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Leveret, a trio of Englands finest young folk musicians, will be performing in Swaledale on Friday, April 19, at Reeth Memorial Hall.

From contemporary Irish music to Scottish superstars, this month is jam-packed with events

In putting together their new album Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs Of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry, Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz and his latest trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson, knew for a fact that they weren’t the only musicians who’d long obsessed over Cecil Sharp’s “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians” collection.

When Grammy-nominated and IBMA Award-winning songwriter and guitarist Thomm Jutz got together with his latest trans-Atlantic collaborator, the 32-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-nominated Martin Simpson, the pair bonded over their long-running obsession with Cecil Sharp’s 1916 and 1918 collection, “English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians;” particularly those tunes from singers Mary Sands and Jane Gentry.

Sam Sweeney, perhaps the leading English folk fiddle player of his generation, will be coming to St Albans on Sunday, May 14 to play a solo concert…

Our new monthly feature highlights some of the most exciting events in folk music

Bristol24/7 sets out a bumper crop of don’t miss diary dates for festival season

Iowa Public Radio music hosts Karen Impola, Barney Sherman and Bob Dorr joined Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe to share the folk, classical, and blues releases they listened to in 2022.