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Towersey Festival announce live album ‘Roy Bailey: Remembered’ featuring Tom Robinson, Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, The Wilson Family, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, John Kirkpatrick and more including family and friends.

The legendary protest folk singer and humanitarian Roy Bailey has died at 83. He had struggled with heart failure for over 30 years. He is responsible for inspiring many young protest singers of today and that legacy will continue.

Roy Bailey is to launch his first ever full live album at Towersey Festival. It features guest appearances by Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Roy’s daughter Kit, and grand-daughter Molly.

In part 2 of our live review of this year’s Wickham Festival we take in the Moulettes, Kathryn Tickell and The Side, Eliza Carthy and The Wayward Band, Seth Lakeman, Billy Bragg, The Hut People, Megson and more.

Johnny continues his review of Towersey Festival taking in performances from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Lau, interviews with Blair Dunlop, Urban Folk Quartet and more. Plus a look at the future…

Sheffield folk collective ‘Bright Phoebus’ which includes Martin Simpson, Jon Boden, Roy Bailey, Sam Sweeney, Fay Hield, James Fagan and Nancy Kerr will pay tribute to Tom Waits at Shrewsbury Folk Festival this year.

Music has been used to spread messages; political, romantic, historical, for hundreds, probably thousands of years. It’s an effective medium and the musical traditions we’re so proud of owe their very existence to this fact. The trouble is, of course, that almost any message is open to interpretation. This CD, and the Folk Against Fascism movement it supports, have come about because of the misappropriation of British folk music and …