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Our Song of the Day comes from Steve Tilston with The Fisher Lad of Whitby. Steve is on tour throughout the rest of this year including dates with Jez Lowe as well as Wizz Jones at Costa del Folk in Portugal.

A brand new folk music and storytelling show, Dreaming the Night Field: a legend of Wales, touring 14 Sep – 26 Nov. This show embodies the spirit of the essential, ancient Welsh legend of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion, with original music performed live by three of the UK’s leading musician and storytelling voices.

TradLive – a new music festival from Hands Up for Trad which will be streamed entirely on YouTube – will go live on Saturday 23rd September. The one day spectacular will see 9 live music acts broadcast live from 2pm to 11pm (BST)

Four times nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, revered duo Megson hit the road once again in 2017, with a string of dates booked across the UK through September, October and November for their “Pushing On” tour.

The London Folk Festival returns to Camden’s Cecil Sharp House for a day-long celebration of folk music featuring Jim Moray, Lady Maisery, The Askew Sisters, The Rheingans Sisters, The Andy May Trio, Said The Maiden, Moore Moss Rutter, Rosie Hood, Emily Mae Winters and more.

A free, half-day workshop at Sheffield University on using the Vaughan Williams Library Digital Archive, and its latest addition the James Madison Carpenter Collection.

The UK’s biggest indoor festival of World Music returns this October with a fantastic lineup including: Afro Celt Sound System, Benjamin Zephaniah & The Revolutionary Minds, Maarja Nuut, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers, O’Hooley & Tidow, Grace Petrie and more.

Exclusive: Listen to Wild Ponies new album Galax on which they pay tribute to the powerful music and rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, where both Wild Ponies’ members Doug and Telisha Williams were born and raised. European Tour October and November 2017.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nominees 2017 Ninebarrow have announced that they are currently working on album number three – The Waters and the Wild. Watch footage of a recent rehearsal for a special trio concert with Lee Cuff on cello.

Blue Rose Code unveils the first cut from his forthcoming new album, The Water Of Leith. ‘Love Is…’ – a duet with the multi-award winning folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, Julie Fowlis, talks of ideals and anticipation.

Folk experimentalists and storytelling trio Harp and a Monkey release new video for ‘Clean White Sheets’, a song commemorating Nellie Spindler, a nurse from Wakefield in Yorkshire who died this day, one hundred years ago.

Ian Randall Thornton’s sound echoes with a history beyond his years, listen in full to his forthcoming self-released album Lineage. “At its heart, Lineage is about family… and the process of sifting through our cultural and familial inheritance, seeking to honor and sustain what is beautiful and beneficial, while uprooting what is hindering and unhealthy.”