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Watch Christy Moore performing ‘Quiet Desperation’ live at The Point Theatre, Dublin in 2006. The song which was written by Floyd Red Crow Westerman also featured on his 1985 album ‘Ordinary Man’ on which Enya provided backing vocals.

In partnership with Cambridge Folk Festival, BFI curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt have put together a selection of folk-related films to watch for free on the BFI website including documentaries featuring The Watersons, Kathryn Tickell, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and more.

Filmed at Nine Stones Close on Harthill Moor, Derbyshire, watch ‘The Grey Ladies’, the beautiful new video and moving single from “Words of a Fiddler’s Daughter” featuring Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger of improv folk duo The Ciderhouse Rebellion and poet and wordsmith Jessie Summerhayes.

Jon Boden announces two more dates for his “Last Mile Home” tour. He also has a Songwriting Retreat in September and will perform with Eliza Carthy as a duo for the first time at London’s iconic Union Chapel for a special Wassail celebration in December.

Seaside is the latest single from London born, Nashville based Spencer Cullum, taken from his debut solo album, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection. “…a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players…”.

Towesey Festival cancel this year’s ‘Pint-sized Towersey’ which was set to run next month. “We have worked our socks off to try and make it happen but as a small independent festival, we cannot continue to take the risks we have been fearing all year.”

New York native, P.J. O’Connor releases his new single and video for ‘Summer Squall’…a story of finding appreciation for those rare moments when we are neither worried about the future nor frustrated with the disappointments of the past.

English folk trio Leveret, featuring Andy Cutting on melodeon, Sam Sweeney on fiddle and Rob Harbron on concertina, head out on the road this October for a series of tour dates in celebration of their Variations Live album.

Broadside Hacks is a new collective derived from a group of like-minded musicians with a wild and lustrous curiosity for traditional, radical folk heritage. Featuring Katy J Pearson, Pixx, Junior Brother, Lankum, Sorry, Yorkston Thorne Khan, Blaenavon, Shovel Dance Collective, Brigid Mae Power and more.

Watch a video exclusive of Josienne Clarke’s ‘A Letter On A Page’. Filmed by Alec Bowman Clarke, the song was written at a time when she wasn’t sure if she’d ever play music again… It’s from “A Small Unknowable Thing”, Clarke’s second solo album due for release on August 13th.

Taken from folk duo Gawain and the Green Knight’s new EP ‘A Sleeping Place’, watch their video for “The Dressmaker”, their first “stomp-and holler” song and a reflection on the quiet triumphs that make up a life. The video features the incredible embroidery of Yoshie Kawakami.

Having parted ways back in 2014, Spiers & Boden, one of our finest folk duos, are back together again with a new album titled Fallow Ground, which you can pre-order today. They have also announced festival appearances and a 23 date UK tour.