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Watch the award-winning short film ‘La Madre Buena’ (The Good Mother) by up and coming female Yorkshire based director Sarah Clift.The tale of a Mexican mother torn between her politics and pleasing her only son’s birthday wish – to have a Donald Trump piñata.

The Sadies reveal first single from forthcoming new album Northern Passages…a great vintage sounding acid-folk number which began life as a letter to their friend Rick White, whose contributions, both musical and visual, have helped to shape The Sadies’ career.

Maz O’Connor takes bold new steps towards a new future in music as she unveils her most beautiful song and video to date with ‘Skin,’ in which she also performs a moving and emotional contemporary dance; this is just the beginning.

Brisbane based folk singer/songwriter Angharad Drake reveals her new music video for ‘Baby’, a song that ‘encapsulates the selfishness of love, explored through the paranoia and envy of one side.’

Come for a hike through the verdant countryside and along the railroad tracks of Vancouver Island as we share the first single from Roger Dean Young & the Tin Sea. A name that will be semi-familiar to those that recall ‘Roger Dean Young and the Tin Cup’ from 2006. It features on their new album Wrought Iron Will due out in March.

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band will release their debut album Big Machine on 3rd Feb on Topic Records. Surely one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2017! We have the pleasure in premiering their video for the first single, ‘Fade & Fall (Love Not)’. Don’t miss their November tour!

Shortlisted nominations have been unveiled for the 2016 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. The winners will be announced at the event on Saturday 3rd December, at the Caird Hall Dundee.

Listen in full to “Pendulum Swing” from Danny Green, aka Laish. A set of twelve songs that span the spectrum of gentle fingerpicked acoustic guitar ballads, through to more robust art-rock jams.

DJ Dolphin Boy makes a fitting tribute mix to the much-missed Angus Grant of Shooglenifty. This is bloody wonderful….how the man would want to be remembered – through his music.

Marry Waterson and David A Jaycock are at the top of my list when it comes to favourite folk duos, so don’t miss their tour supporting Marry’s cousin Eliza Carthy throughout November and their headline tour in February next year.

Carrie Rodriguez, acclaimed singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, announces a headline November UK tour, following her recent project, the celebrated Spanish/English album “Lola,” released in the UK earlier this year.

The third London Folk & Roots Festival kixks off this month with acts such as Newton Faulkner, Jon Boden, Mick Flannery, Sarah Jarosz, Tony Joe White, Eliza Carthy, Michael McGoldrick, Maz O’Connor and many more. Listen to our spotify playlist preview.