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Our Song of the Day is via the way of an entertaining new video from Lail Arad for Milo. The first official single from her forthcoming new album The Onion. The PR describes it is an explosion of je ne sais quoi. This is an earworm you won’t be able to shake off or indeed forget Lail’s bicycle skills!

C.W. Stoneking is bringing a brand new band to Europe and the UK this May/June to promote his new album, Gon’ Boogaloo. Gone are the sepia-toned tales of marooned adventures in the tropics of his last release, Jungle Blues, this time replaced with the latest invention in the world of C.W. Stoneking, electricity!

Our Song of the Day is from Kitty Macfarlane with a beautiful cover of Tim Buckley’s Song To The Siren. Kitty recently made it to the semi-finals of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and is also performing at our next Levels Collective evening this Friday supporting Alasdair Roberts.

Eliza Carthy has teamed up with Tim Eriksen to release a new album called ‘Bottle’ which will be released via Navigator Records on May 18th. Hardcore ‘Americana’ with hardcore ‘Anglicana’. We can’t wait, got to be one of the most highly anticipated folk album releases of 2015.

Welsh band Allan Yn Y Fan not only continue to go from strength to strength but have also grown. They have just announced their first line up change since 2008. The original four band members – Geoff Cripps, Chris Jones, Lind Simmonds and Kate Strudwick are to be joined by by lead-singer Catrin O’Neill and fiddler Alan Cooper.

We have a video premiere today from Americana singer/songwriter Ryan Hobler with a beautiful cover of Neil Young’s Harvest Moon. We featured Ryan last year and he wowed us then, but this is cover is simply stunning which is why we’ve also chosen it as our Song of the Day.

The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions EP featuring Kate Rusby has been released via iTunes on which she performs songs from her album ‘Ghost’. Kate also kicks off her UK tour next month at The Sage, Gatehead on 15th April.

We have a great Song of of the Day from Tobias Ben Jacob & Lukas Drinkwater for ‘Burning Low’. The combination of Tobias’ accomplished guitar playing (and lead vocals) and Lukas’ double bass make for some sharp rapid fire acoustic interludes that really lift this song giving it a fresh and uplifting sound – a real catchy earworm.

Simon heads off to London’s Sebright Arms to catch New Zealand based Indie-folkers Streets of Laredo plus we have an excellent and exclusive bedroom demo from the band for ‘Need A Little Help’ taken from their current album Volume I & II which was a Featured Album of the Month on Folk Radio UK.

Jackie Oates releases her 6th studio album on 27th April. Listen to the title track ‘The Spyglass & The Herringbone’ and watch her new video for ‘Can’t Be Sure’. The album is supported by a tour which takes in dates not only in the UK but also in Belgium and Iceland.

Earth Recordings have announce a Record Store Day Tribute to Shirley Collins with the release of ‘Shirley Inspired’, an album from which we have a small taster with songs performed by Graham Coxon, Will Oldham and Johnny Flynn. Proceeds of this album go directly towards the production of ‘The Ballad of Shirley Collins’, a film by Fifth Column.

The name TEYR is Cornish for “3” who are comprised of James Gavin (guitar and fiddle), Dominic Henderson (uilleann pipes and whistles) and Tommie Black-Roff (accordion). Watch them performing Shady Grove, our Song of the Day, and catch them at this year’s Priddy Folk Festival.