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France-based, Cameroonian singer & guitarist​ Blick Bassy announces UK Tour Dates. He is renowned for his live shows, which assimilate electronic elements alongside an unusual band including trombone, cello, banjo and his trademark mini telecaster.

Our Song of the Day comes from Brooklyn-based folk singer Ana Egge. We Are One is Ana’s new single which was co-written with Gary Nicholson. In sharing it she said, “Art, beauty and love, that is what we need to renew ourselves with to make a better world.”

The Weather Station (a.k.a. Tamara Lindeman) recently visited Canada’s CBC Radio studio to perform a number of live tracks from her latest self-titled album. Watch her performing Thirty, You and I (On the Other Side of the World) and Kept it all to Myself.

An eclectic and global punchy kick-ass mix this week shaped very much by a few double helpings from the likes of Jiggy, Trad.Attack!, TootArd, as well as some top tunes from Eliza Carthy, Martyn Bennett and more.

Our Song of the Day comes from three world-class musicians who celebrate the traditional music of Wales: Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Jamie Smith and Dylan Fowler. Together, the trio go under the name of ALAW. Watch their beautiful scenic video for Pan O’wn Y Gwanwyn, filmed at Twyn y Gaer, an iron age hill fort near Abergavenny.

I’m With Her – the multiple talents of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan – announce the release of their full-length debut, See You Around, out on Rounder Records February 16, 2018. Listen to the title track which is out today.

Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band will be on tour this month and through December across the country – watch her new video for ‘I Wish That The Wars Were All Over’ featuring Damien Dempsey. We also have a pair of tickets to giveaway for each tour date.

The new single and accompanying video for ‘When We Collided’, from Danish artist Lasse Matthiessen, is a real tour-de-force of musical passion that just works on every level…a classic that you’ll return to time and time again. Brilliant.

The shortlist for this year’s MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards has just been revealed. The Scottish music scene goes from strength to strength as this shortlist shows, many of whom have featured on Folk Radio UK. The public can vote online up until 24th November. Get voting!

Legendary singer, songwriter, activist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez, has announced an extensive 2018 world tour including UK dates. In conjunction with the tour she will release a new studio album: ‘Whistle Down The Wind’ via Proper Records in early March 2018.

Listen to the captivating and beautiful debut single, What The Whisper Said, from singer-songwriter Reema. There’s an ethereal quality to her low mellifluous vocals which blend beautifully with cyclical guitar patterns and dreamy jazz lines on this song. Taken from ‘The LowSwing Sessions’ out on 8th December.

With her UK and European tour about to kick off, Jesca Hoop has revealed a new stop-motion animation for Pegasi which was directed by Rachel Blumberg. The song is taken from her album Memories are Now, her Sub Pop debut released earlier this year.