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In a new EFDSS video series, Jon Boden heads to Cecil Sharp House where he delves through their record collection to select some favourites revealing some stories along the way including the revelation that he wanted to play the pipes.

Next month, Smithsonian Folkways are to release “Just Around the Bend: Survival and Revival in Southern Banjo Sounds”. The 2CD/DVD set honours the life and legacy of Mike Seeger recorded months before his death in 2009.

Warner Bros. Pictures have announced they are to release a cinematic film version of Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, ‘Western Stars’, worldwide, on the big screen.

Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos.

James P Honey (Buriers) is now the subject of a fascinating new short documentary directed by Pascal Boudet. In the space of just over 8 minutes we get a fascinating look inside Honey’s world and what feeds his music, poetry and prose.

O’Hooley & Tidow’s song ‘Gentleman Jack’ will feature as the closing theme song for each episode of Sally Wainwright’s BBC/HBO drama ‘Gentleman Jack’.  Starring Suranne Jones as 19th Century diarist, writer, traveller, mountaineer, rural gentlewoman, and industrialist Anne Lister.

Fisherman’s Friends the movie is as heartwarming and wholesome as a pasty on a drizzly day in Port Isaac. And it may well take the country by storm just like the shanty men who inspired the tale. Accompanying the release is the film’s soundtrack album ‘Keep Hauling’.

Watch Come On Up To The House (The Movie) featuring Glen Hansard (The Frames), Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Bitch Falcon, a number of the Begley family and more.

Fisherman’s Friends the movie is in cinemas from March 15th. It is inspired by the story of 8-piece Cornish singing group Fisherman’s Friends who signed a major record deal in 2010 and their album “Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends” went Gold. Watch the movie trailer.

This short film from National Museums Scotland looks at community buyouts and how they aim to redistribute Scotland’s land by putting it in the hands of the people who live and work in the local area.

A truly spectacular Festival event, DUST brings the culture and soul of American noir to the Edinburgh Fringe and showcases the music-making process…a stunning live performance piece.

Who knows how to stem the tide except through dreams? – One night an old seaman dreams the ocean into his bed. His sea green sheets become the polluted waters of his worst nightmare. His own mortality is at risk as his household objects begin to suffocate him.

Tired of city life and in search of adventure they both set off on a 10,000-mile journey from London to Budapest and back – embracing spontaneity and with no plan they set off with two motorbikes, pots and pans, essential clothes, two cameras and a large bag of rice.

Watch the video for Goat’s new single ‘Let it Burn’ which featured in the documentary Killing Gävle which you can also watch in full – about the annual fight between local custodians and mischievous pagans for the spirit of Christmas in the small city of Gävle in northern Sweden.

Mulberry is a short film by Paul Stone about the gentrification of a small section of Manhattan where the rich and famous have chosen to live.

Arcadia is a new film from Scottish director Paul Wright. Using over 100 archive film clips from the last 100 years and a score by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) it explores the beauty and brutality, magic and madness of our changing relationship with the land and each other.

Glaswegian spirits writer Dave Broom has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a road-trip documentary called The Amber Light which will highlight the lesser known parts of Scottish culture and history through the lens of whisky, with personalities from art, music, literature and food.

A small rural church, a disused airfield, an old railway wagon, and the winding room of a former colliery – these are the intriguing sites that provide the backdrop for a new documentary from Harp and a Monkey.