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Next month, Vinyl180 will release two very special albums in their Topic Records Introduction series – A double LP Real Sound Of Folk Compilation and Shirley Collins – An Introduction To. We have copies to giveaway and a special discount offer for all Folk Radio UK readers.

Considered by many as a classic folk album, Nic Jones’ ‘Penguin Eggs’ is Vinyl180’s first release from the Topic Records archives on lovely 180g vinyl with a newly designed inner bag with the initial 500 copies pressed on WHITE vinyl. We have two to giveaway!

Geoff Lakeman steps into the limelight at 69 to release his debut solo album. Featuring a host of special guests including the Lakeman brothers, Cara Dillon, Kathryn Roberts and nearby neighbour Nic Jones.

An exhibition exploring the history of Topic Records, at Barbican Centre Music Library. We also have a ticket competition for two very special live events – featuring Eliza Carthy, in conversation with journalist Colin Irwin and Topic’s David Suff (plus acoustic performance) and an evening of the same featuring two supreme folk guitarists, Martin Carthy & Martin Simpson.

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 …

Listen to a live set from Blair Dunlop which he performed earlier this year at Australia’s Port Fairy Folk Festival. The set includes his own material and a great Nic Jones cover.

The documentary: ‘The Enigma of Nic Jones: Return of Britain’s Lost Folk Hero’ is to be shown as part of the Sensoria Festival of Music and Film in September.

Anyone attending this year’s Sidmouth FolkWeek (2nd – 9th August) is going to be thoroughly spoilt for choice with the line-up which stretches from the folk music icons to rising stars. Check the highlights for this year!

Read our special feature on the BBC Folk Awards 2013. Find out who the winners were, watch the video performance highlights and find out what else went on. You can also stream the BBC Folk Awards 2013 Album!

Kate Rusby talks to Folk Radio UK about her new album ’20’ which features a host of well known guests including Nic Jones, Paul Weller, Dick Gaughan, Ruchard Thompson and many more!

Kate Rusby is to release a new album entitled ’20’ which celebrates her twenty years of making music. The album features a new track and duet with Paul Weller as well as a host of folk giants from Richard Thompson to Nic Jones!

Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow talk about their latest release ‘The Fragile’, their musical partnership & how they came to perform with the legendary Nic Jones. Catch them performing together at this year’s Towersey Folk Festival.

A new mix for you all featuring mostly artists from the British Folk music scene including The Woodbine and Ivy Band, Fay Hield, Jon Boden, Mawkin, The Imagined Village, Lisa Knapp and more.

Watch a trailer for a new Nic Jones documentary from Michael Proudfoot who also made documentaries on Eliza Carthy, Kathryn Tickell and Kate Rusby. You also may be able to help in the making of it.

Nic Jones is to receive the Gold Badge Award of the EFDSS. To commemorate this event Nic will be joined by his son Joe, and many of his friends from the folk world in a special performance at Cecil Sharp House, London.

This weeks Propermusic Podcast is the first of a two-part Topic Records special, David Suff and Tony Engle join Trevor Dann to discuss the folk label’s 70+ year history and some of its classic releases.

Cambridge Folk Festival reveal some of the first artists confirmed for 2012’s eclectic bill: Nic Jones, June Tabor and the Oysterband, Bill Bragg and more.

The second in our Tradition mixes. It features both new and old from an old pub session from 1967 featuring Bobby Casey to Christy Moore, Kris Drever, Kate Rusby, Gavin Davenport and more!