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The Sage, Gateshead (17th); Middlesbrough St Barnabas (18th); Limelight Theatre, Aylesbury (24th). megsonmusic.co.uk

Police Dog Hogan launch their new album at Nells Jazz and Blues Club, London (22nd Feb); Con Club, Lewes (23rd); Arlington Arts, Newbury (24th); City Hall, Salisbury (25th), with more to follow in March. policedoghogan.com

Ray Cooper spreads Love & Police Dog Hogan

English folk song. Gig dates include: Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead (15th); Cecil Sharp House, London (16th); Gill Nethercott Centre, Whitchurch, Hampshire, with The Andover Museum Loft Singers (not Jim Causley) (18th). bryonygriffith.com

Steamchicken’s new album

Look Both Ways is released in February with live dates at Shakespeares, Sheffield (11th Feb); The Good Ship, Kilburn (17th); SHOCC Ceilidh, nr. Winchester (18th); Harbury Village Hall, Warwickshire (19th); Criterion Theatre, Coventry (25th). steamchicken.co.uk

Eduardo Niebla plays at Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells (12th Jan); Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan (13th); Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea (14th). eduardoniebla.com

Simon Mayor & Hilary

James play at The Ram Folk Club, Old Cranleighan Club, Portsmouth Rd, Thames Ditton, Surrey on 6th Jan and host a Mandolin & Voice Workshop Weekend at Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, near Crowcombe, Somerset (20th – 22nd.) mayorandjames.com

Saul Rose & James Delarre have duo dates at Colchester Folk Club (16th Jan); Haddenham Ceilidhs, Aylesbury (4th Feb); Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (5th). jamesandsaul.com

Fairport Convention have winter tour dates at Celtic Connections, Glasgow (24th Jan); Temple Bar Festival, Dublin (26th); Out to Lunch Festival, Belfast

Hilary James & Simon Mayor

(27th & 28th); Camp & Furnace, Liverpool (29th); Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury (31st); The Stables, Milton Keynes (1st Feb); Pavilion Theatre, Worthing (2nd); Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells (3rd); Norwich OPEN (4th); Lincoln Drill Hall (5th); Theatre Royal, Winchester (7th); Corn Exchange, Exeter (8th); Komedia, Bath (9th); The Atkinson, Southport (10th); Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton (11th); St Albans Arena (12th); Burnley Mechanics (14th); Oakengates, Telford (15th); Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon (16th); Electric Palace, Bridport (17th); Artrix Theatre, Bromsgrove (18th); Quays Theatre, Salford Quays (19th); Gulbenkian, Canterbury (21st & 22nd); The Maltings, Farnham (23rd); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (24th); Union Chapel, London (25th); Cresset Theatre, Peterborough (26th); Wheel, Chesterfield (28th). fairportconvention.com

Blair Dunlop, with special

guest Kitty Macfarlane, brings his ReGilded tour to Hug & Pint, Glasgow (5th Feb); The Fleece, Bristol (22nd); Sage Gateshead (23rd); Ruby Lounge, Manchester (24th); Cecil Sharp House, London (25th). blairdunlop.co.uk

Megson have dates at

Upwood Village Hall (19th Jan); The Ram Club, Thames Ditton (20th); Dorchester Arts Centre (21st); Trowbridge Village Pump Club (3rd Feb); Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch (4th); The Greystones, Sheffield (5th); Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury (7th); Copmanthorpe Methodist Church, York (16th);

Vengeance at House Concert, London (27th Jan); St. Leonard’s Church, Yarpole (28th); Stables, Milton Keynes (29th); Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham (1st Feb); The Convent, South Woodchester (2nd); St Edith Folk, Sevenoaks (3rd); St Stephen’s Church, Upper Basildon (4th); House Concert, Honiton (9th); House Concert, Marlborough (10th); Green Note, London (11th); House Concert, London (12th); South Hill Park, Bracknell (13th). raycooper.org

GIGS Folk at Kings Place, London

N1 includes February dates with 9Bach, Celtic Fiddle Festiival, The Pitmen Poets and Emily Barker. Tel: 020 7520 1490; kingsplace.co.uk/folk

Tommy Emmanuel,

Fisherman’s Friends, Anne Niepold & Gregory Jolivet and Skerryvore are among the artists coming to the Anvil, Basingstoke. anvilarts.org.uk

London’s Folk On Monday events in Jan/Feb include dates at Green Note, Camden with Tuulikki Bartosik & Hannah James, Stick In The Wheel, Three Dollar Shoe, Tim Jones & The Dark Lanterns, Said The Maiden, Kaela Rowan, The Outside Track; at The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell with Dipper Malkin, The Furrow Collective, The Siobhan Miller Band and Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick; at St John at Bethnal Green Church, Bethnal Green with Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle and Shake The Chains – Songs of Social Change, Resistance and Protest and at St Columbas Church, Knightsbridge with Fara. folkonmonday.co.uk

Dipper Malkin (in reverse)

Fleecey Folk at The Fleece Inn, The Cross, Bretforton, Evesham, Worcs sees in the New Year with its annual Wassail!, and dates with Breabach, Fara and John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick & John Doyle. Tel: 01386 831173; thefleeceinn.co.uk

The Black Swan Folk Club in

York has a busy New Year with guests including Martin Carthy (for 2 nights), Flossie Malavialle, Allan Taylor, Geoff Lakeman, Worry Dolls, Jack Patchett, Two's Company the Kaela Rowan Band.

blackswanfolkclub.org.uk.

The Live Room at Saltaire has fours shows in January and February with Amy Wadge & Luke Jackson, Mandolin Orange, Peter Bruntnell Band and Ashley Hutchings. theliveroom.info

Coming to The Witham Arts

Centre, Barnard Castle in Jan and Feb are Jim Moray and Sam Carter. thewitham.org.uk

The Goose Is Out! in

Nunhead, London SE15 has imminent dates with Loreley, Jackie Oates, Steve Turner, Phil Beer and Jack Harris. thegooseisout.com

The all-new Milkmaid Blues

Club, The Constitutional Club, 12 Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds launches on the second Friday of the month from 13th January with international, national and locally known artists. Opening night headliner will be Dave Ferra. milkmaid.blue

Coming soon to Cecil Sharp

House, Regent’s Park Road, London NW1: The Adventures Of Andy Kershaw, The Transports featuring The Young’uns, Faustus, Nancy Kerr and more, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Martyn Joseph, The Wanton Seed, The Rachel Hamer Band, Blair Dunlop, The Rheingans Sisters, The Estuary Songwriting Project featuring Hazel Askew, M.G Boulter, Lucy Farrell, Piers Haslam, Roshi Nasehi, Nick Pynn, Alasdair Roberts and Kate Waterfield, The James Brothers, The Swingles with special guests Twelfth Day and EFFRA, BBC Concert Orchestra with Spiro. Tel 020 7485 2206; cecilsharphouse.org

Crail Folk Club in East Fife celebrates its 30th anniversary in