Core News — “Iggy serves you up a sonic cocktail to start the weekend off including tracks by Tijuana Panthers, Kate Tempest, Jim Moray, Michael Kiwanuka and Goat. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spirit since th... more info

Guardian Music — Another great folk festival joins the rich range already thriving in the north west. Helen Nugent prelimsIn a world where teen heartthrobs, rap artists and reality show winners dominate the charts, it is heartening to learn that more than 300 folk fe... more info

Guardian Music — Cecil Sharp House, LondonNic Jones, a giant of 1970s folk, has become an almost mythical figure to a new generation of musicians who draw inspiration from his work, notably his seminal 1980 album Penguin Eggs. Jones's career was wrecked by a serious ... more info

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 — (NIAG)Nine years ago, Jim Moray startled the folk scene by treating the well-worn Early One Morning to a barrage of electric guitar and programming. Since then he has moved towards a more traditional acoustic approach, while developing his skills as ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Widely regarded as one of the most inventive artists working in traditional folk music today, after four ground-breaking and award-winning albums Jim Moray finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK and hailed as a pivotal influ... 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 — 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 — To some, Cecil Sharp is a folk hero, to others, an arch-manipulator. So, given a week to write a song suite about him, what would today's folk stars come up with?It sounds like some hideous TV reality show dreamed up by Simon Cowell and Andrew Lloyd ... more info

Guardian Music — (Unearthed/One Little Indian)Paul Sartin is best-known for his fiddle and oboe work with that triumphant folk big band Bellowhead, but he has spent much of the past 15 years working around the British folk clubs with accordion-player Paul Hutchinson ... more info