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Leveret, featuring three of England’s finest folk musicians – Andy Cutting on melodeon, Sam Sweeney on fiddle and Rob Harbron on concertina, mark their ten years together with the release of their new album Forms and a UK Tour.

Topette’s ‘Bourdon’ is another album of delectably intoxicating grooves. The special blend of instrumental timbres, which when joyously carried aloft in the signature vigorously driven yet expertly controlled playing style, makes for a band sound that is literally unique.

In May, master guitarist Martin Simpson will be playing eight shows with melodeon maestro and close friend Andy Cutting. The tour will include new material that will form the core of Martin’s new solo album, due for release next March.

Featuring Andy Cutting, Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davis, Rosie Hood and more, Locations is the result of the efforts of three Liverpool students who drove across the North of England in a red Corsa filled with audio and film equipment to record six musical combinations in six different locations.

English folk trio Leveret, featuring Andy Cutting on melodeon, Sam Sweeney on fiddle and Rob Harbron on concertina, head out on the road this October for a series of tour dates in celebration of their Variations Live album.

‘Variations: Live’ marks a new development for the folk trio Leveret, we catch up with their concertina player Rob Harbron to talk about the album and hopes for 2021.

Anglo-French band Topette!! featuring Barnaby Stradling, Andy Cutting, Julien Cartonnet, James Delarre and Tania Buisse head out on tour this month before recording a new album. Watch their new video for a set of French polkas.

With their superb fourth album Diversions now out, busy super-folk trio Leveret spoke to us about spontaneity in the band, shifting roles and playing with better musicians.

Diversions is the clearest statement of Leveret’s ability yet, an album packed with beautiful, gentle, energetic and fluid works, and it fully establishes this band as one of the very finest in English instrumental music.

Consisting of Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron, Leveret are a unique collaboration that has come to represent the very finest of English folk music. Their top-class musicianship and intuitive interplay have made them one of the most captivating trios on the scene.

The Ballad of Child Migration takes to the road in November 2018 featuring an All-star cast with award-winning folk artists: John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick, Boo Hewerdine, O’Hooley & Tidow, Chris While, Julie Matthews, John Doyle, Jez Lowe, Andy Seward, Andy Cutting and narrated by Barbara Dickson.

Topette!!’s debut album C’est Le Pompon is one that should be on all your radars. It’s all here, beautifully whipped up and raring to go – a wonderful melange of French, English, and all points East, West, North and South.

Since their formation, Leveret have been one of the most enviably talented groups of folk musicians on the circuit, but with the sheer creativity shown on Inventions they have moved up another gear.

Anglo-French acoustic dance combo Topette!! are on tour through December (ft. Andy Cutting, James Delarre, Julien Cartonnet, Tania Buisse, and Barnaby Stradling), one band you know you can keep warm to no matter how cold the venue…you just dance! Plus they are recording an album…all fantastic news!

‘Cutty Sark’ is playing host to some top folk performers this autumn including The James Brothers, Andy Cutting and Fisherman’s Friends who will be performing a rousing set of shanties and Cornish folk songs in a musical celebration of the 147th anniversary of Cutty Sark’s launch.

Three of England’s finest folk musicians: Andy Cutting, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron are on the road again this month as Leveret for the launch of their latest album ‘In the Round’. Watch them performing The Good Old Way from their latest album.

Kings of the South Seas launch new ‘Free Folk’ series featuring an array of musical friends spontaneously creating music….Vol. 1 features squeeze box virtuoso Andy Cutting like you’ve never heard before…no boundary is sacred!

The wonderfully original Blowzabella will be hitting the road in May to play a series of dates across England as well as headline the main stage at FolkEast in Suffolk on Saturday 20 August – one you don’t want to miss!