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New doom folk band ØXN, featuring Radie Peat (Lankum), John’ Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler (Percolator), and Katie Kim announce debut album CYRM and two live dates at The Sugar Club, Dublin – Presented by Enthusiastic Eunuch and Foggy Notions.

Karine Polwart is back in the company of award-winning composer and sound designer Pippa Murphy and pianist and composer Dave Milligan on ‘Seek The Light’, a new EP and BBC Radio 4 series that combines a love of science, history, folklore and the natural world. 

Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi and East London’s Stick In The Wheel deliver a visceral remix of What Will Become of England, marking a repeated mood present up and down the land. An antidote to, or rather an affirmation of, the state of England’s politics.

Taken from folk singing legend Alice Gerrard’s forthcoming new album “Sun to Sun”, listen to “You and Me”, a simple, refreshing reminder to treasure the love in our lives. She is joined by Reed Stutz, Tatiana Hargreaves, DaShawn Hickman and Hasee Ciacco.

Edinburgh-based folk/old-time quartet Wayward Jane, featuring Dan Abrahams, Sam Gillespie, Rachel Petyt and Michael Starkey, announce their third album ‘The Flood’, and premiere their video for ‘Crossing Over Water’, a song Rachel wrote in response to hearing about migrants trying to move to safer places.

Canadian singer-songwriter Jerry Leger announces his new studio album ‘Donlands’ and shares the single and video “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” – “The video was filmed at the Imperial Pub in Toronto, which has been there since the ’40s and is one of the few remaining pubs of its type in the big city.”

Watch the beautiful animated video for ‘Thistle’, in which visual artist Alemşah Fırat translates Sophie Janna’s song, about hope in times of climate change, into a magical realistic narrative.

Georgia Shackleton announces her debut solo album ‘Harry’s Seagull’, and shares lead single and video ‘Windy Old Weather’ – a traditional folk song popular within the East Anglian fishing community but not so widely found elsewhere.

Our Song of the Day comes from Niamh Bury. Watch her performing her debut single, Beehive, live in Phoenix Park, Dublin. It’s not just her balletic vocals that stay with you after hearing this song, but also her tender and deeply poetic lyrics.

Our latest Track by Track comes from Manx blues guitarist and singer Davy Knowles with his new album ‘If I should Wander’. While musically, it is a departure from the music he’s best known for; it’s also his most striking album to date.

‘Arhoolie Records Down Home Music’ is a visual storytelling celebration of American roots music through unseen and newly scanned photographs by Chris Strachwitz, the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. The book also features a substantial 20,000-word essay by award-winning music journalist Joel Selvin.

From a ‘BBC In Concert’ recording, made on 4th January 1971 and featuring Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, watch Pentangle performing ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’, from their ‘Sweet Child’ album.