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Part one – Best Folk Music Albums of 2015 including: Alasdair Roberts, Anna & Elizabeth, Darren Hayman, Marry Waterson, LAU, SImpson Cutting Kerr, The Rheingans Sisters, This is the Kit, The Weather Station, Trembling Bells, Ryley Walker and more.

This coming January Scarborough Spa Theatre hosts a unique event celebrating the “grande dame” of British folk music Norma Waterson MBE along with the extended Waterson/Carthy dynasty and some very special friends and guests.

Our latest mix features some of the best new folk music out there today and the majority of the tracks are very new releases. Alongside some well know artists are also some relative newcomers. Enjoy and share!

We have a very special video premiere for Emily Portman’s ‘Seed Stitch’, her new single out today. To coincide, she’ll also play a BBC live session for Mark Radcliffe’s Folk Show tonight before kicking off her tour later this week. Don’t miss out!

Blow Out The Moon is a well-chosen selection of some of the less well-known traditional folk songs, presented with immaculate arrangements, precision musicianship and flawless harmonies. It makes the ideal companion to their debut album.

Rob catches up with Emily Portman and she shares the creative process behind her latest album Coracle – inspiration coming from motherhood, trips to sacred sites around North Wales and meetings with a Liverpudlian poet.

There’s no doubt that Emily Portman has, with a little help from her friends, created and curated a dazzling display of writing and musicianship, but the real success of Coracle lies in the balancing of many seemingly disparate aspects to create an intensely luminous collection of songs whose articulate lyrics, virtuoso performances and intricate arrangements never overshadow the very real humanity which is at the heart of it all.

One of the most remarkable vocal harmony trios ‘The Devil’s Interval’ feat. Lauren McCormick, Emily Portman & Jim Causley reunite for mini tour and Sidmouth Folkweek. Watch them warming up for the tour as they perform Silver Dagger.

Emily Portman will release her new album in June titled Coracle. It promises to be her most ambitious release to date. Produced by Andy Bell it features featuring her regular trio of Rachel Newton & Lucy Farrell as well as a number of guest musicians from the world of folk music including Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney.

Kings Place hosts Outlandish Nights from 27 – 29 March 2014, a mini-series co-curated by acclaimed songwriters Alasdair Roberts and Emily Portman. Find out more here.

Watch the FRUK Première of the new video from The Furrow Collective for ‘I’d Rather be Tending my Sheep’ which was made by singer and gifted animator Marry Waterson.

Rachel Newton, Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts combine to make ‘At Our Next Meeting’ one of the finest collaborative albums of the past few years.