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THE spirit of the world-famous Cambridge Folk Festival will inject the city with winter cheer in February and March (22nd Feb – 6th Mar) when Cambridge’s second city-wide winter folk and roots festival opens for two weeks of exceptional music and events.

In a duet with Natalie Schlabs, we have a new single to share from Ben Glover which is being released digitally today. The song is brought to another level with the amazing piano performance by Danny Mitchell and the cello of Chelsea McGough.

Van William (Port O’Brien) announces new album Countries – watch his latest music video and read about how his life on Kodiak Island, Alaska took a turn leading to a renewed sense of purpose and this new musical direction.

Watch the new video from Patrick Watson for his brand new single ‘Broken’ which was recorded at studio PM in Montreal last month. “This is a song I just felt like sharing before the next record. Dedicated to the storms we went through.”

Billed as one of the key folk music events of 2017, the 40th-anniversary revival of Peter Bellamy’s most revered work The Transports is to tour again in January 2018. Coinciding with the tour will be the release of the live recording of The Transports on January 12 on Hudson Records, a landmark album destined to become a collector’s item.

Sardinian guitarist Paolo Angeli has released a double album featuring performances captured live from some 60 concerts. His music is unclassifiable, a bit like his guitar which on closer inspection reveals an instrument that sits somewhere between guitar, cello and drums.

Will Varley announces details of his 5th studio album, ‘Spirit Of Minnie’, to be released February 9, through Xtra Mile Recordings. Produced by Cameron McVey, it features a full backing band for the first time. Listen to lead single All Those Stars.

France-based, Cameroonian singer & guitarist​ Blick Bassy announces UK Tour Dates. He is renowned for his live shows, which assimilate electronic elements alongside an unusual band including trombone, cello, banjo and his trademark mini telecaster.

Our Song of the Day comes from Brooklyn-based folk singer Ana Egge. We Are One is Ana’s new single which was co-written with Gary Nicholson. In sharing it she said, “Art, beauty and love, that is what we need to renew ourselves with to make a better world.”

The Weather Station (a.k.a. Tamara Lindeman) recently visited Canada’s CBC Radio studio to perform a number of live tracks from her latest self-titled album. Watch her performing Thirty, You and I (On the Other Side of the World) and Kept it all to Myself.

Our Song of the Day comes from three world-class musicians who celebrate the traditional music of Wales: Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Jamie Smith and Dylan Fowler. Together, the trio go under the name of ALAW. Watch their beautiful scenic video for Pan O’wn Y Gwanwyn, filmed at Twyn y Gaer, an iron age hill fort near Abergavenny.

I’m With Her – the multiple talents of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan – announce the release of their full-length debut, See You Around, out on Rounder Records February 16, 2018. Listen to the title track which is out today.