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We have a video premiere today from Cove Hithe who hail from the gently wild Suffolk coast. Watch their new animated video for How Wild the Wind Blows, a cover of a song by Molly Drake, the mother of Nick Drake.

As part of our ongoing coverage of Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin award winning song writer and story teller David Gibb shares his thoughts on Day Two. A visit to the Museum of Welsh Life in St Fagans, a lecture from Wales’ answer to Cecil Sharp, Roy Saer and you can watch them all performing Lord Randal.

One of the most remarkable vocal harmony trios ‘The Devil’s Interval’ feat. Lauren McCormick, Emily Portman & Jim Causley reunite for mini tour and Sidmouth Folkweek. Watch them warming up for the tour as they perform Silver Dagger.

Emily Portman will release her new album in June titled Coracle. It promises to be her most ambitious release to date. Produced by Andy Bell it features featuring her regular trio of Rachel Newton & Lucy Farrell as well as a number of guest musicians from the world of folk music including Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney.

Richard Thompson will release Still, an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 29, 2015 via Proper Records. Still was recorded in a two-story rehearsal loft in Chicago over the course of just nine days with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at the helm, backed by several longtime players from both Thompson’s and Tweedy’s bands.

As part of our ongoing coverage of Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin which is now underway, we have the first guest blog from Elan Rhys, the lead vocalist of folk group Plu. Day one included a performance on Radio 4’s Front Row programme and research at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House.

I quite literally stumbled across Three Pilgrims this morning and was immediately taken by their studio demo of ‘Don’t Look Down’, so much so it just had to be the Song of the Day on Folk Radio UK. They run a weekly residence at The Eagle on Ladbroke Grove.

The Demon Barbers have revealed the first in a series of videos about the making of their latest album and stage production Disco At The Tavern. It includes an insight from Damien into his early beginnings on the folk club scene and his influences ranging from Cordelia’s Dad to Peter Bellamy.

In July this year Rosanne Cash heads to the UK touring as a duo with husband and sideman John Leventhal for dates which include London’s Union Chapel and SummerTyne Americana Festival.

Our Song of the Day comes from Best Group in the BBC Folk Awards this year – The Young’uns. Watch their powerful new video for The Streets of Lahore, a song they wrote about Farzana Parveen who in May last year was murdered by 4 members of her own family in broad daylight outside the High Court of Lahore for marrying without their consent.

Sidmouth FolkWeek has another great lineup this year including winners of the recent BBC Folk Awards with Nancy Kerr and Sam Sweeney. Also amongst their extensive lineup are some wonderful folk music stars who performed at the Awards: Julie Fowlis and Kate Rusby. Get your tickets quick as Early Bird reductions run until end of this month.

We get the first thoughts from Elan Rhys and David Gibb on Beyond The Marches / Dros y Ffin which will be exploring and celebrating in the shared history of England and Wales. We will have more from them this week as the project progresses.