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Watch the new video from Patrick Watson for his brand new single ‘Broken’ which was recorded at studio PM in Montreal last month. “This is a song I just felt like sharing before the next record. Dedicated to the storms we went through.”

Billed as one of the key folk music events of 2017, the 40th-anniversary revival of Peter Bellamy’s most revered work The Transports is to tour again in January 2018. Coinciding with the tour will be the release of the live recording of The Transports on January 12 on Hudson Records, a landmark album destined to become a collector’s item.

Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli has released a double album featuring performances captured live from some 60 concerts. His music is unclassifiable, a bit like his guitar which on closer inspection reveals an instrument that sits somewhere between guitar, cello and drums.

Will Varley announces details of his 5th studio album, ‘Spirit Of Minnie’, to be released February 9, through Xtra Mile Recordings. Produced by Cameron McVey, it features a full backing band for the first time. Listen to lead single All Those Stars.

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.