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Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) announces new solo album True North – celebrating ten years since his seminal trip to study music in India, and all his many musical travels since. Listen to the first single Kalyan Variations.

A truly spectacular Festival event, DUST brings the culture and soul of American noir to the Edinburgh Fringe and showcases the music-making process…a stunning live performance piece.

Fans of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard won’t want to miss Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 which is out September 21 on Free Dirt Records. Listen to them performing This Little Light of Mine.

Glasgow’s award-winning multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his new project the Guitar Colloquium. The project came about in 2011 with a New Voices commission from Celtic Connections.

Peter Walker is Joined in a mighty super-session with Harmony Rockets (Mercury Rev), Martin Keith, Nels Cline (Wilco), and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), that could only have coalesced around the wool sweaters, warm teacups and moldering bookstores of “Old Old Woodstock”…

Anamnesis is Ethan Johns’ first album since 2015’s ‘Silver Liner’ – where classic British folk meets the sound of wandering American troubadours with a healthy dose of inspiration from the unknown.

Watch the latest video from Trent Miller for Moonlight Cafe from his latest album Time Between Us. Tent Miller plays Mid Sussex Americana & Ale Festival in Hassocks Sat 11th August together with Bennett Wilson Poole, Jason McNiff and more.

John Smith announces new folk album Hummingbird, produced by Sam Lakeman and featuring Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls. The album will be released on October 5th and accompanied by an extensive EU Tour. Listen to John performing Willy Moore, a song he first heard performed by Wizz Jones.

Watch the latest video from The Shackleton Trio for The Fashionable Farmer, they play the main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend.

Having spent the last five years clocking up numerous road miles, This Frontier Needs Heroes is set to return to Europe again next week. In Brad Lauretti’s own words, he is “psyched to be going back to Europe next week!”

Folk singer-songwriter Kirsty Merryn comes to the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, Suffolk on Friday 31st August, and the Guildhall Norwich on 18th October as a part of her first ever solo tour of the UK.

Don’t miss them this October on their 10th Anniversary tour including London, Glasgow and Dublin – Original, entertaining and thought-provoking, the Rubber Wellies are a unique Basque, Irish and British based collective, a travelling folk outfit like few others.