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Taken from their latest album Lord of the Desert, Utah desert-based string trio 3hattrio reveal video for Skeleton Tree. The video arrives ahead of their current European tour which starts this week.

Rhiannon Giddens called it ‘one of the best weekends of her life.’ In a Cambridge Folk Festival Special, Rob Bridge captures the magic of the weekend in a great set of backstage interviews, photos and more.

Listen to Sunday Song, an acoustic folk ballad and the new single from LA singer-songwriter James Houlahan off of his forthcoming LP The Wheel Still in Spin.

Phillip Henry (of Edgelarks) announces new solo album True North – celebrating ten years since his seminal trip to study music in India, and all his many musical travels since. Listen to the first single Kalyan Variations.

A truly spectacular Festival event, DUST brings the culture and soul of American noir to the Edinburgh Fringe and showcases the music-making process…a stunning live performance piece.

Fans of Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard won’t want to miss Sing Me Back Home: The DC Tapes, 1965-1969 which is out September 21 on Free Dirt Records. Listen to them performing This Little Light of Mine.

Glasgow’s award-winning multi-instrumentalist Innes Watson has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his new project the Guitar Colloquium. The project came about in 2011 with a New Voices commission from Celtic Connections.

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.