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This year’s Towersey Festival features a staggering line-up with 12 stages and over 100 artists including Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy, Mama Rosin, Spiers & Boden, The Blockheads and many more!

Universal Music have announced the release of a definitive John Martyn box set covering his classic years with Island Records and scheduled for release in September 2013.

Watch the Folk Radio UK Exclusive Video Premiere of Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker’s ‘Fire and Fortune’, the title track from their forthcoming album on Navigator Records.

From midnight on Sunday big changes will take place on Folk Radio UK. Find out more about what’s coming including new on-demand content.

This weeks Songs from the Ark features new tracks from Meschiya Lake & Little Big Horns, Benjamin Folke Thomas, Leeroy Stagger and Slaid Cleaves and many more.

Lanterns on the Lake have just announced an extensive UK tour in October to follow the release of their much-anticipated new album Until The Colours Run.

Today marks one of the most important events in the history of EFDSS with the launch of the World’s biggest free digital archive of English Traditional Folk Music and Dance Music.

Cambridge based folk singer Polly Paulusma announces fan support success. Leaves from the Family Tree to be released on vinyl, listen to this wonderful album in full here.

Today sees the premiere release of a new in-the-studio video from The Civil Wars for “The One That Got Away (Studio Cut)” watch it here.

One of Spiers & Boden’s many fine releases was their very first Album. ‘Through & Through’ is now to be re-issued after being unavailable since 2010.

The Liberty to Choose is a new compilation from Fellside featuring Brian Peters, James Findlay, Bella Hardy and Lucy Ward singing songs from ‘The New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs’.

Listen in full to ‘Fever to the Form’ the highly anticipated EP from Nick Mulvey which was released on Communion Records yesterday.