Celebrating 2025's Folk Album of the Year
The best folk and acoustic music. Mark speaks to the winner of Folk Album of the Year.
The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond.
Mark speaks to the first ever winner of Folk Album of the Year, which was announced at Rochdale Town Hall last night.
The new Folk Album of the Year Award has been established by the charity Sound Roots. It celebrates folk, roots and acoustic albums made in Britain and Ireland. The 2025 shortlist included:
All Smiles Tonight by Poor Creature
Auchies Spikkin' Auchie by Grace Stewart-Skinner
Curlew's Cry by Barry Kerr
Shimli by Cynefin
Teeth Of Time by Joshua Burnside
Teleology by Peggy Seeger
Tomorrow Held by Spafford Campbell
Turnstone by Gigspanner Big Band
Varipasi by Edith WeUtonga
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Robert Plant
As I Roved Out (feat. Suzi Dian)
- Saving Grace.
- Nonesuch.
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Dolores Keane & John Faulkner
Galway Bay
- Sail Óg Rua.
- Gael-Linn.
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VRï
Taflu Rwdins
- Tŷ Ein Tadau.
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VOCES8
Underneath The Stars
- Eventide.
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Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess
Hiring Fair
- Gold Has Worn Away.
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Barry Kerr
The Curlew's Cry
- Curlew's Cry.
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Barry Kerr
Three Thousand Rivers Deep (feat. Cathy Jordan)
- Curlew's Cry.
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Fairport Convention
Walk Awhile
- Full House.
- Island Records.
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Kris Drever
Change
- Doing This For Love.
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Josienne Clarke
Katie Cruel
- Single.
- Self Release.
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Leveret
Hemp Dressers / Wakefield Hunt
- Lost Measures.
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Andrew Cadie
Boulder
- Flooding The Ocean.
Broadcast
- Wed 18 Mar 202621:00BBC Radio 2
