Best of 2025 Folk & Global Releases
By WTJU
As they have for the last several years, a few of the WTJU Folk & Global announcers look back at some of their favorite 2025 releases.
Click on the respective names below for the lists, and see videos from a few of the acts which made their way to multiple lists.
Alex Davis
Coco
David Soyka
Rebecca
Ed Griffin
Emily Gary
Goldfinger
John Bates
Michael Pillow
Pete
Peter Jones
Steve Kindig (Folk)
Steve Kindig (Global)
Some of the acts which came up again and again…
Lena Jonsson Trio/Folk Covers/Lena Jonsson Trio
Ethan Setiawan/Encyclopedia Mandolinnica/Adhyâropa Records
MOJNA/Mareld/Heilo
AJ Lee and Blue Summit/Cover to Cover VI/Signature Sounds
Joe K. Walsh/Trust and Love/Adhyâropa Records
Brad Kolodner/Old Growth/Brad Kolodner
Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert /Volume 4/Dead Reckoning
Joseph Decosimo/Fiery Gizzard/Dear Life Records
Wes Corbett/Drift/Adhyâropa Records
Caitlin Canty/Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove/Tone Tree Music
The Onlies/You Climb the Mountain/The Onlies
