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Canadian singer-songwriter Jerry Leger announces his new studio album ‘Donlands’ and shares the single and video “Three Hours Ahead Of Midnight” – “The video was filmed at the Imperial Pub in Toronto, which has been there since the ’40s and is one of the few remaining pubs of its type in the big city.”

Watch the beautiful animated video for ‘Thistle’, in which visual artist Alemşah Fırat translates Sophie Janna’s song, about hope in times of climate change, into a magical realistic narrative.

Georgia Shackleton announces her debut solo album ‘Harry’s Seagull’, and shares lead single and video ‘Windy Old Weather’ – a traditional folk song popular within the East Anglian fishing community but not so widely found elsewhere.

Our Song of the Day comes from Niamh Bury. Watch her performing her debut single, Beehive, live in Phoenix Park, Dublin. It’s not just her balletic vocals that stay with you after hearing this song, but also her tender and deeply poetic lyrics.

Our latest Track by Track comes from Manx blues guitarist and singer Davy Knowles with his new album ‘If I should Wander’. While musically, it is a departure from the music he’s best known for; it’s also his most striking album to date.

‘Arhoolie Records Down Home Music’ is a visual storytelling celebration of American roots music through unseen and newly scanned photographs by Chris Strachwitz, the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. The book also features a substantial 20,000-word essay by award-winning music journalist Joel Selvin.

From a ‘BBC In Concert’ recording, made on 4th January 1971 and featuring Jacqui McShee, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox, watch Pentangle performing ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’, from their ‘Sweet Child’ album.

Australian folk quartet The Heart Collectors share their video for ‘Sirius B’, a transcendent Folk-Pop ballad combining the hopeful discovery of love with nuanced and wistful mysteries.

Taken from their new album, The Beautiful Road, watch the latest video from Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly. ‘Calling All Angels’ was filmed and edited by Myles O’Reilly and features Rónán and Wexford hurler Diarmuid Lyng.

What better way to celebrate the last days of summer than attending Martin Hayes’ Masters of Tradition next week in Bantry, West Cork. Featuring Sam Amidon, The Begley Clann, Luka Bloom, Steve Cooney, Crash Ensemble, Kate Ellis, Cora Venus Lunny, Mick O’Brien, Ultan O’Brien, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and more.

Welsh/English folk duo ‘Filkin’s Drift’ look to an ancient Welsh bardic tradition in a radical approach to sustainable touring. To coincide with their debut EP, they will undertake an 870-mile walking tour of the Wales Coast Path, performing 40 shows along the way.

Andy Smith of Harp & a Monkey shares the video for ‘An English Village’, the title track of his first solo album, which combines English folk music with abstract electronica and offers a playful and often tongue-in-cheek look at traditional English village life.