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Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are to reunite as Arab Strap for their 20th Anniversary playing three live shows in October. They’re also releasing a new single, a remix of their debut The First Big Weekend.

Watch ‘Sweet Liberties’ Cecil Sharp House concert in full. Recorded last November by London Folk Music featuring Martyn Joseph, Nancy Kerr, Sam Carter, Maz O’Connor, Pasty Reid and Nick Cooke.

Our Song of the Day is from Jenny Sturgeon with Nowhere Else I’d Rather Be, taken from her forthcoming album ‘From the Skein’ which is released this Friday 10 June via Tamarach Records.

Rick Redbeard has revealed his new single The Golden Age. It’s taken from ‘Awake Unto’, his new album released later this month on Chemikal Underground (17 June).

Watch the new video for Gray Gardens, the new single from Lord Youth, the songwriting project of Micah Blaichman from Queens, NY which began life in a Copenhagen attic studio, dating from 1865.

German based one-man-band and hellraiser ‘The Dad Horse Experience’ is on tour in the UK at the moment. He performs on banjo, mandolin, bass-pedal, and kazoo and he goes a little something like this.

Watch the video premiere for Cast a Spell from Rusalnaia (Sharron Kraus & Gillian Chadwick). Taken from their new album ‘Time Takes Away’, due for release on 15 July via Cambrian Records.

Watch a short film on the making of Wind Resistance, the first ever show for theatre from Karine Polwart. Taking the peatbog Fala Flow as a central focus she surveys the surrounding landscape through history, song, birdlore and personal memoir.

Frightened Rabbit have unveiled a new video featuring an acoustic performance of Die Like A Rich Boy, the closing track on their fifth album Painting Of A Panic Attack which was produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner

FRUK is heading to Sin-Eater Festival in Shropshire this weekend to witness one of the best festival line-ups I’ve come across. Featuring the likes of Trembling Bells, Stick in the Wheel, Toby Hay & Jim Ghedi, RM Hubbert, Cath & Phil Tyler, Rusalnaia, C Joynes & The Dead Rat Orchestra and many more.

We have a video premiere to share with you from Australian folk artist Ariela Jacobs performing Sandman. The song featured on her ‘Yesteryear’ EP released earlier this year. The video was filmed by Large Noises.

The Ministry is a short film by actor and director Khyan Mansley. He plays a failing author who, just when things look like he has no future, finds out that a cult have an interest in his novel and believe him to be a prophet.