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3 Daft Monkeys - Social Vertigo 1 review
3 Daft Monkeys - The Antiquated And The Arcane 1 review
4Square - 20:20 Manchester 3 reviews
4Square - Chronicles 1 review
9Bach - 9Bach 1 review
Acoustic Earth - Travelling Man 1 review
The Albion Band - The Vice Of The People 1 review
Alessi’s Ark - The Horse 1 review
Kelli Ali - Rocking Horse 2 reviews
Allan Yn Y Fan - Pwnco 1 review
Alyth - People Like Me 1 review
Kila and Bruno Coulais - The Secret Of Kells 1 review
Christi Andropolis - Rust And Holler 1 review
Paul Armfield - Tennyson 1 review
The Bailey Sisters - After Silence, Music 1 review
Al Baker & the Dole Queue - Causes & Cures 1 review
Damien Barber & Mike Wilson - Under The Influence 1 review
Gren Bartley - Songs To Scythe Back The Overgrown 1 review
Naomi Bedford - Tales From The Weeping Willow 1 review
Bellowhead - Hedonism 1 review
Bellowhead - Hedonism Live 1 review
Bellowhead - Live At Shepherds Bush Empire 1 review
Bellowhead - Matachin 2 reviews
Bellowhead - Umbrellowhead 1 review
Belshazzar’s Feast - Find The Lady 2 reviews
Belshazzar’s Feast - Frost Bites 1 review
Martyn Bennett - Aye 1 review
Blackbeard’s Tea Party - Heavens To Betsy 2 reviews Listen now!
Blackbeard’s Tea Party - Tomorrow We’ll Be Sober 1 review
Jon Boden - Songs From The Floodplain 4 reviews Listen now!
Breabach - The Desperate Battle Of The Birds 1 review
Kirsty Bromley - Sweet Nightingale 1 review
Michelle Burke - Pulling Threads 1 review
The Burns Unit - Side Show 1 review
Philip Butler - Trapped At Sea 1 review
Kyle Carey - Monongah 1 review
Eliza Carthy - Neptune 1 review
Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson - Gift 1 review
Eliza Carthy and Norma Waterson - The Gift Band - Live On Tour 1 review
Jim Causley - Dumnonia 2 reviews
Cecil Sharp Project - Cecil Sharp Project 2011 1 review
Circus Envy - A New Dawn 1 review
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker - The Seas Are Deep 1 review
Jake Cogan and the Liberty Roses - Jake Cogan and The Liberty Roses 1 review
Maclaine Colston & Saul Rose - Sand & Soil 1 review
Cordelia’s Dad - Double Live 1 review
Jude Cowan - Doodlebug Alley 2 reviews
Jennifer Crook - A Few Small Things 1 review
Jennifer Crook - Black Fly 1 review
The Crooked Fiddle Band - Rise 1 review
The Roving Crows - Bacchanalia 1 review
Crucible - Love And Money 1 review
Cruel Folk - Love, Loyalty And Other Lies 1 review
Andy Cutting - Andy Cutting 1 review
Daimh - Diversions 1 review
Daniel & Emma - Innerligheten 1 review
Luke Daniels - Art Of Trio 1 review
Darwin Song Project - Shrewsbury 2009 1 review
Gavin Davenport - Brief Lives 1 review
David Gibb and Elly Lucas - Old Chairs To Mend 1 review
Gareth Davies-Jones - Chasing Light 1 review
Dave Delarre - Blue Beginnings 1 review
Demon Barbers - +24db 1 review
The Demon Barbers - The Adventures Of Captain Ward 1 review
Dervish - From Stage To Stage 1 review
Cara Dillon - Hill Of Thieves 3 reviews
Gerry Diver - The Speech Project 2 reviews
Katie Doherty - Bridges 10 reviews
The Dollymopps - Long Songs 1 review
Kris Drever - Live 1 review
Kris Drever - Mark The Hard Earth 1 review
Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble - Before The Ruin 1 review Listen now!
Blair Dunlop - An EP 1 review
Joy Dunlop - Dùsgadh Awakening 1 review
Duotone - Work Harder & One Day You’ll Find Her 1 review
Dyer:Cumming’s - Dyer:Cumming’s 1 review
Anna Elias and the Forlorn Hope - Valleys In The Flatlands 1 review
Fidil - Fidil 3 1 review
James Findlay - Sport And Play 1 review
Steven Finn - Houdini’s Blues 1 review
Firefly - Lightships 1 review
Julie Fowlis - Live At Perthshire Amber 1 review
Julie Fowlis - Uam 1 review
Foxpockets - The Coracle & The Albatross 1 review
Fribo - Happ 1 review
Future Trad Collective - Future Trad Collective 1 review
Gadarene - Volume One: 1694-2011 1 review
Galley Beggar - Reformation House 1 review
Lewis Garland & The Kett Rebellion - Places We Neglect 2 reviews
Julian Gaskell - Kind Words From Home 1 review
The Gentle Good - While You Slept I Went Out Walking 1 review
David Gibb - Give Me A Satsuma (at Xmas Time) 1 review
David Gibb - There Are Birds In My Garden 1 review
Thea Gilmore - Liejacker 1 review
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts - Shadows & Half Light 1 review
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts - Up From The Deep 1 review
The Martin Green Machine - First Sighting 1 review
Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson - Lady Diamond 1 review
Mary Hampton - My Mother’s Children 1 review
Hannah James & Sam Sweeney - State And Ancientry 1 review
Bella Hardy - In The Shadow Of Mountains 1 review
Bella Hardy - Night Visiting 1 review
Bella Hardy - Songs Lost & Stolen 1 review
Harp and a Monkey - Harp And A Monkey 1 review
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - Singing The Bones 2 reviews
Hérétique - Hérétique 1 review
Hickman & Quinn - Times 1 review
Fay Hield - Looking Glass 1 review
Horses Brawl - Ruminantia 1 review
Horses Brawl - Wild Lament 1 review
The Hut People - Home Is Where The Hut Is 1 review
The Hut People - Picnic 1 review
The Imagined Village - Bending The Dark 1 review
The Imagined Village - Empire And Love 1 review
Hannah James & Sam Sweeney - Catches & Glees 1 review Listen now!
Jaywalkers - 16 Miles 1 review
Jigfoot - Nothing At All 1 review
Cathy Jordan - All The Way Home 1 review
Louise Jordan - Born To Wander EP 1 review
Louise Jordan - Tempvs 1 review
Alan Kelly - After The Morning 1 review
Alan Kelly Gang - Small Towns And Famous Nights 1 review
Kerfuffle - Lighten The Dark - A Midwinter Album 1 review Listen now!
Kerfuffle - To The Ground 2 reviews Listen now!
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan - Twice Reflected Sun 1 review
Kila - Soisín 1 review
Ian King - Panic Grass & Fever Few 1 review
Tom Kitching & Gren Bartley - Boundary 1 review
Lady Maisery - Weave & Spin 1 review
Seth Lakeman - Hearts & Minds 1 review
Seth Lakeman - Live At The Minack 2 reviews
Seth Lakeman - Tales From The Barrel House 1 review
Seth Lakeman - Tiny World 1 review
Padraig Lalor - Ismay’s Dream 1 review
Lau - Arc Light 1 review Listen now!
Lau vs Karine Polwart - Evergreen 1 review
Tim Laycock - Sea Strands 1 review
Lazik - Far Fetched 1 review
Iona Leigh - Beside The Waves Of Time 1 review
Giles Lewin - The Armchair Orienteer 1 review
Lleuwen - Tan 1 review
Los Salvadores - Incredible Shrinking Man 1 review
Los Salvadores - Stuck Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea 1 review
Lúnasa - Lá Nua 1 review
Yvonne Lyon - More Than Mine 1 review
Huw M - Os Mewn Swn 1 review
Mabon - Live At The Grand Pavilion 1 review
Man’s Ruin - Health & Safety 1 review
Mànran - Mànran 1 review
Mawkin - Crow 1 review
Mawkin:Causley - Cold Ruin 1 review
Mawkin:Causley - The Awkward Recruit 1 review Listen now!
Andy May - Happy Hours 1 review
Maranna McCloskey - At Last 1 review
John McCusker - Under One Sky 1 review Listen now!
John McCusker - Yella Hoose & Goodnight Ginger 1 review
Michael McGoldrick - Aurora 1 review
Catriona McKay & Olov Johansson - Foogy 1 review
Loreena McKennitt - The Wind That Shakes The Barley 1 review
Loreena McKennitt - Troubadours On The Rhine 1 review
Ewan McLennan - Ewan McLennan 3 reviews
Ewan McLennan - The Last Bird To Sing 1 review Listen now!
Rachael McShane - No Man’s Fool 1 review Listen now!
Megson - Smoke Of Home 1 review
Megson - Take Yourself A Wife 2 reviews
Megson - The Longshot 1 review
Dogan Mehmet - Gypsyhead 1 review
Methera - In Concert 1 review
Sigrid Moldestad - Sandkorn 1 review
Jim Molyneux - Journey Boy 1 review
Monster Ceilidh Band - Make Me A Dancer 1 review
Monster Ceilidh Band - Mechanical Monster 1 review
Moore Moss Rutter - Demo CD 4 reviews
Moore Moss Rutter - Moore Moss Rutter 1 review
Jim Moray - A Beginner’s Guide 1 review
Jim Moray - In Modern History 2 reviews
Jim Moray - Skulk 1 review
Jess Morgan - All Swell 1 review
Jess Morgan - Crosses 11 reviews
Moulettes - Moulettes 1 review
Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers - Out All Night 1 review
Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers - File Under Fiction 1 review
Tom Nicholas - Man And His Music 1 review
Nitramarsh - Songs That Have Little To Do With Nitrogen And Ammonia 1 review
Ruth Notman - The Life Of Lilly 1 review
Lizzie Nunnery - Company Of Ghosts 1 review
Maz O’Connor - On Leaves Or On Sand 1 review
O’Hooley & Tidow - Silent June 1 review
O’Hooley & Tidow - The Fragile 2 reviews
O’Hooley and Tidow - The Last Polar Bear 1 review
Aidan O’Rourke - An Tobar 2 reviews
Jackie Oates - Hyperboreans 1 review
Jackie Oates - Saturnine 1 review
Jackie Oates - The Violet Hour 1 review
The Old Dance School - Based On a True Story 1 review
The Old Dance School - Forecast 3 reviews
Elle Osborne - Good Grief 2 reviews
Elle Osborne - So Slowly Slowly Got She Up 1 review
Pavlov’s Cat - At The Races 1 review
PBS6 - PBS6 1 review
PBS6 - Pilot: Going Down 1 review
Pecsaetan Morris - At One With The Bells : Celebrating Ten Years Of Pecsaetan Morris 1 review
Pilgrims’ Way - Pilgrims’ Way 1 review
Pilgrims’ Way - Shining Gently All Around 1 review
Pilgrims’ Way - Wayside Courtesies 1 review
Karine Polwart - Here’s Where Tomorrow Starts 1 review
Emily Portman - Hinge Of The Year 1 review
Emily Portman - The Glamoury 1 review
Rapunzel and Sedayne - Songs From The Barley Temple 1 review
Chris Ricketts - Port Of Escape 1 review
Chris Ricketts & Mark Willshire - Simple Folk 3 reviews
Ewan Robertson - Some Kind Of Certainty 1 review
Ewan D Rodgers - From Hull, Halifax And Hell 1 review
David Rotheray - The Life Of Birds 1 review
Mick Ryan - The Pauper’s Path To Hope 1 review
Samson & Delilah - Samson & Delilah 1 review
The Scarlet Jacks - The Scarlet Jacks EP 1 review
The Scoville Units - The Scoville Units 1 review
Shooglenifty - Murmichan 2 reviews
Emily Smith - Traiveller’s Joy 1 review
Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan - Adoon Winding Nith 1 review
Cora Smyth - Are We There Yet? 2 reviews
Joe Solo - Forwards Is Just Backwards In Reverse 1 review
John Spiers - Melodeon - Mastering The Art 1 review
Spiro - Kaleidophonica 1 review
George Stevens - 3 Tunes 1 review
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer - Stones On The Ground 1 review
Emma Sweeney - The Other Crossing 1 review
Mark T - Folk Songs And Ballads 1 review
Heidi Talbot - The Last Star 1 review
John Tams et al. - Ballad Of The Big Ships - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
John Tams et al. - Swings And Roundabouts - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
John Tams et al. - The Enemy That Lives Within - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
John Tams et al. - The Horn Of The Hunter - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
John Tams et al. - The Song Of Steel - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
John Tams et al. - Thirty Years Of Conflict - The Radio Ballads 2006 1 review
The Askew Sisters - Through Lonesome Woods 1 review
The Crooked Fiddle Band - Overgrown Tales 1 review
The Doomed Bird of Providence - Will Ever Pray 1 review
The Gentle Good - Tethered For The Storm 1 review
The Old Dance School - Chasing The Light 1 review
The Old Swan Band - Swan For The Money 1 review
The Random Family - Married To The Sea 1 review
The Shee - Decadence 1 review
The Woodbine and Ivy Band - The Woodbine And Ivy Band 1 review
The Young ’uns - Man, I Feel Like A Young ’un 1 review
Inge Thomson - Shipwrecks & Static 1 review
Joseph Topping - Ghosts In The Shadows 1 review
Treacherous Orchestra - Origins 1 review
Twelfth Day - Northern Quarter 1 review
Twelfth Day - Twelfth Day 1 review
Cath and Phil Tyler - The Hind Wheels Of Bad Luck 1 review
Uiscedwr - Fish Cat Door 1 review
Various Artists - All Along The Wall 1 review
Various artists - Folk Against Fascism - Volume One 1 review
Various artists - Folk Awards 2009 1 review
Various artists - Oak Ash Thorn 2 reviews
Various Artists - One Night For Norma 1 review
Various Artists - Short Sharp Shanties : Sea Songs Of A Watchet Sailor Vol. 1 1 review
Various Artists - The Co-Operative Cambridge Folk Festival 2010 1 review
Laura Victoria - Acting Up 1 review
Lucy Ward - Adelphi Has To Fly 1 review
Wheeler Street - Complaints And Privileges 2 reviews
Wheeler Street - Roodumdah 1 review
Wheeler Street - The Pirate Song 1 review
Woodbine & Ivy Band ft Fay Hield - Spencer The Rover 1 review
Sandy Wright - The Songs Of Sandy Wright 1 review
Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll - Beneath The Black Tree 1 review
Yan Yates - Demo 1 review