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Kate Rusby’s 17th studio album “Philosophers, Poets & Kings” is utterly delightful; she journeys into new territory while maintaining that unshakeable bond to her musical heritage. One of her finest albums to date.

South Yorkshire’s Underneath the Stars Festival is organised by the family production team of acclaimed Yorkshire folk singer-songwriter Kate Rusby. Now in its fifth year, Kate talks to us about what makes a great festival in 2018.

Heading this year’s Underneath the Stars (20th – 22nd July 2018 Cinderhill Farm, Yorkshire) line-up are Grammy Award-winning songwriter and activist Steve Earle with his band The Dukes, as well as Barnsley born and bred Kate Rusby and more.

We caught up with Kate Rusby while on her Christmas tour, she reflects on what’s behind these special celebrations, the family and friends who take part, and her approach to the music itself. We also talk about her glittering, fun-filled new album Angels and Men and share her new video.

This week’s show is largely Christmas / Winter themed featuring festive music from Johnny Cunningham & Susan McKeown, Maggie Boyle & Gary Boyle, Sufjan Stevens, as well as new music from Kate Rusby, O’Hooley & Tidow, Peatbog Faeries and Damien O’Kane.

Blessed with a peerless voice, possessed of a remarkable talent for arranging both contemporary and traditional song, and surrounded by musicians of the highest calibre, with Angels & Men, Kate Rusby offers the very best musical backdrop anyone could hope for this Christmas.

We take a look at this year’s line-up for Underneath the Stars Festival which is run by Kate Rusby and her family-run record company Pure Records. With the likes of Lucy Rose, Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock, Show of Hands, Roddy Woomble and more, it’s shaping up beautifully.

For their 10th festival Folk by the Oak are welcoming back Kate Rusby – in the year that marks 25 years of her glorious music making. Kate was actually the original inspiration for a folk gathering at Hatfield House. Directors Caroline and Adam Slough imagined a sublime summer evening of music with Kate in stunning surroundings – an idea which sparked the birth of Folk by the Oak back in …

Jon Boden compiles The Ultimate Guide To English Folk, a lavish two-disc primer designed to appeal to experienced folkies and newbies alike. It is not the first such collection, but it is probably the most wide-ranging, lovingly compiled and inventively sequenced. One of the most important messages to take from this compilation is that while folk music in England is something of an extended family, it is by no means …

British folk heroine Kate Rusby and former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden are among the first headline acts announced to appear at the Gate To Southwell Festival next June, and reduced price tickets are now available.

Kate Rusby demonstrates on her 14th studio album that her artistry is constantly evolving. Avoiding the snares of the predictable while springing a few surprises, the expansive musical backdrops on the disc are full of interesting detail, both refreshing and stimulating: not an easy trick to pull off. One that will appeal to existing and new fans alike.

Kate Rusby will release her new album Life in a Paper Boat on October 7th. Watch her latest two videos including that Barnsley Yorkshire Tea fuelled superhero ‘Big Brave Bill’. Uk Tour kicks off this month.