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    A Morris toddler in Bampton

    Folk Music, books and screen time for babies and toddlers (or how to tradinate your child)

    Libby Bove, folk artist, in a field of corn.

    So turns the wheel of the M.O.T. – an interview with artist, Libby Bove

    The Nettle Dress promo poster, featuring Oonagh Brown walking through Limekiln Wood wearing her nettle dress.

    The Nettle Dress – a review and director’s Q&A

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    Customs Uncovered: The Stick and Bucket Dance

    The end of the torchlit procession on St John’s Eve. The Golowan Band play the final tune of the night.

    Golowan – Penzance’s midsummer celebration

    White Rose Morris dancing at dawn on May Day, 2011, at Castle Hill in Almondbury - Photo credit Bryony Griffith

    May Day Morris: Where to find Morris dancing near me

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    Customs Uncovered: The Stick and Bucket Dance

    A member of Boss Morris, decked in greenery, smiles for the camera. She is standing in a woodland glade on Rodborough Common, Stroud.

    Dancing up the Sun – May Day, 2023

    White Rose Morris dancing at dawn on May Day, 2011, at Castle Hill in Almondbury - Photo credit Bryony Griffith

    May Day Morris: Where to find Morris dancing near me

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    John Spiers, or Squeezy as he is known, playing the melodeon in a black and white photograph advertising his appearance on the Old Songs Podcast discussing The Princess Royal.

    The Old Songs Podcast: Se2Ep8 – ‘Princess Royal’, ft. John Spiers

    Jon Wilks plays guitar at Dorking Folk Club, 2018

    The Old Songs Podcast: Se2Ep7 – ‘The Gloucestershire Wassail / The Wassailing Song’, ft. Jon Wilks

    Burd Ellen, Debbie Armour and Gail Brogen, with flowers in their mouths. The image is black and white.

    The Old Songs Podcast: Se2Ep6 – ‘When I was on Horseback/ The Unfortunate Rake’, ft. Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen)

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    Handbags and Broomsticks: Molly Dancing for the uninitiated

    A woggle hopping obstacle in the wild. The picture is actually of a red postbox in Wiltshire on a pretty summer's day, but woggle hopping often involved postboxes

    Customs uncovered: Woggle Hopping

    The source singer Cecilia Costello - photo by Bob Etheridge

    Women in folk: celebrating the source singers

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    Which traditional songs and tunes were used in The Gallows Pole?

    Martin Simpson in concert at Whitchurch Folk Club, Hampshire. He is in the spotlight, holding his guitar and smiling. There is a prominent swallow tattoo on his right forearm.

    Simpson at 70: A new interview with the legendary folk guitarist

    Introducing the Tradfolk Takeover at FolkEast

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Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay, a review

Gavin McNamara takes a listen to the new album from Jim Ghedi and Toby Hay and finds a warm-hearted, mid-summer celebration.
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Louis Campbell and Sam Sweeney in shadows.
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Sam Sweeney & Louis Campbell, Shapes – a review

Locked away in a church in Derbyshire, Sam Sweeney continues to conjure up nourishment for the soul.
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Reg Meuross, Stolen from God – a review

Stolen from God, a new song cycle from Reg Meuross, marks the culmination of four years digging into the hellish history of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Nathaniel Mann, Marry Waterson and Lisa Knapp - the three members of Hack Poets Guild - stand in a row, with their visages sliced as if in a collage.
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Hack-Poets Guild, Blackletter Garland – a review

Out of the annals of history and into exciting new territory, folk supergroup, Hack-Poets Guild, create an auspicious sonic universe with Blackletter Garland, their ambitious debut.
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Jenn Butterworth & Will Pound, Volume 1 – a review

Jenn Butterworth & Will Pound release Volume 1, a collection of traditional and original tunes that swerve into gloriously bluesy territory whenever the mood takes them.
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The Best Folk Albums of the Year, 2022

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Shirley Collins, Archangel Hill – a review

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George Sansome & Matt Quinn, Sheffield Park – a review

George Sansome & Matt Quinn kickstart their new duo with Sheffield Park, an album on which they wear their love of traditional folk songs firmly on their sleeves.
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Harbottle & Jonas, Saving The Good Stuff Vol.1 – a review

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Jennie Higgins, folk singer, stands in a railway station, staring straight into the camera. She is leaning against a white pillar.
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Jennie Higgins – Where Are All the Women? A review

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Archie Churchill-Moss, PH(R)ASE – a review

PH(R)ASE is a gorgeous new solo album of instrumental tunes by melodeon player extraordinaire, Archie Churchill-Moss. Abbey Thomas kicks off 2023 listening to some of the most beautiful music she has heard in a long time.
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The Furrow Collective, The Longest Night – a review

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