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Peter Walker is Joined in a mighty super-session with Harmony Rockets (Mercury Rev), Martin Keith, Nels Cline (Wilco), and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), that could only have coalesced around the wool sweaters, warm teacups and moldering bookstores of “Old Old Woodstock”…

Anamnesis is Ethan Johns’ first album since 2015’s ‘Silver Liner’ – where classic British folk meets the sound of wandering American troubadours with a healthy dose of inspiration from the unknown.

Watch the latest video from Trent Miller for Moonlight Cafe from his latest album Time Between Us. Tent Miller plays Mid Sussex Americana & Ale Festival in Hassocks Sat 11th August together with Bennett Wilson Poole, Jason McNiff and more.

John Smith announces new folk album Hummingbird, produced by Sam Lakeman and featuring Cara Dillon, John McCusker and Ben Nicholls. The album will be released on October 5th and accompanied by an extensive EU Tour. Listen to John performing Willy Moore, a song he first heard performed by Wizz Jones.

Watch the latest video from The Shackleton Trio for The Fashionable Farmer, they play the main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend.

Having spent the last five years clocking up numerous road miles, This Frontier Needs Heroes is set to return to Europe again next week. In Brad Lauretti’s own words, he is “psyched to be going back to Europe next week!”

Folk singer-songwriter Kirsty Merryn comes to the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, Suffolk on Friday 31st August, and the Guildhall Norwich on 18th October as a part of her first ever solo tour of the UK.

Don’t miss them this October on their 10th Anniversary tour including London, Glasgow and Dublin – Original, entertaining and thought-provoking, the Rubber Wellies are a unique Basque, Irish and British based collective, a travelling folk outfit like few others.

Fresh from his whirlwind world tour with rock legend Robert Plant, charismatic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman releases his stunning, ninth solo album The Well-Worn Path on October 26 via Cooking Vinyl.

Named after “a massive fairground that appears on Newcastle Town Moor every summer”, listen to Modern Hinterland’s lead single ‘Take You To The Hoppings (To Do Wrong)’, from their forthcoming album which takes its name from the fair.

Our Tune of the Day comes from Assynt, one of Scotland’s newest, most exciting folk trios featuring award-winning musicians Graham MacKenzie, David Shedden and Innes White. Their debut album, Road to the North, is released on August 18th.

Watch Michelle Mandico’s lyric video for 1000 Feet, from her debut album Ptarmigan. “It is about putting one foot in front of the other, knowing that the path is steep and the distance is daunting.”