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Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith join forces for a 9-date Christmas Show featuring an evening of galvanising songs for the wintertime, drawing on a variety of winter traditions from rousing folk carols to more contemplative and hopeful music to brighten the darkest season.

Currently mid-way through an 11-date US tour, British singer-songwriter Roo Panes has today released a Chris Thomas directed video to go with his latest single ‘Ophelia’ which premieres on Folk Radio UK.

The Young’uns present a new and unique piece of modern folk theatre – The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff is the story of one man’s adventure from begging on the streets in the north of England to fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, taking in the Hunger Marches and the Battle of Cable Street.

Gigspanner are on the road again including dates with Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin as The Gigspanner Big Band. Watch the new Perrine Nouvier video for Urban Reel and their entire Big Band set from Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

Newly Commissioned by the Scots Fiddle Festival, The Four Pillars is a multi-media experience and musical suite from Scottish musician Mike Vass which premieres on Friday 16th November at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh.

Watch Gilmore and Roberts performing Things You Left Behind, a song which Katriona also provides a personal insight to. The song features on their new album A Problem of our Kind which is a Featured Album of the Month on Folk Radio UK.

While on tour, Dublin-based singer Lisa O’Neill visited the childhood home of John Lennon in Liverpool. While there, Lisa, accompanied by two supporting musicians, performed the popular traditional ballad Leaving of Liverpool which is also our Song of the Day.

Our song of the Day comes from Paul Sartin, Benji Kirkpatrick and Saul Rose who collectively make up the English folk trio Faustus. Watch their new video for The Death of the Hart Royal a mythological tale in which The Lord of the Greenwood – Robin Hood – encounters a dying stag.

In April this year The Model gallery in Sligo, owners of a selection of Iconic Images of the greatest Celtic Epic, The Táin, was host to an interpretation of this ancient epic which married three art forms. Find out more and watch a performance of Scread Ceann Sualtaim.

Following the sell-out success of the first ever Walton Folk Festival, another amazing lineup is set to light up the Riverhouse Barn on Saturday 4 May 2019 including False Lights, Daria Kulesh, Edgelarks, The Trials of Cato, Lukas Drinkwater and Hannah Ashcroft.

The award-winning trio, Besarabia, a group from Valencia, Spain have announced UK dates in November. They amalgamate the music they love; music from the Balkans, the Mediterranean and Klezmer, into a very personal, idiosyncratic style.

Watch Stick in the Wheel performing the ‘Weaving Song’ with Sandra Kerr who sang the original as Madeleine the Rag Doll from the children’s classic TV series Bagpuss, the music for which is to be re-released next month in all its newly-mastered splendour.