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This summer sees the exciting new Tweed Project taking to the festival road featuring Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar alongside Scotland’s Mischa MacPherson, Innes White and Ali Levack. The combined skills and passion of this new project make them a highlight of any festival.

Fancy a festival that involves a complete escape? Ireby Festival is of the outskirts on the Lake District situated in a small farming village. A cosy setting for 600 festival goers and a top line-up including Cara Dillon, Police Dog Hogan, CoCo and the Butterfields, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman, Jordie Lane, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar and many more.

On Your Own is the new single from Aria & Mia which we’re very honoured to be premiering today on Folk Radio UK. It’s an exquisite and beautiful song that really makes their musical and vocal attributes shine through from the delicate combination of cello and banjo to their delicate harmonies. Taken from forthcoming new album.

Our Tune of the Day is from an exciting new Irish duo based in Glasgow – Gráinne & Ryan. Together they combine fiddle with uilleann pipes and flute to perform Irish traditional tunes, contemporary tunes as well as their own compositions which together with their regional styles, produces some really great Irish sets, as you can hear.

Watch the new video from The Young’uns, a timely song called You Won’t Find Me on Benefits Street. A great song and response to our warped media coverage of today. Taken from their new album ‘Another Man’s Ground’.

Our Song of the Day is a demo recording from Alasdair Roberts Hirta Songs (2013), a collaboration with poet Robin Robertson, a concept album of sorts that was inspired by the people, landscape and history of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, the most remote part of the British Isles.

To mark the recent release of their self-titled album, (New York, NY) Nashville-based, heartland rock band, Midnight Pilot reveal their exclusive new video session for Taking My Chances.

We have a special video premiere today from Matthew The Oxx for Tonight’s The Night, taken from his forthcoming third album First Aid for the Drowning due out on 11th May via Wild Sound. With airplay already received from Steve Lamacq and Cerys Matthews at BBC 6Music as well as Max Reinhardt at BBC Radio 3 he may well find the pace of life suddenly quickening as the world wakes …

This is what happens when you have a chat down the pub and decide to mix traditional Irish music with hip hop beats from the 1990s. Meet Jiggy: Daire Bracken (fiddle) Éamonn Galldubh (pipes), Niwel Tsumbu (guitar), Anttoin Bracken (guitar), Robbie Harris (percussion) and DJayzus on decks…and occasional guests including Beatboxer MIC Bandit.

Called one of the ‘best voices in England’ by Ralph McTell, Bob Fox has a busy month ahead as he tours across England and Wales. Dates include Tredegar House Folk Festival in South Wales. Watch this performance from Songs from the Shed from 2013.

Today is Christy Moore’s Birthday, and we have a Song of the Day from the great man with a cover of Black is the Colour, a traditional song he learned from Hamish Imlach who he first met in 1967. Christy also has a big tour kicking off this month so get your tickets quick.

On Saturday June 6th 2015 Halsway Manor will be running a 24 hour fund raiser to help secure their future with live folk music, dance and storytelling. Get involved and please help spread the word as the work they do is great.