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Dark-folk Hampshire-based duo Provincials, featuring Polly Perry (Polly & the Billets Doux) & Seb Hunter, return with new single and video for Skara Brae, the lead track from their forthcoming new album.

Special guests announced for Richard Thompson’s 70th Birthday bash including Alistair Anderson, Ashley Hutchings, Christine Collister, Danny Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Dave Pegg, David Gilmour, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Linda Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Maddy Prior, Martin Carthy, Olivia Chaney, Simon Nicol, Teddy Thompson and more.

Three of the Folk Radio UK that are heading to Cherry Hinton Hall for Cambridge Folk Festival this year (1-4 August 2019) tell us their top must-see acts of the festival.

Listen to ‘Born Human’, the new single from Martin Simpson which tackles environmental conservation. It’s taken from his new studio album Rooted which is set for release on August 30 via Topic Records.

Our Song of the Day comes from New York-based singer/songwriter Emma Frank with a cover of Wilco’s ‘Either Way’. It features on her new album, Come Back out September 6th, via Nettwerk.

FolkEast have an outstanding line-up this year – Richard Thompson, Cara Dillon & friends, the Karine Polwart Trio, John Smith, Calan, Sharon Shannon Band, Ross Ainslie, Jarlath Henderson and Ali Hutton, Daphne’s Flight, Blair Dunlop and Siobhan Miller.

Watch the video for ‘Great Old Northern Line’, the second single from British folk singer-songwriter newcomer Odette Michell, taken from her newly released and critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Wildest Rose’.

Today sees the release of On Clay Hill, the debut album from Stick in the Wheel band member Fran Foote and her mother Belinda Kempster. Watch their new music video for John Barleycorn.

Musician, ethnomusicologist, and professor Tim Eriksen kicks off his UK tour today and includes dates with Mama’s Broke, Susan Brearey and Cath & Phil Tyler. Watch him performing the Mountains of Pomeroy.

That banjo-toting Nova Scotian folk troubadour Old Man Luedecke whose bluegrass-inspired arrangements with witty and wise lyrics have earned him a plethora of awards and critical acclaim returns to the UK in August for a string of festival dates.

Listen to Memory Compass, our Song of the Day and the new single from Nels Andrews, taken from his forthcoming album ‘Pigeon & The Crow’ which was produced by traditional Irish flautist Nuala Kennedy and includes guest appearances by fellow songsmiths Anaïs Mitchell, AJ Roach, and Anthony Da Costa.

Today sees the release of ‘Baby She Roam’, the new single from London-based freethinking folk musician David Ellis, taken from his upcoming debut album ‘Misty Heights’, released on 15 August 2019. Watch the accompanying video.