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Watch the new video from folk singer songwriter Emily Mae Winters for Down by the Salley Gardens. The traditional Irish song which is based on the lyrical poem by Irish poet W.B Yeats featured on her debut album’ Siren Serenade’ which was a Featured Album of the Month on Folk Radio UK.

Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker have a sonic connection that some duos only dream of. Watch their latest video for Lonesome Traveler (from their forthcoming album SpiderBeetleBee), it expresses a touch of surrealism that merges the ethereal, the old cinema, and the dark reality of destruction together.

Karine Polwart – five-time winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – will release her new album ‘A Pocket Of Wind Resistance’ via Hudson Records on November 17, 2017. the album was written in collaboration with the Scottish sound designer Pippa Murphy. Listen to the title track here.

‘Hey Sammy’ is the long-awaited ninth solo album by Edale-born singer songwriter Bella Hardy, a record that bears the stamps of extensive musical expeditions far from home. Listen to ‘Learning to Let Go’ exclusively on Folk Radio UK.

Listen to “What Will We Do When We Have No Money?”, the first track from Lankum’s forthcoming new album ‘Between the Earth and Sky’, due for release on Rough Trade Records on October 27th.

For her fourth album, Dripping Springs, Joana Serrat travelled from her home in Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country outside Austin. There she teamed up with Israel Nash at his Plum Creek Sound studio and a stellar crew of musicians. Listen to the results here.

Watch ‘Song Long Forgotten’, the first single from brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn who make up Dublin-based Ye Vagabonds. Their self-titled debut album is due for release on 13th October 2017.

Taken from their forthcoming second album No where In Time, Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton are well known for experimenting with traditional and original songs as they demonstrate so ably on Waterbound, a song by Dirk Powell.

Experimental folk artist Sam Amidon shares a new video for ‘Warren’ from The Following Mountain. Amidon will tour Europe this autumn. The tour includes his first headlining performance at London’s Union Chapel on October 26,

For Portland, Oregon songwriter Anna Tivel, the open road is more than a way to bring her songs to new places, it’s also a near-endless source of stories. On her new album, Small Believer she taps into the stories she hears every night, after every show. Listen in full here.

Over the next month, Kings Place will be hosting some of the very best Folk artists including Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock, Faustus, Maddy Prior, Noel Hill as well as two Album launches from Leveret and Martin Simpson.

Australia’s The Mae Trio are set to bring their unique contemporary twist on folk music to the UK. Listen to their truly sublime cover of Karine Polwart’s ‘Waterlily’ and watch their latest video for Well Enough Alone.