At Salut Live We’ve been enjoying Jim Wirth’s selection for Mojo of the best folk albums of 2024. His top pick, Astrid Williamson ‘s Shetland songs is a thing of beauty—which we’d missed completely. Colin Randall salutlive.com/2024/12/mojos-…

At Salut! Live we’ve just launched ‘12 Days of Winter’—a set of seasonal #folk songs running from tomorrow until Xmas Eve. By way of a warm-up today, if that’s the right word, we have Magpie Arc’s ‘Jack Frost’, featuring Martin Simpson. Colin Randall salutlive.com/2024/12/introd…

First day: In Dulci Jubilo by Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band salutlive.com/2024/12/cr-win…

First shout for Andrew Curry’s neat idea of 12 Days of Christmas and/or winter : salutlive.com/2024/12/cr-win…

Day 2 of Salut! Live’s 12 Days of Winter: Here We Come A Wassailing by the Watersons from 1965 when they were folk music’s Beatles salutlive.com/2024/12/day-1-… Andrew Curry @elizacarthy Colin Randall

Two front teeth, that bow-wow daddy wouldn’t buy. @elizacarthy and Jon Boden set their Christmas sights higher salutlive.com/2024/12/12-day… Andrew Curry Colin Randall

‘Katherine Priddy’s The Pendulum Swing felt completely timeless’. The ultimate seal of approval for Katherine Priddy ? salutlive.com/2024/12/folk-r… Colin Randall Andrew Curry

For open-minded music lovers, Salut! Live offers the blues, North-eastern folk and a Sandy Denny tribute with a difference Andrew Curry Colin Randall

The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

In case you missed it - add Spain to the list turning on Musk

Just wondering how long it is before European democracies block Twitter.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and

Keir and Kemi finally agree: White Refugees Only! #pmqs

Tonight's Silent Walk marked the 8th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. By next year the Tower will be demolished but the struggle will go on until all the victims get justice.

There's always a tweet. This from 2018, when Yvette Cooper still had a backbone.

Our Song of the Day at the renamed Salut! #Folk site—now migrated to Wordpress—is all about Richard Thompson. salutfolk.com/2025/09/27/ric…

Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress. salutfolk.com/2025/09/30/dan…

.Duolingo is so busy rewriting their German site to put in cheerleading noise that they have broken the bits that actually teach you the language. Good work, team!

On the new and new-look Salut! #Folk site, our joint artists of the month are Martin and Eliza Carthy. salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/art… Colin Randall, Eliza Carthy