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Kate Rusby announces her 30th Anniversary album “30 : Happy Returns” featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Richard Hawley, Darlingside, KT Tunstall, Sarah Jarosz, Sam Kelly, Dan Tyminski, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Damien O’Kane.

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra share new single and video for ‘We Are Part Mineral’ – “There’s a sense of deep rooted humanity – that our time here on earth is short and we will never fully hear the rocks sing, as they shift over millennia.”

Best known for his time as frontman of Dublin quintet ‘The Eskies’, Ian Bermingham announces his eagerly anticipated solo debut album ‘The Death Of Old Sea Legs’ and UK Tour.

Featuring Dirk Powell & Mark Knopfler, our Song of the Day comes from Heidi Talbot with her new single Empty Promise Land, taken from her forthcoming new album Sing It For A Lifetime.

Sam Carter is back on the road this month with his Home Waters Tour 2022 which kicks off at London’s Green Note. Watch him performing Just As The Tide Was Flowing live.

The Folk by the Oak festival team, who commissioned the incredible Spell Songs project, are excited to announce a unique opportunity to enjoy Spell Songs at their best by tuning in to an exclusive online broadcast of a full live performance at Birmingham Symphony Hall.

Cecil Sharp House, London, announce another peerless and varied season of folk gigs including National Youth Folk Ensemble, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron, Mairearad Green & Anna Massie, a special tribute to Alan James featuring 9Bach, John Metcalfe and elements of Imagined Village and more.

Taken from her powerful forthcoming album ‘The Unquiet’, watch the accompanying video for Felton Lonnin, the new single from Irish singer Pauline Scanlon. It’s a Northumbrian ballad about a missing child which she sings “to honour the women and children who endured church and state systems of incarceration and separation…”

Celebrating International Women’s Day, on the video for ‘Awe Na Mná (Praise the Women)’, Clare Sands is joined by 100 women on four beaches in the four corners of Ireland, celebrating sisterhood in all its colours.

In time for International Women’s Day and taken from their forthcoming new album “A Year Too Late and a Month Too Soon (Songs from Yorkshire)”, Bryony Griffith and Alice Jones premiere their video for ‘Wanton Lasses Pity Her’ a traditional song from North Yorkshire.

FolkeFest is a new folk festival for Folkestone featuring Sam Lee, Rachel Sermanni, Martha Tilston, Lunatraktors, Sam Brookes, London Contemporary Voices, Shovel Dance Collective, Milkweed, Rihab Azar and many more, alongside street theatre, film and dance, to workshops, talks and even clog dancing.

Taken from Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage’s forthcoming new album ‘Ink of the Rosy Morning’ on Topic Records, watch their accompanying video for the tender folk ballad ‘False True Love’ which is released today.