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Last year saw the release of Cracks in the Room by Scottish acoustic duo Twelfth Day which we described as “one of the most rewarding listening experiences to be placed before an audience this year.” Watch their new video and catch them on tour in October.

Damien O’Kane and Pure Records announce Folk Prostate Cancer, an afternoon and evening concert featuring Kate Rusby, Mawkin, Lori Watson, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton with Jenn Butterworth, Jack Rutter and Dave Burland & The Awkward Squad.

The Lancashire folk experimentalists Harp and a Monkey have just made public the fruits of a beautiful and informative short film collaboration which studies the influence of Japanese art and culture on the creations of Vincent Van Gogh. Watch it here.

With their fiftieth anniversary set to be celebrated in 2019 and a work rate to put many younger artists to shame, Steeleye Span are as inspired now as they have been at any point in their long and glittering career. Don’t miss their October 2018 Tour.

Watch Fara’s music video for ‘Love Gathers All’ (also our Song of the Day), the words of which are taken from a poem by Orcadian poet Edwin Muir. The song features on their forthcoming new album ‘Times from Times Fall’ which is out on 19th October.

Bella Hardy fans now have the opportunity hear her performing her latest album ‘Hey Sammy’ with stripped back instrumentation as she heads out on tour this autumn with only her two fiddles and harmonium for company.

In the run-up to Brona McVittie’s forthcoming winter tour of cities in the UK and Ireland, including 5th December in London at Kings Place, she is releasing a brand new video for Under The Pines, the album’s lead single. Watch the premiere on Folk Radio UK.

Trio Dhoore, that talented band of musical brothers from Flanders in Belgium, will return to the UK in November on tour. They score highly for their traditional Flemish tunes, songs and compositions as well as their humour and banter. Not to be missed!

Ten leading traditional poets and musical artists have completed an exciting, multi-lingual residency in Galloway, Scotland.  The artists have been working together to create a new arrangement of the Galloway Gaelic Oran Bagraidh song as well as original compositions inspired by the song, the landscape and each other.

Watch the new lyric video for the groove-driven ‘Tiger’s Eye’, the second single to be released from Manitoban Folk musician Carly Dow’s new album “Comet” which is set for release on October 19th.

Fresh from her acclaimed play Narvik winning last year’s Best New Play Award at the UK Theatre Awards, we talk to playwright and songwriter Lizzie Nunnery who is to premiere her new play with songs ‘To Have to Shoot Irishmen’ inspired by events from the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916.

This Friday sees the release of a new digital single from Ireland’s Brigid Mae Power. Watch the beautiful accompanying video for ‘Is My Presence In The Room Enough For You?’ and hear her gorgeous cover of Fred Neil’s ‘The Dolphins’.