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Watch Bloodfox, the new single from Talitha Rise from her upcoming debut album ‘An Abandoned Orchid House’ due in February 2018. The track was recorded at home on piano and features Jo Cox’s speech on diversity.

Watch the new music video for the beautifully moving ‘Kansas City, MO’ from Minnesota indie-folk band Humbird. The song features on their latest EP Where Else. Well worth checking out.

Stick in the Wheel announce their second studio album “Follow Them True” and reveal video for lead single ‘Over Again’. The songs on the album examine rituals and cycles, our inherent power to change ourselves and the world around us, the past repeating itself, ghosts and death, land and place, thieves and beggars.

Watch the new video from the acclaimed folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey who are doing their bit to help promote a subject close to their hearts today – mental health. The film is about anxiety and isolation.

The end of last month saw the release of Midnight Milk, the much-anticipated new album from Edinburgh outfit Adam Holmes & The Embers. Don’t miss their UK tour with fellow Scot, Rachel Sermanni.

The fourth London Folk & Roots Festival gets underway later this month offering 18 Days of the very best in Folk, Roots, World, Blues & Country Music (Saturday 28th October – Saturday 18th November 2017).

Ahead of a run of acoustic live dates in November Lisbee Stainton announces new album, ‘Lisbee LIVE’ from which you can listen to Undertow, a song co-written with a long-time champion of Lisbee’s music, Tom Robinson.

Listen to the lead single ‘Secret’ from dream-folk quartet Circumnavigate, an intimate folk song with lead singer Sigrid Zeiner-Gundersen’s ethereal vocal carrying the song effortlessly alongside the band’s atmospheric musicianship.

Folk Show Episode 13 features some great vintage folk from the Transatlantic label with Pentangle, Sweeney’s Men, Alan Hull and more. Plus classics from Nick Drake and Bob Dylan and new releases from Cara Dillon, Karine Polwart and more.

Watch Valparaiso’s noir video of the song “Fireplace” feat. Rosemary Standley of Moriarty, taken from the critically acclaimed long-player Broken Homeland. It’s directed by photographer Richard Dumas and Amaury Voslion.

Listen to Sergeant William Bailey, from Lankum’s forthcoming album ‘Between the Earth & Sky’. This one is particularly special in that the site of William Bailey’s recruiting attempts is Dunphy’s corner, just down the road from where the members of Lankum live on Dublin’s northside.

Cara Dillon, one of the most celebrated singers in Irish Folk music and BBC Folk Award winner, announces her brand new album Wanderer. For this, her seventh album, she offers a collection of songs featuring intimate performances that capture some of her most moving vocal performances to date.