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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’.

Mercury is the third solo album from multi-award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Siobhan Miller and her first album of entirely original material. The title track, which is released as a single today, is also out Song of the Day.

This autumn Ma Polaine’s Great Decline release a new single ‘The Poison Sits’. This is a remixed ‘single version’ of the song which features on the band’s latest record “The Outsider”. Watch the accompanying video.

Maiden Voyage Recording Company are set to release Fair Lady London, the fifth studio album by husband and wife duo, Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou on November 23rd which sees them return to the trusty Tascam 246 4-track cassette recorder.

Our Tune of the Day is Domino Road from Phillip Henry’s forthcoming solo album True North. Consisting of two tunes, Jutland by Tommy O’Sullivan, and Domino Road by Phillip, watch the beautiful accompanying video featuring footage shot on tour in Australia.

Blair Dunlop has released the video for his new single ‘Sweet On You’ (also our Song of the Day), taken from his critically acclaimed 4th album ‘Notes From An Island’. It precedes his upcoming UK tour with Australian singer-songwriter Jack Carty.