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The Orphan Brigade head to the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland for inspiration for their new and aptly titled album “To the Edge of the World.” Watch the video for their first single ‘The Banshee’, also our Song of the Day.

Watch ‘Wheels Of The World’, the title track of the new album from English folk trio Granny’s Attic. A song of Irish origin, it takes the listener on a vivid tour of the early 19th-century European political landscape which remains relevant to today’s political climate.

The first live review coverage of Cambridge Folk Festival is in – featuring Ben Caplan, The Rails, Ralph McTell, Graham Nash, Tunng, Chloe Foy, Lisa O’Neill, Lucinda Williams, Nick Mulvey, Richard Thompson, Crooked Weather, Daoiri Farrell’s All-Star Celtic Session and more.

Listen to ‘Common Clay’, the new single from Alasdair Roberts, taken from his forthcoming new album The Fiery Margin. He is joined here by guest vocalist Mary Hampton & Neil Sutcliffe on accordion alongside his trio of ‘friends’: Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones.

Check out our top picks for this year’s Purbeck Valley Folk Festival including John Smith, Cara Dillon, Crooked Weather, Mama’s Broke, Marry Waterson and Emily Baker, Flook, Karine Polwart, Afro Celts, Bird in the Belly, PicaPica and more.

Critically acclaimed English singer and songwriter Maz O’Connor releases Chosen Daughter, her first new studio album since 2016, on October 25 via Restless Head/Hudson Records. Watch the video for ‘San Francisco’, a stunning first single.

The first week of August sees the Devon town of Sidmouth reverberate to the Sounds Of Modern Scotland, thanks to the support that the long-running Sidmouth Folk Festival receives from Creative Scotland. The remainder of the week sees two phenomenal young Scots singers step into the Sidmouth spotlight.

200 years ago next week, sword-wielding soldiers on horseback cut through a crowd of protestors in Manchester – Peter Coe, Brian Peters and Laura Smyth, through ballads and broadsides from that period, tell the story of one of the most notorious incidents in British labour history.

Watch the premiere of Without You, the new single from Chloe Foy. The video, which was directed by Will Thomas, is refreshingly inventive, creating windows into other scenes like Lewis Caroll’s ‘Through the Looking-Glass’. 

Watch the new video from Junkboy for ‘Old Camera, New Film’, taken from their new album ‘Trains, Trees, Topophilia’, a collection of instrumental music inspired by seasonal tipping points, nature, place and memory.

Ken Abrams shares his highlights of this year’s Newport Folk Festival which celebrated its 60th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger’s birth.

There’s a rare opportunity for Scots music lovers in the south of England to see multi-award winning Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis at The Sidmouth Folk Festival on Monday 5th August.