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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.

Kate Rusby and her band led by Damien O’Kane provided an evening of top entertainment at Oxford’s Playhouse Theatre – surreal, hypnotic and wondrous…they did not disappoint.

We catch up with Kate Rusby, our Artist of the Month, before she heads out on Christmas tour – bringing a Merry Yorkshire Christmas to venues around the country. She also reveals plans for the coming year and we have her new video to share!

With her new album Kate Rubsy takes her own, beloved, Christmas traditions; adds some of that unique Rusby magic and provides her audience with a large helping of genuinely warm, heartfelt Christmas cheer.

Underneath the Stars Festival which is co-run by Kate Rusby and situated near Barnsley have put together a great line up. The festival is running for three full days this year and artists include Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eddi Reader, Martin Simpson, Bruce Molsky, Bob Fox, The Young’uns, Damien O’Kane, Keston Cobblers Club, Siobhan Miller, Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston, Luke Daniels and Jim Causley. Watch our video preview.

Kate Rusby works her magic once again at the Civic Theatre, Chelmsford – an invitation to step outside of your own world and to join hers for a brief moment, to become part of the great tradition that has seen songs passed to her from her parents and from her and Damien to their children. A superb evening that our reviewer Paul shares here.

In the first of our two part exclusive interview we take Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman back to their musical origins. They provide us with an exclusive and fascinating insight into their early days and folk supergroup Equation. Kathryn and Sean are our Artists of the Month for April.

The Mark Radcliffe Folk Sessions EP featuring Kate Rusby has been released via iTunes on which she performs songs from her album ‘Ghost’. Kate also kicks off her UK tour next month at The Sage, Gatehead on 15th April.

With the release of her stunning new album ‘Ghost’ FRUK talk to one of the most celebrated voices on the English folk scene – Kate Rusby. She looks back at her 20 and more years on the British folk scene.

Having passed the 20 year mark in her extraordinary career, Kate Rusby is busy as ever, with a brilliant new album Ghost, a UK tour and two young’uns to educate in the family’s musical tradition.

Swedish sextet West of Eden sound like a homegrown British folk band – produced by Damien O’Kane and feat. Kate Rusby and Michael McGoldrick this is really worth checking.

This years Garforth Arts Festival proved to be a a great day which included great performances from folk music favourites Lau, Kate Rusby and the perfect finale from Bellowhead.

The hugely talented multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and painter Barry Kerr has released a beautiful new single ‘The Leaving Song’ which is accompanied by a new video. Watch it now.