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A new Sky Arts documentary, ‘Set The Night On Fire’, examines both the life and music of Ewan MacColl featuring interviews with Peggy Seeger and contributions from the likes of Billy Bragg, Barbara Dickson, Harp & a Monkey, Stick In The Wheel and more.

Listen to LA Electric, the new single from Richmond, VA-based Sun V Set whose songwriting is grounded in nature elements and paints a dreamy landscape interwoven with siren melodies, mystical chords, and understated grooves. A spellbinding fusion of folk, mysticism, and self-reflection.

Welsh trio ALAW make a welcome return in February 2022 with a new lineup and album titled Drawn to the Light. Listen to two beautiful new tracks from their upcoming single – Hiraeth and Fill the House.

Our Tune of the Day is The Green Light Set, performed by Ross Ainslie, Brìghde Chaimbeul and Steven Byrnes. It opens to three tunes by Ross and ends on a tune by Damien O’Kane called Castlerock Road.

Highland geology forms part of the inspiration behind ‘Gneiss’, a new album by fiddler Iain Fraser to celebrate 30th anniversary of the Fèis Rois nan Inbheach (Adult Fèis Rois).

Iconic UK Folk Rockers Fairport Convention are celebrating their monumental 55 year anniversary with their first Winter Tour in 2 years, taking in 30 dates throughout the UK.

Today’s tinsel offering comes from Sofia Talvik with her new Christmas single ‘A Memory of Snow’ – a rather soothing tale of lost love and memories of a snow-covered Copenhagen, a story that is told in both English and Swedish.

Mick Flannery and Susan O’Neill have released an official video for “Are we Free?”, their current single off their highly acclaimed collaboration album. Filmed partly on location at The Cork Opera House late October.

Bellowhead announce November 2022 Tour to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Broadside. Supporting on all 18 dates will be Sam Sweeney with his band. We wind back the clock to 2012.

Watch the new lyric video ‘Valle Local’, taken from José González’s fourth album Local Valley – “the ideas put forward in this album probe the corners of human consciousness while ultimately being an expression of love, peace and unity.”

We take a look back at the life of Barry Coope who passed away earlier this month. He was a member of Narthen and Coope, Boyes and Simpson – a name that represents the finest a capella harmonies in the English folk world.

Taken from their exhilarating second album Odyssey, watch the accompanying video to Open Seas from the international folk sensation that is Fourth Moon featuring: Austrian Géza Frank (flute and whistles), Italian David Lombardi (fiddle), Jean Damei from France (guitar) and Andrew Waite from Scotland.