Guardian Music — Cherry Hinton Hall, CambridgeTo Cambridge, for its restorative annual showcase of ancient songs about death and despair. This year's lineup is a curious one, lacking some of the scene's up-and-coming stars, such as Jackie Oates, Sam Lee and Jim Moray... more info

Guardian Music — (ECC)The folk collective overcome "difficult third album" syndrome with bravura playing and inventive songwriting. Once an unaccompanied Jackie Oates has delivered the antique murder ballad The Captain's Apprentice, the band concentrate on original c... more info

Guardian Music — Veterans dominate this year as June Tabor and Oysterband win four prizes, including best album and folk singer of the yearBritish folk has enjoyed an exciting resurgence during the last few years, owing to younger artists brimming with energy and ima... more info

Guardian Music — Jackie Oates may be the new face of folk, but her sound is rooted in her past, writes Jude RogersOn the wall of an Oxford front room, above a harmonium and a fiddle, you'll find a popart print of Jackie O. At first, you think you're looking at John F... more info

Guardian Music — (Folk Police)It starts with gently edgy backing and sturdy vocals from Fay Hield, and then suddenly the traditional favourite Spencer the Rover is transformed, with a startling, epic wash of sound in which trumpets are matched against pedal steel gui... more info

The Telegraph — Saturnine is a fine, original and quirky folk collection from rising star Jackie Oates. more info

Guardian Music — (ECC/Proper) When Jackie Oates released her Hyperboreans album two years ago, I suggested she was becoming a new folk celebrity. She now works with Cecil Sharp Project, has joined Imagined Village and, after helping record a series of folk/bird song ... more info

Guardian Music — Our music team pick the songs or albums, old or new, they just can't turn offSonny Clark Sonny Clark's Conception Sonny Clark (pictured), who died of a heroin overdose in 1963 at the age of 31, was Blue Note's house pianist in the late 50s, and in o... more info

Guardian Music — Cecil Sharp House, LondonThis was a tough brief. Eight folk musicians spent a week in the countryside writing a concept work about the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp. He may have played a crucial role in the revival of the genre in the early 20th ce... more info

Guardian Music — (Folk Police Recordings)It's been 10 years since the death of singer and songwriter Peter Bellamy, but he's rightly back in fashion, as shown by this new treatment of his settings for Rudyard Kipling songs, featuring a Who's Who of the new British fo... more info