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Jackie Oates along with her full band head out on tour in in March 2011 and as a special treat for fans she will be playing one song request each night. Jackie will announce the winning request from the stage each night!

You only need to read through The Bothy Band history to realise how big they were. All the names are world famous now and there is no escaping that they changed the face of irish traditional music forever.

Rising star of the acoustic music scene, Kit Holmes, will release her new album, Driving into the Blue, on 31st January 2011. Kit has just released a new video for Blues for Muse, a track from the new album, which you can watch below.

Celtic Connections 2011 kicks off one week today, with over 1500 musicians set to descend upon Glasgow between Thursday 13th– Sunday 30th January as the annual folk, roots, indie and world music festival celebrates its 18th birthday.

At once haunting and angelic, softly spoken and bitterly sung, the voice of tessa frith is set to see the light of day courtesy of Audio Sketch Record Label & the white leaf collective soon.

Caitlin Rose has announced that the brand new single from her hugely-acclaimed debut album will be the wonderful ‘Own Side’, which will be released on the 21st February via Names Records. Watch the video now.

The legendary Gerry Rafferty has died at the age of 63 after a long illness. Rafferty was born on April 16 1947 into a working-class family at Paisley and grew up in a council house on the town’s Glenburn estate.

Folkrock legends Fairport Convention will start their 2011 Winter Tour on Friday 28 January. This will be the band’s twenty-seventh consecutive Winter Tour and includes 32 venues throughout England and Wales.

It was great news to hear that Richard Thompson was to receive an OBE earlier but then I heard Dougie Maclean was to also receive an OBE which is fantastic news and about time I can hear many of you say!

Watch John Martyn performing with Kathy Mattea along with Danny Thompson on bass and Jerry Douglas on dobro! A classic moment in the Transatlantic Sessions!

I‘ve got three books on my top list that come highly recommended. The first one I intend to get completely lost in with ale and mincepies over Christmas: Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk Here’s a bit on each: Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk Greg Weeks of Espers (Foreword), Jeanette Leech (Author) In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent …

For our fifth frukie session we have Lawry Joseph Tilbury, better known as birdengine who has just released his first full length album the crooked mile. birdengine will also be touring in February.