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Johnny shares his musical highlights of Wickham Festival including Talisk, Kathryn Tickell & The Side, Mancunia, Ímar, Oysterband, Duncan Chisholm and more.

Kathryn Tickell’s new touring project ‘Tales and Tunes’ takes to the road in October when she is joined by Amy Thatcher and author David Almond to deliver a memorable evening of stories, songs and, of course, irrepressible music.

Water of Tyne is the first CD release from Magnetic North East CIC, a community interest company promoting the music, arts, culture and heritage of the North East of England. Brought together by Kathryn Tickell the album includes guest appearances from the likes of The Unthanks, Hannah Rickard, Bob Fox and Mike Tickell. A truly lovely collection.

Kings Place, London is to play host to a series of concerts ‘without voices’ – No Voices presents leading lights in the brand new wave of contemporary UK-based musicians changing perceptions about instrumental music borne out of folk traditions.

Ian Stephenson, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, has been announced as the new Folkestra Director, he takes over from founding director Kathryn Tickell.

Read our Live Review of The Shee’s launch of their Continuum Project at Celtic Connections also featuring Karine Polwart, Chris Wood, Andy Cutting, Kathryn Tickell and Martin Simpson.

In our ongoing ‘Guest Feature’ The Shee tell us all about their tenth anniversary Continuum project and their nominated collaborators. For their latest post Shona Mooney tells us about her choice – Kathryn Tickell.

To mark their ten-year milestone The Shee announce new collaborative project ‘Continuum’ featuring a host of well known folk composers. We will be hearing from each band member over the next six weeks in a special Folk Radio UK feature.

Our Tune of the Day is from Kathryn Tickell & The Side. Watch their new video for Dark Skies Waltz featuring some stunning time lapse footage filmed in the Northumberland National Park.

Kathryn Tickell and The Side bring together the influences that have shaped their music to create something elevating and wonderful, it takes the listener on a fascinating journey.

Kathryn Tickell & The Side have unveiled their new video for ‘Queen Of Pleasure’ which is taken from their eponymous debut album due out on 29th September 2014.

Kathryn Tickell & The Side announce their eponymous debut album which will be released on 29th September, followed by a UK tour in October / November.

In a special series of interviews we talk to various artists about their Sidmouth FolkWeek memories. We kick off with Northumbrian piper and tradition bearer Kathryn Tickell.

Kathryn Tickell along with her folk-classical ensemble The Side set off on their UK tour this month. Watch this live video of one of their performances.

We catch up with the folk trio Tyde and talk about how they manage their geographically dispersed musical relationship and discuss their new album ‘The Hidden Spoon’ due out this month!

As part of the Southbank Centre’s year-long festival The Rest Is Noise they will be turning the spotlight on folk music in February for a weekend of events under the title of The Rise of Nationalism.

Eliza Carthy teams up Bella Hardy, Lucy Farrell and Kate Young to form LAYLAM whose debut album is out this month. The word “Laylam” means “chorus” …a good reason to sing together in any setting.

We talk to Kathryn Tickell about her latest touring venture (and CD) ‘Northumbrian Voices’. A celebration of everything that has made her what she is today and which provides a greater ‘sense of place’ than anything she has done before.