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Over the coming months we are featuring a handful of recently-filmed intimate songs from Ewan McLennan. To kick things off, here by popular request is Ewan McLennan’s take on Bob Dylan’s Boots of Spanish Leather.

Our Song of the Day is a new charity single from Scottish folk singer and guitarist Ewan McLennan, the proceeds for which will go towards helping the incredible work of the humanitarian-aid organisation Doctors Without Borders.

Roots 66 is a new folk festival to be held at The Theatre By The Lake in Keswick over the weekend of Feb 5-7th 2016 which will incorporate two showcase concerts to celebrate 40 Years of Fellside Recordings. Lineup includes Chris While & Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, The Mighty Doonans, Ewan McLennan and more.

RANT, featuring four of Scotland’s finest fiddle players, are on tour (including their first London gig) and announce album preview at Celtic Connections with two special guests, Julie Fowlis and Ewan McLennan.

Coming up this month at Kings Place, London is a special Scottish weekend series of events featuring Roddy Woomble, Dick Gaughan, James Grant, Rura, Ewan McLennan, Sorren Maclean & Samantha Whates focusing on Scotland’s rich treasury of words and stories, and the strong tradition of songwriting.

Watch a new session from one of our finest singer songwriters – Ewan McLennan as he performs a beautiful guitar medley. This is one is perfect to escape to.

With Stories Still Untold being widely hailed as his best album yet Ewan McLennan generously took time out after his London, Foundling Folk show to talk exclusively to FRUK.

With its seamless, timeless blend of the traditional and the modern, Stories Still Untold should be in the top purchase list of any folksong fan and place Ewan amongst the music’s elite.

We have a great start to Monday with a live FRUK video session from Ewan McLennan, the first live session from his new album ‘Stories Still Untold’ out later this month.

We have a video première today from award winning songwriter, guitarist and singer Ewan McLennan in which he gives a unique insight into the making of his new album ‘Stories Still Untold’.

The Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee Ewan McLennan brought his soft warbling voice to the upper room of the Newhampton Pub in Wolverhampton and opened with the instrumental Jer the Rigger and Flowers of Edinburgh.

Ewan McLennan took the time to talk to Folk Radio UK about his latest album ‘The Last Bird To Sing’, what makes a troubador tick and whether the success of Rags & Robes took him by surprise.

Michael Farrant reflects on Ewan McLennan’s performance at Colchester Arts Centre…you certainly don’t meet a guitarist, singer and songwriter of this quality every day.

Martin Simpson curates a week of concerts and workshops at Kings Place alongside some of the biggest folk names out there!

Songlines Magazine is having its inaugral ‘Songlines Encounters Festival’ at London’s Kings Place on June 23-25. The event is to be curated by Songlines editor in chief, Simon Broughton and eight concerts have been programmed featuring major artists (see below) that Songlines are pleased to be championing.

The BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners for 2011 were announced tonight following during an award ceremony which went out live. There were many highlights of the evening as well as double wins for Chris Wood as well as Eliza Carthy and norma Waterson. Ewan McLennan also managed to pick up the Horizon Award! Find out the winners here.

The nominees for the Scottish Trad Music Awards called have recently been announced. It was great to see some familiar names including Edinburgh born Singer guitarist Ewan McLennan