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Don’t miss Normafest – a wonderful weekend in celebration of all things to do with folk music legend Norma Waterson in early January. Featuring: Stick in the Wheel, Lynched, The Furrow Collective, The Gift Big Band which will include Norma, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Neill MacColl & special guest Richard Hawley.

If this is your first dip into the music of The Baird Sisters, then let it not be your last. Until You Find Your Green is one of the most beautiful albums of 2016, one I know I’ll constantly be revisiting.

Anglo-French acoustic dance combo Topette!! are on tour through December (ft. Andy Cutting, James Delarre, Julien Cartonnet, Tania Buisse, and Barnaby Stradling), one band you know you can keep warm to no matter how cold the venue…you just dance! Plus they are recording an album…all fantastic news!

Our Song of the Day is from singer-songwriter Gitta De Ridder with her new video for Wanderer taken from her recently released album Feathers. The video features footage shot by Gitta over the time she made the album travelling between Devon, London and the Dutch countryside.

Watch Break Out, the new music video from Copenhagen-based electronic folk-rock outfit Rainbrother. Taken from their forthcoming album Tales From The Drought, produced by Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart).

Laura Marling has announced details of her sixth album Semper Femina. Watch her directorial debut with the video for the first fruits of the record and the album’s opening track, Soothing.

We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to the Scots Trad Music Awards this coming Saturday 3rd December at Dundee’s Caird Hall. Here’s a reminder of the Album of the Year shortlist.

We talk to author and journalist George Monbiot and Scottish guitarist and balladeer Ewan McLennan about their album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. “To this day song can and does continue to speak about the world around us, to document the undocumented, and to rail against the injustices of our time.”

Scottish duo Catriona Price and Esther Swift who sail under the name of Twelfth Day recently launched a Kickstarter Campaign for their new album Cracks In The Room, their “most honest, raw and exciting work yet.”

Jack Cheshire has revealed his new video for Visitations, the first single from the forthcoming album ‘Black Light Theatre.’ The video is the work of director David Emanuel Altweger and his partner and collaborator Mira Loew.

With Howe Gelb’s new album, Future Standards, due for release tomorrow on Fire Records, we get a glimpse of his journey into the piano standard world of Monk, Cohen, Bacharach, Porter and Carmichael with ‘Impossible Thing.’

Jon Boden is announced as Guest Curator for Cambridge Folk Festival 2017 and, along with The Remnant Kings, will perform their first live show in several years with a one-off preview performance on the festival’s main stage of material from the brand-new Jon Boden album to be released in autumn 2017.