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Heading this year’s Underneath the Stars (20th – 22nd July 2018 Cinderhill Farm, Yorkshire) line-up are Grammy Award-winning songwriter and activist Steve Earle with his band The Dukes, as well as Barnsley born and bred Kate Rusby and more.

You Are Wolf, the alt-folk project of award-winning composer and vocalist Kerry Andrew has shared a new video for Breathe In Breathe Out from her latest album KELD which celebrates her love for wild swimming.

Will Newsome has released a free EP titled Old Skin. It features a beautiful track called Empty Sea (also our song of the day) which has been brought to life by Paolo Russo in a stunningly beautiful and imaginative animation. Watch it here.

This year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (16-19th August 2018) is looking to be one of their best lineups yet. Beth Orton is the latest headliner announced who will be performing alongside the likes of Richard Thompson, Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Elephant Sessions, Trad Attack! and many more. Watch our video preview.

To celebrate the re-issue of Tom Waits’ Elektra Asylum Records on CD and Vinyl, he has personally curated a 76-song playlist spanning his entire career. You can now explore Waits’ many styles of storytelling and heartbreaking melodies via Spotify and Apple Music.

Watch the stunning new video for Enough, the new single from Brie Capone, a refreshing young singer whose soulful voice will stop you in your tracks. In this intimate film by Peter Brownlee, Brie Capone invites the listener to visually experience her inner dialogue of disillusion. 

Joachim Cooder announces Fuschia Machu Picchu, a seven-song EP inspired by the world music he grew up on, with touches of Psychedelia and Appalachian Folk. Watch him performing live in the studio.

Following his tour supporting Jeff Tweedy in back in January, James Elkington returns to the UK shores next month to begin his UK & European Tour. Not to be missed.

The Levellers, Nick Mulvey and Teenage Fanclub are to headline the thirteenth Moseley Folk Festival in Birmingham (Friday 31 August to Sunday 2 September) alongside the likes of Bridget St. John, Martin Carthy, This is the Kit, King Creosote, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel and many more.

In a new video, Rhiannon Giddens, this year’s guest curator for Cambridge Folk Festival, reveals her choices which include Amythyst Kiah, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago and Peggy Seeger. Watch the video and enjoy our special showcase playlist.

Inspired by the golden days of easy listening, watch Best Laid Plans, the new video from R W Hedges. It’s taken from their forthcoming album The Hunters In The Snow which takes its dues from The Beatles and The Kinks, among other quintessentially distinctive British pop bands.

The dulcet tones of Jamie Doe return this week under his much-loved moniker The Magic Lantern. Taken from his forthcoming album To The Islands, listen to his new single Lydia which is also our Song of the Day.