘You Can´t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks’ live on Later with Jools Holland

A noted highlight of the annual MusicNow festival weekend was a collaboration between Megafaun, Fight The Big Bull, Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten called Sound Of The South, re-imaginings of the songs recorded by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax in his early travels.

Sin Fang Bous is a Project by Sindri Már Sigfússon from Iceland, who also founded “Seabear”. While Seabear is focussed on folky music, Sin Fang Bous is Sindri’s playground for his more experimental songs.

Watch this latest session of Josh T Pearson from La Blogotheque. The results were beautiful and somehow very suited to the blind faith of the Josh T pearson of today, he seemed incredibly at home on boulevard de Belleville.

Another new video has been released for PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake. Watch the video for Bitter Branches below and read Seamus Murphy’s comments on its making.

Folk Radio UK in association with the Southbank Centre are giving away two pairs of tickets to the The Great Folk Jukebox which will be held at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 7th May.

Watch: Alexander – A Million Years, directed by Benjamin Kutsko. I knew it would be something very different but this really clever.