Born of Boston’s new acoustic scene, now Nashville-based, all-gal Grammy nominees Della Mae deliver bare-knuckle bluegrass chops to test any boys’ mettle, while compositionally keeping company with the likes of Punch Brothers, the Lumineers, and Hurray for the Riff Raff. After ending a two-year timeout with 2019’s The Butcher Shoppe EP, the quartet are soon to release their fourth album.

On his latest solo record As the Crow Files, Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist Teilhard Frost – best known as one-third of old-time favourites Sheesham, Lotus and Son – continues his joyous communion with Appalachian tradition, in songs and tunes vividly evoking their British, Celtic and Scandinavian ancestry.