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Our Song of the Day is from folk singer-songwriter Rob Richings. Watch the video premiere for ‘Ten Seconds’, a song written when he was very ill, inspired by the first ten seconds of the day when everything is okay, before reality kicks in.

Our Tune of the Day is from Paul James who many of you will know as a member of Blowzabella. Wakeful is from his forthcoming new album The Drowned Lover & Other Dark Tales which is due for release in September 2016.

Watch the new video for ‘A Love so Contagious’ from Jeff Finlin, taken from his just released new book of poetry entitled ‘The Seduction Of Radha’…a kind of modern-day American Rumi-ism.

Cardiff singer-songwriter and folk musician Gareth Bonello (The Gentle Good) returns this October with his fourth album Ruins/Adfeilion. To mark the release, we have a series of exclusive live videos. Watch the first one today – The Fisherman

The first names for Celtic Connections 2017 are announced with tickets going on sale for Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, The Felice Brothers, Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and Joanne Shaw Taylor.

Watch the video premiere for ‘Work’, a new track from Dan Whitehouse taken from his forthcoming new album ‘That’s Where I Belong’. The album features B.J.Cole and Folk Radio UK favourite Jess Morgan.

Aborigine singer-songwriter Archie Roach is best known for his intensely emotional single “Took the Children Away.” A song which featured on his 1990 debut album “Charcoal Lane”. The song went on to be the first song to achieve an international Human Rights Achievement Award following the attention it brought to the world of the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from their families. In the intervening years, …

We have the immense pleasure of sharing with you the new video from Dublin-based band Lynched for Lullaby which featured on their debut album Cold Old Fire. The video is visually stunning and was directed and animated by Eoin Whelehan from Dublin.

FINALE was recorded live during the 2008 Pentangle tour and sees the original line-up revisit their classic repertoire. The beautifully recorded and packaged 2CD set captures the band in a series of scintillating performances.

Blair Dunlop is delighted to announce he will be opening for former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden on selected dates of Jon’s fourteen date November 2016 UK solo tour.

A year after his critically acclaimed debut album, Ralegh Long returns with a subtle new E.P, We Are In The Fields. This gentle, restrained E.P picks up where Hoverance left off, listen in full here and watch the new video directed by Darren Hayman.

Roy Bailey is to launch his first ever full live album at Towersey Festival. It features guest appearances by Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Roy’s daughter Kit, and grand-daughter Molly.