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The Guardian newspaper is looking to its readers to recommend celestial songs and Folk Radio UK is recommending Reg Meuross and his track ‘The Man in the Moon’. If you’d like to get behind us then please head over there today or before midday tomorrow to make your choice.

Kevin Henderson, one of the most exciting young fiddlers on the world stage, has just released a new album titled ‘Fin da Laand Ageen’. You would think Kevin was a lot older than he is with his lengthy track record of collaborations as well as being a member of some of most well known Celtic music bands around.

Stephen Cracknell of the English folk collective The Memory Band recently put together a great mix featuring a wide spectrum of artists from Sandy Denny to Softcell! You can listen to it below. We’ve also included a great video of Stephen performing the track ‘Demon Days’ with Liam Bailey.

On their latest, the five-song EP, Where The Crow Don’t Fly, Portland, Oregon-based bluegrass revivalists the Water Tower Bucket Boys turn the genre upside down with their indie-fried take on the roots sound.

Beirut is set to embark on its first international tour in over four years in support of ‘The Rip Tide’. Few predicted the inward journey Condon has achieved on ‘The Rip Tide’, an album with the most introspective and memorable songs of his young career. Listen to the full album preview.

Ben Howard announces details of a second London date as part of his UK and Ireland headline tour in October and November. Plus watch his new video Every Kingdom album teaser.

Hotfooting from their hugely successful tour of the USA and Canada, The Outside Track return to UK to launch their first major tour of UK to support their critically acclaimed CD, Curious Things Given Wings.

A road closure due to late-running engineering work threatens to delay festival-goers attending Fairport’s Cropredy Convention festival. The event takes place on 11, 12 and 13 August and the organisers have recently announced a traffic management plan to minimise disruption.

Chamberlin is the biggest band from Vermont that no one there has ever really heard of. As their debut album Bitter Blood drops, the eight-month-old act finds themselves criss-crossing the country in the midst of national tours, having played but a handful of shows in their home state.

The following video of Joanna Newsom was recorded at Le Trianon, Paris on July 25, 2011. She treated the crowd to a second encore as well!

There is a great co-ordinated effort taking place at cleaning up the riot aftermath. Twitter is being used to get volunteers in the right places, the image above shows volunteers turning up with brooms and buckets to help out.

A three story warehouse owned by Sony DADC and based in Enfield went up in flames last night during the continued London riots. The PIAS Group which holds stock there is one of the main distributors for independent record labels in the UK.