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Thank you so much to everyone who has bought our new album Glamour In the Grey since sales opened last month, it has made it into the Top 50 of the Official UK Independent Album Chart on it’s first week of release at Number 42! What a lovely sight this is – https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/ On topContinue reading “Glamour In The Grey In The Official UK Album Charts!”

The Magpie Arc will be playing a hometown Christmas gig on Thursday the 15th of December at Firth Hall, Sheffield with support from Nancy Kerr and James Fagan plus very special guest, the legendary Maddy Prior from Steeleye Span. Tickets and further information are available now from https://performancevenues.group.shef.ac.uk/event/the-magpie-arc/ so come and join us for someContinue reading “Sheffield Christmas Gig with Kerr/Fagan and Maddy Prior!”

Glamour In The Grey – International Orders Are Now Open!!! Thank you to all of our overseas fans for your patience whilst we sorted out the International sales channel for our new Glamour In The Grey album. That is now done and you can order it on CD or 12″ Vinyl from Bandcamp worldwide rightContinue reading “Glamour In The Grey – Now Available Worldwide”

Glamour In The Grey is out tomorrow and as it’s Bandcamp Friday, which is the day that they waive all their revenue from artists who use the platform for sales, if you are still planning to buy the digital download then it would be fantastic for us if you could hold off until morning andContinue reading “New Album Out Tomorrow!”

It’s new album release week and our first full-length album Glamour In The Grey is out this Friday the 4th of November. We have Nancy Kerr folk/rock belters with “just the right amount of Black Sabbath” according to one reviewer, plus a wonderful version of the wintry Mike Waterson song Jack Frost, our “The Band’esque”Continue reading “New Album Release Week!”

We are absolutely delighted to announce that our new album Glamour In The Grey is now available to pre-order ahead of the release date on the 4th of November and you can get your copy on 12″ vinyl, CD and digital download here And you can also listen to preview track All I Planted hereContinue reading “The Magpie Arc – New Album!”

The audio of the Maddy Prior and Peter Knight interview with Matthew Bannister from our Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House on the 3rd of September is now available to listen to at the Folk on Foot podcast page here By turns, funny, informative, entertaining and moving, it was a remarkable part ofContinue reading “Maddy Prior and Peter Knight Interview – Indoor Festival of Folk 2022”

We are playing at Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham by Sea (near Brighton) on Friday the 2nd of September and then on Saturday the 3rd we are part of a fantastic line-up at the Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London along with Peter Knight (Steeleye Span) and John Spiers (Bellowhead) as theirContinue reading “September Gigs!”

Tickets are flying for our Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday the 3rd of September. And what a line-up it is too! A superb mix of legendary, award-winning and up and coming UK folk artists, including Peter Knight (Steeleye Span founder member) and John Spiers (Bellowhead) in their fantasticContinue reading “Indoor Festival of Folk in London on the 3rd of September”

We are absolutely over the moon to announce the first Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday the 3rd of September hosted by The Magpie Arc and the English Folk Dance and Song Society. And what a line-up we have for it too! A superb mix of legendary, award-winning andContinue reading “Our Own Indoor Music Festival!”