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Traditional folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Rutter announces a follow-up to his 2017 solo debut with Gold of Scar & Shale. Watch the video for his first single ‘I Was Once a Young Ploughboy’.

Watch the new lyric video for Black Rooster, the new single from Wales-based Wyoming-born songsmith Jeb Loy Nichols, taken from his forthcoming new album June Is Short, July Is Long (out 5th July). He tells us the song started life on the Welsh back roads where he lives.

Festival favourites, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, infamous for their frenetic fiddle tunes and thumping backline, celebrate their tenth birthday as a band in 2019 with a lengthy autumn-winter ‘Ten Yaar Anniversary’ tour.

With Sidmouth Folk Festival just around the corner and The Ham venue grabbing much of the attention, it’s The Bulverton which is Sidmouth’s party central! From Late Night Extra ceilidhs and some of the most thrilling concert performances on the UK festival calendar.

David heads to Black Deer Festival at Kent’s Eridge Park and shares some his personal highlights including Kris Kristofferson and The Strangers, John Butler Trio, The Staves, Band of Horses, Trials of Cato, John Smith, Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton and more.

Our Song of the Day comes from Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Adir L.C. with Best Version (of My Short Life), the opening track from his second full-length album “Basket Star”. Watch the accompanying video here…the lyrics remain with you long after the final note fades out.

Watch the accompanying video for “Happier Now,” the new single from Devin Tuel who resides in rural Pennsylvania, and is better known to the larger world as Native Harrow. Utterly timeless and refreshingly original.

Sea Songs: Anatomy of a Drowning Man is the forthcoming new album from Belfast-based M.CAMBRIDGE (Arborist). Featuring sea songs based on old shanties, Ulster weaver-poet poems, traditional ballads and original compositions, it’s one of the most beautiful and remarkable albums I’ve heard this year.

Inspired by a walk around Danebury Hill Fort in Hampshire, Danebury Rumination finds singer-songwriter Owen Tromans focusing on the cyclical nature of life and death, and presents a stoic response to the knowledge that our time on Earth is limited.

Watch The Small Glories featuring Cara Luft & J D Edwards performing ‘Secondhand’ live in Concert. The song features on their new album Assiniboine & The Red which is released later this week on June 28 via Red House Records.

Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos.

Our Song of the Day is Tarn Song, the forthcoming single from Harvey Lord. The accompanying video unfolds like a Cumbrian psych-folk dream – reminiscent of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan’s pastoral sounds.