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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.

In September Govanhill Baths will host the inaugural Glasgow Songwriting Festival. Organised by singer-songwriter Findlay Napier the festival is primarily a teaching festival with a ‘songwriters in the round’ style opening concert at the Glad Café.

Padraig Duggan, one of the founders of Irish group Clannad has died at the age of 67. He had been a member of Clannad for 40 years, starting way back in 1970 where it all began at Leo’s Tavern in Donegal. We take a look back at their early years.

Twenty-three years on from their debut album, Coope Boyes & Simpson announce their tenth solo album ‘CODA: A concluding event’ and announce their farewell tour.

We have a video premiere of Leave a Map, the second single from Real Live Tigers’ most recent album “Denatured.” The video came out of an email correspondence between songwriter Tony Presley and documentary filmmaker Brad Bores.

Listen to Gerridae by Welsh Bajan singer-songwriter Kizzy Crawford. The song is taken from her forthcoming double A-side single on Folkstock Records. She’s made quite an impression and will soon feature as a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.