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Matt Norris & the Moon are a cracking folk band based in Edinburgh. Lovers of Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn will love them!

With a new website, new album looming and a new promotional video, Scotland’s Treacherous Orchestra are already eager to light the fuse to fire into 2012.

Watch Josh T Pearson’s new video session for Drive Her Out + catch him this week on his UK Tour!

Watch Yo-Yo Ma’s Tiny Desk Concert featuring: bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolinist Chris Thile and fiddler Stuart Duncan plus special guest Aoife O’Donovan of Crooked Still.

Andrew James O’Brien and the Searchers hail from Newfoundland and have just released their debut album Songs for Searchers

Emily Barker and Frank Turner have released a free download ahead of their UK Tour. You can hear it and watch the video below!

Fleet Foxes unveil stunning 8 minute animated video to “The Shrine / An Argument”, watch it now!

Watch the latest Avant Garde Diaries video which looks at the work of Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie (Winged Victory For The Sullen).

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Nominees for 2012 are announced. Tickets to be made available to the public for the first time.

Folk Radio UK has the great pleasure of premiering the first new Balto track titled Gravestones to appear on their as yet unnamed new album.

Liz Green recently visited Rough Trade West to promote her debut Album ‘O, Devotion!’ Watch it now:

Finsbury Smith is very much the modern day folk singer he sings about real issues that touch raw nerves that would rather be left alone.