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Show of Hands announces new album “Battle Dance Floor”, joined by Miranda Sykes and newcomer Cormac Byrne, with Steve Knightley declaring “…we are at last creating a sound we’ve dreamed of making for twenty-five years!”

Today marks the release of TYAGARAH, the new single from Elephant Sessions, the profits from which all go to World Elephant Day. Watch the accompanying video which features footage from the award-winning feature documentary film “When Elephants Were Young”.

This Autumn, Cambridge-based singer-songwriters Annie Dressner and Luke James Williams are heading out on a co-headline tour of venues around England.

After two albums and several hugely successful tours, The Pitmen Poets (Billy Mitchell, Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Jez Lowe) prepare to release their farewell album to accompany their 23 date farewell tour.

The Orphan Brigade head to the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland for inspiration for their new and aptly titled album “To the Edge of the World.” Watch the video for their first single ‘The Banshee’, also our Song of the Day.

Watch ‘Wheels Of The World’, the title track of the new album from English folk trio Granny’s Attic. A song of Irish origin, it takes the listener on a vivid tour of the early 19th-century European political landscape which remains relevant to today’s political climate.

The first live review coverage of Cambridge Folk Festival is in – featuring Ben Caplan, The Rails, Ralph McTell, Graham Nash, Tunng, Chloe Foy, Lisa O’Neill, Lucinda Williams, Nick Mulvey, Richard Thompson, Crooked Weather, Daoiri Farrell’s All-Star Celtic Session and more.

Listen to ‘Common Clay’, the new single from Alasdair Roberts, taken from his forthcoming new album The Fiery Margin. He is joined here by guest vocalist Mary Hampton & Neil Sutcliffe on accordion alongside his trio of ‘friends’: Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones.

Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.

Critically acclaimed English singer and songwriter Maz O’Connor releases Chosen Daughter, her first new studio album since 2016, on October 25 via Restless Head/Hudson Records. Watch the video for ‘San Francisco’, a stunning first single.

The first week of August sees the Devon town of Sidmouth reverberate to the Sounds Of Modern Scotland, thanks to the support that the long-running Sidmouth Folk Festival receives from Creative Scotland. The remainder of the week sees two phenomenal young Scots singers step into the Sidmouth spotlight.

200 years ago next week, sword-wielding soldiers on horseback cut through a crowd of protestors in Manchester – Peter Coe, Brian Peters and Laura Smyth, through ballads and broadsides from that period, tell the story of one of the most notorious incidents in British labour history.