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Rockin’ Sea Shanty band The Salts set sail on a UK tour starting this week at the Wokingham Music Festival and includes other great venues/festivals including the Great British Folk Festival where they will be performing alongside the likes of Steeleye Span, Eddie Reader, Barbara Dickson, Tom Robinson and many more.
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Liam Frost has released brilliant new single Mercy Me, taken from the cult Manchester singer-songwriter’s first album for a decade, The Latchkey Kid, due September 13 via AWAL. The album also contains previous singles Pomona and The Slow Knife, which were both playlisted at Radio X.
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Foy Vance has unveiled a stunning acoustic performance video of “Wind Blows Chloe”, a track from his forthcoming album To Memphis, which will be released on September 6, 2019 on Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records/Atlantic Records
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Spain-born, American-raised and UK-based singer/songwriter Sarah McQuaid is heading out on the road again for 12 solid weeks of touring, with 35 shows in the USA and 22 in the UK (57 concerts in total), starting on September 6th and winding up back in her adopted home county of Cornwall on November 30th
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Ferris & Sylvester have sold out their largest headline show to date at Omeara on September 5th, and due to huge demand the band have announced a second show at the venue the following day.
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Minnesota folk-blues artist Charlie Parr has shared his song “Cheap Wine” from his upcoming eponymous new album, out August 30 on Red House Records.
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Fink has today released ‘We Watch The Stars’, the first track to be taken from the acclaimed artist’s seventh studio album due later this year, co-produced with Flood. The single received its radio debut on BBC 6Music this morning as Lauren Laverne’s ‘While You Were Sleeping Track Of The Day.’
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Foy Vance has unveiled a stunning acoustic performance video of ‘I Won’t Let You Fall’, recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis. The track is taken from Vance’s new album ‘To Memphis’, which will be released on September 6 on Ed Sheeran’s label Gingerbread Man Records.
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Kerri Watt has unveiled the brilliant new video for her debut Cooking Vinyl single ‘Cut Me Loose’. Inspired by ‘I, Tonya’, one of Kerri’s favourite recent movies, the promo was directed by Jake Ringsell and filmed at London’s Alexandra Palace ice rink.
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Having just played a run of big support shows with The Dead South on their UK tour, the band will be touring throughout the UK until November.
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