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Blue Rose Code unveils the first cut from his forthcoming new album, The Water Of Leith. ‘Love Is…’ – a duet with the multi-award winning folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, Julie Fowlis, talks of ideals and anticipation.

Folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey release new video for ‘Clean White Sheets’, a song commemorating Nellie Spindler, a nurse from Wakefield in Yorkshire who died this day, one hundred years ago.

Ian Randall Thornton’s sound echoes with a history beyond his years, listen in full to his forthcoming self-released album Lineage. “At its heart, Lineage is about family… and the process of sifting through our cultural and familial inheritance, seeking to honor and sustain what is beautiful and beneficial, while uprooting what is hindering and unhealthy.”

EB=MC² is the new album from British folk legend Michael Chapman and one of Israel’s most successful singer songwriters, Ehud Banai. “A genuine piece of life captured by the flexibility of words and melody.”

Scott Hirsch and Michael Chapman will share the same bill for the first time in September with a series of UK dates. Both artists cast a mercurial eye on their art-form, moving the primitive guitar into realms of blues, jazz and the avant garde.

Song of the Day comes from the Commoners Choir who are dedicated to singing about the world around us, its inequalities and injustices, and their (4-part vocal harmony) opposition to such injustice. This is dedicated to the mass trespass of 1932.

Sam Brookes has unveiled a new live video which offers the first glimpse of his forthcoming single Always Will. The session was recorded in an abandoned canal tunnel in Gloucestershire which is over 2 miles in length – meaning for some incredible spine tingling reverb!

We celebrate the Fleadh with Pólca 4, a high energy group specialising in music from the West Kerry region, guaranteed to get the foot tapping and the blood flowing a great night is always on the card when these boys are in town.

For our Song of the Day we head to The Royal in Dungworth, Sheffield where Jack Rutter performs the folk song Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War which features on his forthcoming solo debut album Hills.

Fresh from their sell out performances of The Lock In ‘Christmas Carol’, the Breaking Tradition Dance Company return to Ye Olde Fighting Cocks for a comical new version of their critically acclaimed folk and hip hop dance show ‘The Lock In’! We have two pairs of tickets to give away.

On September 8th, Tom Russell will release his brand-new studio album, “Folk Hotel” (Proper Records). To celebrate Tom has put together a special playlist of songs he’d play at his imaginary Folk Hotel. Songs from Bob Dylan to Finbar Furey, it’s a great playlist. Listen and read about why he chose each song.

Seven projects will create new music rooted in the English folk music tradition following the latest round of funding awards by England’s national development agency for the folk arts. Including Spiro’s Alex Vann, Emily Mae Winters and more.