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Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band will be on tour this month and through December across the country – watch her new video for ‘I Wish That The Wars Were All Over’ featuring Damien Dempsey. We also have a pair of tickets to giveaway for each tour date.

LAU announce LAU-LAND Glasgow featuring workshops, discussions, sessions and live concerts from the likes of Eliza Carthy, Siobhan Miller, Cormac Begley, Sam Amidon, Pictish Trail, Jaimini Jethwa, Brighde Chaimbeul and more.

Watch Eliza Carthy performing Worcester City, accompanied by David Delarre on guitar, recorded during the Barbican Centre Music Library’s Topic Records Exhibition earlier this year.

If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the current English folk revival, it’s Eliza Carthy – so don’t miss Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band on their First Major UK Tour – including London, Glasgow & Cardiff.

Watch the brand new video from Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band featuring Teddy Thompson. The band find themselves in a remote village hall with a miserable audience. But things soon brighten up as the band take to the dancefloor. Also new Tour Dates announced!

Listen to Eliza Carthy performing The Sea, recorded at dusk in her garden. As featured on the forthcoming Stick in the Wheel compilation album ‘From Here: English Folk Field Recordings.’

Listen to a remix by Stick in the Wheel’s Ian Carter – ‘Aleppo In The Sun As It Was’ features Eliza Carthy and MC Dizraeli. The track featured on Eliza Carthy’s recent limited edition tour CD EP.

Big Machine is an album of unrestrained ambition and masterful execution from a performer at the very top of her game. It has all the hallmarks of a vastly important release, and should cement Eliza Carthy’s place as one of our most valuable musicians.

Our Song of the Day comes from Waterson:Carthy, this Union Chapel gig from 2002 was recorded live for BBC4 and for this performance featured both Saul Rose and Tim Van Eyken alongside Norma Waterson, Martin and Eliza Carthy.

An exhibition exploring the history of Topic Records, at Barbican Centre Music Library. We also have a ticket competition for two very special live events – featuring Eliza Carthy, in conversation with journalist Colin Irwin and Topic’s David Suff (plus acoustic performance) and an evening of the same featuring two supreme folk guitarists, Martin Carthy & Martin Simpson.

Don’t miss Normafest – a wonderful weekend in celebration of all things to do with folk music legend Norma Waterson in early January. Featuring: Stick in the Wheel, Lynched, The Furrow Collective, The Gift Big Band which will include Norma, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Neill MacColl & special guest Richard Hawley.

The beginning of 2016 saw the release of the Songs of Separation album, a project featuring Jenny Hill, Eliza Carthy, Hannah James, Hannah Read, Hazel Askew, Jenn Butterworth, Karine Polwart, Kate Young, Mary Macmaster and Rowan Rheingans. To mark its end a final film was commissioned called ‘The Album and Beyond,’ watch it here.