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Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds (2nd Aug); Towersey Festival, Thame Showground (30th); The Grand, York Street, Clitheroe (18th Sept); mac Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park (19th); Theatre Severn (20th); The Castle, Wellingborough (23rd); The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge (24th); Lighthouse, Poole (25th); Martlets Hall, Civic Way, Burgess Hill (26th); Brixham Theatre, Brixham Town Hall (27th). martinsimpson.com

Tantz play at Sidmouth Folk

Week (3rd Aug); Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, By Beauly, Inverness (8th); Port Of Menteith Doune The Rabbit Hole, Cardross Estate (23rd); Tonder Festival (27th & 28th). tantz.co.uk

Ten Strings And A Goat

Skin appear at The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Milton Keynes (21st Aug); Worcester Live, Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate (22nd); FolkEast, Glemham Hall, Woodbridge (23rd); Green Note, Parkway, London (24th); Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-By-Sea (25th); Tonder Festival (27th & 28th); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (29th & 30th). tenstringsandagoatskin.com

Martin Carthy has solo appearances at Larmer Tree (19th July); Hackness Village Hall (31st); Croydon Folk Club (1st Aug); Wickham Festival, Blind Lane, Wickham (7th); FEVA, Frazer Theatre, Knaresborough (14th); Hull Folk Festiva, Kardomah 94 (15th); FolkEast, Glenham Hall, Little Glenham, Woodbridge (22nd & 23rd); Cornwall Folk Festival, Wadebridge Town Hall (28th); London Acoustic Guitar Show, Olympia Conference Centre, Kensington, London (13th Sept). alanbearmanmusic.co.uk/artists/ MartinCarthy.asp

Moulettes appear at Robin Hood Festival (5th Sept); Smugglers Festival, Deal (6th); The Atkinson, Southport (16th); The Citadel, St Helens (17th); Square Chapel, Halifax (18th); Hothouse, Morecambe (19th); Ramsbottom Festival (20th). moulettes.co.uk

The Barra Macneils from Cape Breton have UK dates at Aros Centre, Viewfield Road, Portree, Isle Of Skye (25th Aug); Gaiety Theatre, Carrick Street, Ayr (26th); Tønder Festival (28th); Shrewbury Festival (29th & 30th). barramacneils.com

Sheesham & Lotus & Son

RSVP Bhangra head to Port Eliot Festival, St Germans, Cornwall (1st Aug); Bath Folk Festival, Bath, Somerset (13th); Boomtown, Hampshire (16th). rsvpmusic.co.uk

Willie Watson plays at Oslo, London (28th July); Greystones, Sheffield (29th); Bodega, Nottingham (30th); Southern Fried Festival, Perth (1st & 2nd Aug); Ruby Lounge, Manchester (3rd); Hare And Hounds, Birmingham (4th); The Tunnels, Bristol (5th); Queens Parade Methodist Church, Bangor (7th); Leap Castle, Roscrea (8th); Coughlans Live, Cork (9th). williewatson.com

Sheesham & Lotus & Son play at The Kazimier, Liverpool (Sept 2nd); Grateful Fred’s @ The Atkinson, Southport (3rd); The Cross Keys, Selattyn, Shropshire (4th); South Holland Centre, Spalding (5th); Town Hall, Selby (6th); Cube Cinema, Bristol (7th); The Barn At Three Horse Shoes, Towersey (9th); The Green Note, London (10th); Druidstone Hotel, Haverfordwest (11th); The Catstrand, New Galloway (12th); The Border Club, Hawick (13th); The Studio In Live Theatre, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (14th); House Concert, Edinburgh (15th); The Old Library, Kilbarchan (16th); Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (17th); Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy (18th); Eden Court Theatre, Inverness (19th); The Tin Hut, Gartly By Huntly (20th) And Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (21st). sheeshamandlotus.com

Les Barker has summer dates at Saddleworth Folk Weekend, Oldham (19th July); Warwick Folk Festival (25th); Wickham Festival, Blind Lane (9th); Saltburn Folk Festival (14th & 15th). mrsackroyd.com

Steve Ashley appears at Festival At The Edge, Stokes Barn, Much Wenlock (18th July); Acoustic Roots Wigan Parish Church, Crawford Street, Wigan (24th); Bacca Pipes Folk Club, Ukrainian Club, Henry Street, Keighley (11th Sept); The Queens Head, Chesterfield Road, Belper (12th); Grimsby Folk Club, The Spider's Web Pub, Carr Lane (13th); Bridgwater Arts Centre, Castle Street, Bridgwater (25th). steveashley.co.uk

Tom Russell plays solo at The Real Music Club @ The Errigle Inn, Belfast (25th Sept); The Real Music

Club @ The Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart (26th); Whelan's, Dublin (27th); The Glee Club, Cardiff (29th); Empty Room Promotions, St John The Evangelist Church, Oxford (30th). tomrussell.com

Steve Tilston’s new album

Truth To Tell is out now and he appears at Sidmouth FolkWeek (31st July & 1st Aug); FolkEast, Woodbridge (21st); Whitby Folk Week (23rd & 24th); Purbeck Valley Folk Festival

(28th); Cornwall Folk Festival, Wadebridge w/Jez Lowe (29th); Calstock Hall w/Wizz Jones (30th); Bermondsey Folk Festival (6th Sep); Drigg Village Hall (11th); Thursby Village Hall (12th); Dorking Folk Club (16th); Stroud Folk Festival (19th); Milngavie Folk club (25th); Transclyde Music, Rothesay, Isle of Bute (26th) full tour details at stevetilston.com

Alasdair Roberts plays solo at Shambala Festival (29th Oct) and as Alasdair Roberts Trio, Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Usk Valley (21st Aug); and at Home Gathering, The Boiler Shop, Stephenson Works, Newcastle (22nd). alasdairroberts.com

Northern folk experimentalists Harp And A Monkey have put together a run of bespoke First World War ‘forgotten hero’ shows in the surviving landscape of the conflict here on home shores, at: Westfield War Memorial Village in Lancashire (at which they will perform to war veterans in a community built in 1919 for disabled and necessitous ex- servicemen) (22nd Aug); West Pennine Moor above Holcombe, Greater Manchester, (to perform a free public show in a bomb crater created by a Zeppelin attack in 1916) (23rd); HM Walton Prison, Liverpool, (which housed conscientious objectors in WW1) (24th). They will also be making a documentary of the three shows for broadcast later in the year. harpandamonkey.com

Kirsty Bromley plays at Nordic Church, Liverpool (13th Sept); Crookes Social Club, Sheffield (14th); Cecil Sharp House, London (15th); North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford (16th); The Lamp Inn, Village Pump, Trowbridge (17th). kirstybromley.com

Harp And A Monkey Naomi Bedford & Paul

Simmonds play at Larmer Tree Festival (18th July); Tolpuddle Festival (19th); Purbeck Festival (30th Aug); Anchor Folk Club, West Byfleet (17th Sept); Riverhouse Arts Centre (27th). naomibedford.co.uk

The Stray Birds return to the UK for Cambridge Folk Festival (1st Aug); Cecil Sharp House, London (19th;) Norwich Arts Centre (20th); Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford (21st); Black Box, Belfast (22nd); Spiegeltent, Edinburgh Fringe (23rd); St Andrews In The Square, Glasgow (25th). thestraybirds.com

Ewan McLennan Trio are at Sidmouth FolkWeek, Devon (31st July & 1st Aug); then Ewan plays solo at London Folk Festival, Cecil Sharp House (12th Sept); Llantrisant Folk Club, The Windsor Hotel, Pontyclun (23rd). ewanmclennan.co.uk

Jim Causley plays at Sidmouth Acoustic Sessions, St Teresa's Hall, Sidmouth (19th July); Underneath The Stars Cannon Hall Farm – daytime (26th); Chapel Arts Centre, Bath – evening (26th); Sidmouth FolkWeek (31st and 7th Aug); Cornwall Folk Festival, Wadebridge Town Hall, (30th). jimcausley.co.uk

CDs These recently in: The Albion

Band Under The Rose (Talking Elephant); Alyth Homelands (ANE Records); Les Ambassadeurs Rebirth (World Village); Appalachia The Judgement (own label); Khaira Arby Gossip (Clermont Music); Backyard Burners There’s A Box (own label); Amadou Balake In Conclusion (Sterns Africa); Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra Imbarca (Satélite); Susan Grace Bates Skorsa: The Riddle Of The Earth (own label); Seamus Begley The Bold Kerryman (IRL); Bicicletas Por La Paz Musica Por Puppets (own label); Big Galut(e) Big Galut(e) (own label); Bird Radio Oh, Happy England (Strike Force Entertainment); Bixiga 70 III (Glitterbeat Records); Bolo Bolo (own label); Boys Of The Lough

Photo: © Judith Burrows