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Oct 6, 2026

Thirty Six Years Of Croftwork.

With a musical appreciation fuelled by wanderlust and desire to fuse Highland Scots music with ever widening and progressive influences Shooglenifty have been regularly journeying off map for three and a half decades, winning new friends and...

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Oct 3, 2026

Wave - Zoe Cure.

One for autumn evenings sitting by the fire with a glass of red wine. 'Wave' delivers whispered intimacy over minimal arrangements, chiefly Cure and her guitar though there are others involved, what they contribute is breathy or drifting, gliding...

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Oct 2, 2026

Tier One tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival Weekend on Sale Today

TIER ONE TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER FOR CHERRY HINTON HALL WEEKEND FRIDAY 30 JULY – SUNDAY 1 AUGUST 2027 Tier One tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival weekend at Cherry Hinton Hall will go on sale today, Friday 2 October. With the...

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Tier One tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival Weekend on Sale …

TIER ONE TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER FOR CHERRY HINTON HALL WEEKEND FRIDAY 30 JULY – SUNDAY 1 AUGUST 2027 Tier One tickets for Cambridge Folk Festival weekend at Cherry Hinton Hall will go on sale today, Friday 2 October. With the...

Blair Dunlop announces new album Release

Blair Dunlop What Still Survives New album released on 30th October 2026 Award-winning singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop will release his sixth studio album, What Still Survives, on 30 October 2026 via Navigator Records. Produced by acclaimed...

Ranagri Announce New Album and Tour Dates

New album out November 20th exploring themes of migration, identity, belonging and the enduring search for the meaning of home Ranagri (pronounced Ran - ag – rye) takes its name from a stretch of farmland in County Carlow, Ireland, that has been in...

Folk ‘Supergroup’ Spell Songs release 3rd studio album.

“This album is a tremendous and powerful thing…singing bright and fierce right into our contemporary moment” Robert Macfarlane Commissioned by Folk by the Oak Festival, co-released and produced by Hudson Records, supported by Creative Scotland...

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Thirty Six Years Of Croftwork.

Oct 6, 2026

With a musical appreciation fuelled by wanderlust and desire to fuse Highland Scots music with ever widening and progressive influences Shooglenifty have been regularly journeying off map for three and a half decades, winning new friends and devotees at every turn....

Wet, Wet, Wet.

With many festivals cutting back, taking time out to re-establish in a new format or in some cases packing up altogether, Shrewsbury Folk Festival grows a pace with a bill as wide as a desert horizon, comfortable in its identity and Show...

HOT, HOT, HOT.

It’s always hot at Cropredy and it’s not just the weather. With record temperatures, shrivelled grass, dire water shortage predictions and lots of dust, Simon Jones journeyed once more to the Fairport Convention festival and found, music, more...

Silken Strings - A Beautiful Addiction.

Spiral Earth Remembers Barry Dransfield. It is with much regret and sadness that we note the passing of Barry Dransfield. He was a musician with experience and talent who never really got the acclaim he was due and spent the last couple of decades...

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Steeleye - A Different View.

On their second major tour in six months, the work ethic runs deep in Steeleye Span. Plaudits for the past couple of albums have been fulsome and the profile of the band is once more on the rise across the media. Alighting in Shropshire for a gig,...

A Man For All Seasons.

Ever since he appeared fresh from the Birmingham Conservatoire with a self-produced EP and loads of potential some 25 years ago Jim Moray has been constantly bending, twisting, reinventing traditional music into various contemporary forms. His...

How To Remember The Lady.

Where'd you draw the line between tribute and original thinking, between straight reproduction and progress? A tricky line to walk especially if the material you're dealing with is as much loved as that of the late Sandy Denny. The Sandy Denny...

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