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Next month, Vinyl180 will release two very special albums in their Topic Records Introduction series – A double LP Real Sound Of Folk Compilation and Shirley Collins – An Introduction To. We have copies to giveaway and a special discount offer for all Folk Radio UK readers.

If you love the minimalist folk music of Cath and Phil Tyler, Shirley Collins, Lankum and Anna & Elizabeth then folk duo House and Land may well be right up your street. They are on tour in Europe in October 2017. Watch them perform The Day is Past and Gone, our Song of the Day.

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Woody Guthrie, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage have released a new single ‘Way Over Yonder in Minor Key’. The single is released ahead of their October Tour. Watch their new video here.

Watch the latest video from Holy Moly & The Crackers with their cover of the Cold War Kids song, ‘Hospital Beds’. The song will feature on the B-side of their new ‘Let Go’ single due to drop on October 6th via Pink Lane Records ahead of their November tour.

Inge Thomson and Jenny Sturgeon are to join forces on a new project titled ‘Northern Flyway’ which explores birdsong, ecology, folklore and themes of migration and movements of birds and humans.

Tomorrow sees the release of Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love, the new album from Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock. To celebrate the release, you can listen to the album in full and read, in Marry’s own words, about the songs and the making of the album.

Watch ‘Write Me a Song’ the latest song and video from Saskia Griffiths-Moore’s forthcoming third studio album Night and Day. A folk style ballad that will leave the listener carried by the song and caught in the story.

Paisley’s National Festival and one of the biggest events in Scotland’s cultural calendar, The Spree is back for its sixth consecutive year with some of the biggest names in Scottish music, comedy and entertainment including Breabach, Kris Drever, Talisk, Dougie MacLean as well as Ireland’s Sharon Shannon. Watch our preview.

Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards are set to release their new album California Calling on 6th October. Watch their new music video for Stockholm and don’t miss their UK Tour dates which kick off this month.

Hands Up for Trad have announced Billy Connolly is amongst the 2017 Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame inductees. See the full list here which includes Rab Noakes, Christine Primrose, Jock Tamson’s Bairns, Kenneth McKellar and lifelong Gaelic advocate Kenna Campbell.

Jon Boden, the former Bellowhead frontman and 12-time BBC Folk Award winner has shared the third cut from his forthcoming album, ‘Afterglow’. ‘Bee Sting’ helps set the visual backdrop for the narrative of ‘Afterglow’ with Jon turning to his experiences of the infamous Lewes Bonfire Night for inspiration.

The name Kirsty Merryn may be new to most of you but that’s all about to change with the release of her debut album ‘She and I’ which she will launch at London’s Union Chapel on November 9 whilst supporting Show of Hands on their UK Cathedrals tour.