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For our latest ‘FRUK Presents’ Under the Apple Tree Session with Bob Harris we sent Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater feat. Kelly Oliver to the studio. Together they performed a beautiful version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’. Watch it here.

Our Song of the Day is from FRUK favourite Lorcán Mac Mathúna as he performs Filleadh thar claddach live with Raphael De Cock and Rémi Decker, a song which featured on the Northern Lights album Dubh agus Geal. The video includes some lovely footage of Galway hookers, a traditional fishing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland.

The gifted Donegal traditional folk singer, musician and storyteller Packie Manus Byrne has sadly died at the age of 98. A highly respected man who will be sadly missed but his stories and songs will of course live on.

We have an exclusive live video premiere from Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr performing ‘Seven Years’ from their forthcoming new album, plus an exclusive giveaway of 10 signed deluxe sets of Murmurs. Don’t miss out.

This summer sees the exciting new Tweed Project taking to the festival road featuring Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar alongside Scotland’s Mischa MacPherson, Innes White and Ali Levack. The combined skills and passion of this new project make them a highlight of any festival.

Fancy a festival that involves a complete escape? Ireby Festival is of the outskirts on the Lake District situated in a small farming village. A cosy setting for 600 festival goers and a top line-up including Cara Dillon, Police Dog Hogan, CoCo and the Butterfields, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Jordie Lane, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar and many more.

On Your Own is the new single from Aria & Mia which we’re very honoured to be premiering today on Folk Radio UK. It’s an exquisite and beautiful song that really makes their musical and vocal attributes shine through from the delicate combination of cello and banjo to their delicate harmonies. Taken from forthcoming new album.

Our Tune of the Day is from an exciting new Irish duo based in Glasgow – Gráinne & Ryan. Together they combine fiddle with uilleann pipes and flute to perform Irish traditional tunes, contemporary tunes as well as their own compositions which together with their regional styles, produces some really great Irish sets, as you can hear.

Watch the new video from The Young’uns, a timely song called You Won’t Find Me on Benefits Street. A great song and response to our warped media coverage of today. Taken from their new album ‘Another Man’s Ground’.

Our Song of the Day is a demo recording from Alasdair Roberts Hirta Songs (2013), a collaboration with poet Robin Robertson, a concept album of sorts that was inspired by the people, landscape and history of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, the most remote part of the British Isles.

To mark the recent release of their self-titled album, (New York, NY) Nashville-based, heartland rock band, Midnight Pilot reveal their exclusive new video session for Taking My Chances.

We have a special video premiere today from Matthew The Oxx for Tonight’s The Night, taken from his forthcoming third album First Aid for the Drowning due out on 11th May via Wild Sound. With airplay already received from Steve Lamacq and Cerys Matthews at BBC 6Music as well as Max Reinhardt at BBC Radio 3 he may well find the pace of life suddenly quickening as the world wakes …