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Jim Causley could croon the phone book and it would still be worth a listen. But with this latest release he has put his pipes to much better use, setting the verses of visionary Cornish poet Jack Clemo to soaring and often profoundly moving music.

We talk in-depth to Belinda of O’Hooley & Tidow, our Artists of the Month, about the making of ‘Shadows’. Belinda reveals the inspiration behind the album, personal highlights, challenges, as well as exciting plans for the future.

Watch the video premiere for ‘Work’, a new track from Dan Whitehouse taken from his forthcoming new album ‘That’s Where I Belong’. The album features B.J.Cole and Folk Radio UK favourite Jess Morgan.

Aborigine singer-songwriter Archie Roach is best known for his intensely emotional single “Took the Children Away.” A song which featured on his 1990 debut album “Charcoal Lane”. The song went on to be the first song to achieve an international Human Rights Achievement Award following the attention it brought to the world of the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from their families. In the intervening years, …

With Grammy award-winner Larry Campbell on production, The Stray Birds return with a fuller sounding album and their first fully collaborative songwriting effort. Flaming brilliant!

We have the immense pleasure of sharing with you the new video from Dublin-based band Lynched for Lullaby which featured on their debut album Cold Old Fire. The video is visually stunning and was directed and animated by Eoin Whelehan from Dublin.

FINALE was recorded live during the 2008 Pentangle tour and sees the original line-up revisit their classic repertoire. The beautifully recorded and packaged 2CD set captures the band in a series of scintillating performances.

A California-based singer-songwriter Joel Rafael has been writing great music for over 50 years. We caught up with Joel at Newport Folk Festival, where he was playing “For Pete’s Sake,” a stage with programming in honor of Pete Seeger.

The Private Press is a very interesting collection of music, much of which might have been lost but for the efforts of the Tompkins Square team – Michael Klausman, Brooks Rice and Josh Rosenthal should be commended for their work in compiling both the album and its informative liner notes.

Rob heads to London’s Slaughtered Lamb for a live preview performance of Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker’s new album ‘Overnight’ due for release on Rough trade records on 14 Oct. 2016

To mark the release of her new Four Songs EP on Fledgling Records, Anne Briggs talks to Folk Radio UK in a rare and in-depth interview in which she recalls the folk scene of the sixties and the time she spent with the travelling community.

Blair Dunlop is delighted to announce he will be opening for former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden on selected dates of Jon’s fourteen date November 2016 UK solo tour.

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