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Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ross Ainslie and Steven Byrnes Haberlin have teamed up on the collaborative album LAS. The album is out Friday 2 September, the self-penned instrumental album is the first album of double C smallpipes to be released in the world.

Sidmouth Folk Festival is warming up, and today you can catch Fisherman’s Friends, Jez Lowe, Granny’s Attic, Sheelanagig, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron and many more. There’s so much to see in the week ahead…

Bear’s Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt, The Chieftains Live in San Francisco 1973 and 1976 is a never-released-before project from The Owsley Stanley Foundation and Claddagh Records. The 2CD also features bonus material of the last interview Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains ever gave.

Masters of Tradition Festival returns to Bantry, Co. Cork in August with another great programme that journeys to the heart of Irish music including Martin Hayes, Cormac McCarthy, Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Kathryn Tickell Trio, Lorcán MacMathúna, Steve Cooney, Caitlín Nic Gabhann and more.

Our Song of the Day comes from Eliza Carthy & The Restitution with their new single ‘The Snow it Melts the Soonest’. It’s taken from her new album ‘Queen Of The Whirl’.

Glasgow-based folk four-piece Gnoss have just announced they are touring this August and September and they have also started working on a new album. They will be playing some of the new tracks live for the first time.

Following the success of this summer’s inaugural Dandelion Festival Glasgow, the organisers are delighted to announce the first acts for the Inverness free festival this September including, Spell Songs, Hannah Rarity, Dallahan, The Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton Trio, Hamish Napier, Sona Jobarteh & more.

Through 100 years of film and TV footage, Arcadia explores the changing face of the British countryside and our relationship to the land and each other. It takes in folk carnivals and masked parades, harvesting, communes and raves, mechanisation, fires, floods and much more.

Watch the video for “Put Me In A Corner”, the final track on the album “48 Hours With David Ford And Annie Dressner.” “If they can do this in two days, imagine what wonders a week might produce.”

Cellist and composer Barney Morse-Brown has shared a video for his cover of Sting’s ‘The Hounds of Winter’. Morse-Brown’s version highlights his versatility as a multi-instrumentalist and his endearing unorthodox approach to music.

Dean Owens celebrates the vinyl release of his critically acclaimed Sinners Shrine album with a new video for Arizona – a tour around his favourite state: The Painted Desert, giant saguaro cacti, and Sinner’s Shrine in Tucson.

Some of Scotland’s top traditional musicians, including Kim Carnie, Gary Innes & Ewen Henderson, Hecla, Staran, Norrie MacIver, Megan Henderson, Mary Ann Kennedy, Paul McKenna, Julie Fowlis, and Sian, will be performing at this year’s Blas Festival, celebrating Gaelic music and culture.