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Introducing Latchepen, a London-based gypsy jazz band who share a love for Django Reinhardt and anything that swings. Watch their latest video for Our Laughing Heart, a clever love story between two hand puppets, taken from their forthcoming debut album Love Letters, due for release on November 1st.

Our Tune of the Day is from Jim Ghedi’s second album ‘A Hymn for Ancient Land’ due for release on Basin Rock in early 2018. Listen to ‘Home For Moss Valley’ – The Moss Valley is a five-mile stretch of ancient woodlands, rivers, moors and farms along the Yorkshire/Derbyshire border.

Drag City and Galactic Zoo Disk! announce Ed Askew archive release ‘A Child In the Sun: Radio Sessions 1969-1970’ from four unearthed reels of recordings of radio sessions including a previously unreleased track.

Gwenifer Raymond is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, originally from Cardiff, now based in Brighton. She’s just signed to Tompkins Square through whom she’s released her new single Sometimes There’s Blood.

Watch Bloodfox, the new single from Talitha Rise from her upcoming debut album ‘An Abandoned Orchid House’ due in February 2018. The track was recorded at home on piano and features Jo Cox’s speech on diversity.

Watch the new music video for the beautifully moving ‘Kansas City, MO’ from Minnesota indie-folk band Humbird. The song features on their latest EP Where Else. Well worth checking out.

Stick in the Wheel announce their second studio album “Follow Them True” and reveal video for lead single ‘Over Again’. The songs on the album examine rituals and cycles, our inherent power to change ourselves and the world around us, the past repeating itself, ghosts and death, land and place, thieves and beggars.

Watch the new video from the acclaimed folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey who are doing their bit to help promote a subject close to their hearts today – mental health. The film is about anxiety and isolation.

The end of last month saw the release of Midnight Milk, the much-anticipated new album from Edinburgh outfit Adam Holmes & The Embers. Don’t miss their UK tour with fellow Scot, Rachel Sermanni.

The fourth London Folk & Roots Festival gets underway later this month offering 18 Days of the very best in Folk, Roots, World, Blues & Country Music (Saturday 28th October – Saturday 18th November 2017).

Ahead of a run of acoustic live dates in November Lisbee Stainton announces new album, ‘Lisbee LIVE’ from which you can listen to Undertow, a song co-written with a long-time champion of Lisbee’s music, Tom Robinson.

Listen to the lead single ‘Secret’ from dream-folk quartet Circumnavigate, an intimate folk song with lead singer Sigrid Zeiner-Gundersen’s ethereal vocal carrying the song effortlessly alongside the band’s atmospheric musicianship.