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This week in Classic Folk: an exploration of the hidden and mysterious depths of folk music has unearthed unexpected treasures. Music by @jimmoray, Sarah McQuaid, @elizacarthy, Andy Cutting, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Edgelarks, Karine Polwart and many more. efdss.org/listen

3 HOURS OF #FOLKMUSIC on BBC Radio 6 Music tonight!! I'm sitting in for @GidCoe from 9pm with tunes by Stick In The Wheel Hack-Poets Guild @elizacarthy Richard Thompson Derya Yıldırım Show of Hands Frankie Archer The Wilderness Yet Emily Barker & many many more... RT Pls?

🗓️ WEDS FEB 1 Charlie Dore plays live on BBC Radio 2 and brings her wonderful stories to Mark Radcliffe #folkshow Jon Lewis #shortcircuittour

And now onto UK Song of the Year… The WINNER is ‘Car Crash’ by Hannah White (Written by Hannah White) #amauk23 @songsbyhannah

What a pleasure to hear both Laura Dannan and Emily Slade at Corn On The Cob at HertfordCornExchange tonight ❤️🤩 #HERTFORDSHIRE

Dear M Lill. I don’t know who you are, but reading this has really cheered me up 🥲🥲 Thank you x

Listen again REG MEUROSS's Good Morning Mr Colston on BBC Radio 2 #folkshow Mark Radcliffe bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Come, see & hear him live tonight Music at the Unicorn #abingdon! DM for press/radio/bookings #stolenfromgod #slavetrade #blackhistory #folk #untold #colston #bristol

Excellent to hear Fairport Convention and Dave Swarbrick on BBC Radio 3 right now thanks to Tom McKinney #playlisterchallenge and now Ian McMillan talking eloquently about @R3TheVerb this evening #endings in poetry and prose ❤️

Some absolutely lovely gigs these last couple of weekends 💕 #livemusic

😍We're having a wonderful time listening to John Froggett's very 1st radio show RoystonRadio Now John is talking about wonderful #Stevenage artist Kelly Oliver's track Bedlam. Sponsored by The Accountancy Practice #CommunityRadio #Royston #Hertfordshire #Rant roystonradio.com/listen

"Rather Lovely Electro-Folk" The account formerly known as RadMac on 6 Music - BBC Radio 6 Music Thanks to Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie for giving 'Broadcast The Secret Verse' its 1st National Radio play. 'Borderlands' blends into Sufjan's 'Fourth Of July' at 43 mins in. Couldn't have asked for a better companion piece.

And this is just the end of the *Sold Out* first half ❤️ Gigspanner Trio & Big Band/Saltlines #bigband in #hertford #awesome with charlieeeee (says it’s very grounding ‘going back to her roots’ Helen