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Moussu T e lei Jovents take their inspiration from Marseille in the thirties, a veritable musical melting pot, where Provençal songs could be heard alongside local operettas by Vincent Scotto or the black music bursting onto the scene at the time (i.e. blues and jazz, with music from the West Indies and Brazil too).

Folk Radio UK is off to Priddy Folk Festival tomorrow, we’ll be reviewing the festival and taking in the acts. The line-up is fantastic and the atmosphere will be great. You can still watch performances and more if you have no ticket so come along!

Other Lives release Tamer Animals in the UK on 29th August which promises to be an opening salvo of ambitious scope: densely textured and uncompromisingly sophisticated, yet instantly appealing and alluringly mysterious.

Watch Kris Drever performing some impromptu sessions with pals Alasdair White of the Battlefield Band and Irish tenor banjo player Eamonn Coyne!

Sarah McQuaid is just back from Ireland, where she finished recording and mixing her new album – It’s a bit of a departure from my previous solo CDs in that the emphasis this time round is on my own original songs.

We are continuing to introduce new music from the past and present to the Folk Radio UK playlist which offers a mix of both contemporary and traditional folk music from the British Isles and further afield. We have our second big tranche of new tunes on the way in next week, Enjoy!

Originally hailing from Canada, Po’ Girl weave a blend of musical influences, sweetness, grit & soul into their fresh and original sound. Catch them on their UK & Ireland Tour in 2011!

Bellowhead put on a cracking performance at Glastonbury and pleased the crowd no end. Watch them perform New York Girls below.

We’ve been very busy updating our music on Folk Radio UK over the past week with the addition of new albums as well as some folk music classics from the past. Below is yesterday’s playlist to give you a flavour. This is just a fraction of what we currently play so expect more new music to brighten up your summer!

Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo paid a visit to the BBC studios for a session for Dermot O’Leary’s show on BBC Radio 2. Listen to it now and hear her perform her new single ‘Pause’.

This set of videos of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh has featured before on Folk Radio UK on our old site back in 2009. Caoimhín is one of my favourite fiddle players so I’m going to indulge myself…

The following video of James Irwin and his band was shot by ASTW in the woods of Oka, Quebec… James writes twice a day—songs, poems and stories, first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon, always with a coffee.