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Shrewsbury Folk Festival announces a further wave of artists for 2023, including Joachim Cooder, Moya Brennan, The Dreamer’s Circus, The Hanging Stars, Reg Meuross and more.

Songwriting and marriage partners Brett and Rennie Sparks aka The Handsome Family announce their eleventh studio album, Hollow, and share the video for album opener ‘Joseph,’ a song that began life as a scream in the night.

Freda D’Souza announces her debut EP Windowledge. Watch the accompanying video to the title track – written at age 19, the song sees its writer on the precipice of both a new phase of life and an incipient, all-consuming relationship.

Calexico’s 20th Anniversary Edition of Feast of Wire is out now. Read about their touring experience; watch their original press video from 2003, and stream ‘Live at China Theatre Stockholm’ – 10 tracks recorded live in Sweden on the 2004 Feast of Wire European tour.

Today sees the release of Dharma, the stunning new EP from Samana (Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett), exploring mythic landscapes, forgotten memories, and the innate search for freedom and peace.

Claddagh Records have announced their first signing in 18 Years of ØXN featuring Radie Peat (Lankum), John ‘Spud’ Murphy and Eleanor Myler (Percolator) and Katie Kim. Their first single, Love Henry, will be released next month.

Buck Meek announces his third album Haunted Mountain – exploring love and soulfulness and featuring co-writes with Jolie Holland, including the lead single and title track. Watch the accompanying video.

On June 16th Tompkins Square are releasing the boxset Rick Deitrick – The Unguitarist: Complete Works, 1969-2022. Listen to the previously unreleased track ‘Free and Easy’, also our tune of the Day.

Indie folk singer-songwriter Ivan Moult is set to release his third album “Songs From Severn Grove” tomorrow on Welsh label Bubblewrap Records. You can hear it in full and read Ivan’s Track-by-Track guide on Folk Radio today.

Northgate Folk Festival is a new experimental and contemporary folk all-dayer in the heart of Chester delivering a refreshingly original lineup including Brìghde Chaimbeul, Shovel Dance Collective, The Gentle Good, Toria Wooff, Jacken Elswyth, Calum Gilligan, Bobby Lee, Jennifer Reid, Milkweed and Robbie Caswell-Jones.

Bobby Lee is back with Endless Skyways, his third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Watch the video for his woozy swamp rock ‘Acid Grassland’, also our Tune of the Day.

Sam Burton shares his inner-Walden on ‘I Don’t Blame You’, taken from his upcoming album ‘Dear Departed’. “…it’s so important for a writer to have an inner world they can go back to to reconnect with themselves and this song revealed that place to me.”