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Today, Toby Hay & David Ian Roberts are releasing a new EP titled ‘CAPEL Y GRAIG – Improvisations’. For the month of May, all proceeds go to Tŷ Hafan, the hospice for children in Wales.

Watch the new video teaser for Fay Hield’s new album Wrackline, set for release in September. Fay is accompanied on the new album by a stellar cast of some of the finest folk musicians working today; Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney, Ben Nicholls and Ewan MacPherson.

Dublin’s The Bonny Men reveal music video – Visceral movement, animal imagery and wild traditional music collide in this piece that creeps and crawls its way under the skin.

To celebrate the release of John Doyle’s new album ‘The Path of Stones’ we have a special lockdown session from the man himself performing two tunes from the new album. Enjoy.

Taken from his latest album ‘Forever Just Beyond’, Clem Snide has shared a live performance with Scott Avett of album track ‘Easy’. That this album came into being is something of a miracle which makes this session all the more special.

Watch the video for the new single from Our Man In The Field (AKA Alexander Ellis). It Was Ever So explores vocation and identity; it’s about the men and women who lost their jobs when London’s oldest fire station was closed in 2014. It’s out on May the 4th to coincide with International Firefighters’ Day.

Grammy-nominated frame drum specialist, flautist and composer, Marla Leigh Goldstein pays homage to the ancient lineage of women frame drummers in Rhythms of Tof Miriam. Watch the accompanying exquisite video which premieres on Folk Radio today.

Join us this Sunday 3 May at 10:30 am for the next Hudson Records Listening Club and listen to ’Laws of Motion’ in its entirety with commentary and insights from Karine Polwart, Inge Thomson and Steven Polwart.

Last week, Jack Sharp released his full-length debut as a solo artist ‘Good Times Older’, watch him performing the title track live – a subtle examination of nostalgia, memory and loss.

Darren Hayman returns with his new album Home Time on 22 May via Fika Recordings, an autobiographical album about breakups. Watch his latest video for ‘I Was Thinking About You”.

River Lea signs John Francis Flynn, a singer and multi-instrumentalist from Dublin whose work centres around traditional and folk material from Ireland and further afield. Watch him performing Shallow Brown.

Taylor Ashton and Aoife O’Donovan should have been touring together, they even had a final cover song sorted. Instead, they’ve released it as a single, watch them performing Townes Van Zandt’s ‘Loretta’.