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Watch The Small Glories featuring Cara Luft & J D Edwards performing ‘Secondhand’ live in Concert. The song features on their new album Assiniboine & The Red which is released later this week on June 28 via Red House Records.

Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos.

Our Song of the Day is Tarn Song, the forthcoming single from Harvey Lord. The accompanying video unfolds like a Cumbrian psych-folk dream – reminiscent of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan’s pastoral sounds. 

The Rails, Kami Thompson and James Walbourne, release the first taste from their stunning forthcoming third album today with this immaculate slice of modern contemporary folk ‘Mossy Well’.

On June 21st, The Smoking Flowers, made of East Nashville-based artists Kim and Scott Collins, will release their forthcoming album Snowball Out of Hell. The album was conceived during Kim’s battle-and later triumph-over an aggressive form of breast cancer. Listen in full here.

Having released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year so far in The Unseen In Between, singer-songwriter Steve Gunn today shares two new non-album cuts ‘Be Still Moon’ and ‘Shrunken Heads’.

Devendra Banhart announces his new album Ma (featuring Cate Le Bon and Vashti Bunyan) and shares surrealistic video for the first single, ‘Kantori Ongaku’ which translates from Japanese to “country music”.

Ali Hutton & Laura-Beth Salter go in search of common ground as they pair up as new duo “From The Ground” and release their debut EP ‘Beginnings’.

One for fans of traditional fiddle music, watch the incredibly talented Scottish fiddle player Ryan Young performing with Chris Amer on guitar. Make sure you catch Ryan on one of his many tour dates this year.

An extra special treat at the end of the week as North Carolina folk duo House and Land pay a visit to the home of Shirley Collins and perform Ca the Yowes for her. Watch the video here.

Calexico and Iron & Wine are to release a collaborative album ‘Years To Burn’ this coming Friday, watch the Making Of mini-documentary – They will also be touring together including London’s Royal Festival Hall and a headline slot at Cambridge Folk Festival.

Last month saw the release of Londoner Alex Seel‘s latest LP Spell on a Tin Drum. Our Song of the Day is the closing track of the album titled Quietus on which you can hear the influence of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn.