So, it’s that time of year again where throughout the world on January the 25th men in ill-fitting kilts and highland dress (like our Findlay and Alex) discover their inner Scotsman and expound amateur-dramatically about haggis, mice, excise men and Tam O’Shanter and his trusty steed Meg in celebration of the great Robert Burns.

AND it’s also the time where we offer our version of Robert Burns beautiful song Ae Fond Kiss as a download single on Bandcamp for £1.25 or pay what you wish with 100% of the proceeds going to an excellent cause.

This year we’ll be sending the money to the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation set up by the late Doddie Weir, the instantly recognisable, larger than life Scottish international rugby player after his diagnosis with Motor Neuron Disease which seeks to support sufferers, aid research and increase the awareness of this devastating and as yet incurable illness.

A huge amount of you have supported this already by buying the single in past years but if you can see your way to spreading the word about it or buying it as an email gift via Bandcamp for someone you love music with then that would be amazing.

Here’s the link now….

The Magpie Arc – Ae Fond Kiss Charity Single

Thanks everyone!

TMA xx 🖤🤍💜

Hi Folks,

We’ve got Black Friday deals and free postage and packing on all music bought directly from the band so if you’re looking for something for your folk loving friends/family or significant other then head to our shop via the link here….

The Magpie Arc CD’s and Vinyl

There’s some copies left of the coloured vinyl limited edition of our Top 10 Official chart album Glamour In The Grey with special offers on all CD/vinyl bundles at the link above and we have a discount and free P&P on our band t-shirts which you can see at the link here…

The Magpie Arc T-Shirts

Also tickets are flying for our Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London on the 8th of February which features us, Edgelarks, The Bookshop Band, Sam Carter, Frankie Archer and BBC’s Matthew Bannister interviewing the legend of UK folk rock Ashley Hutchings so if you fancy a day with some of the finest folk artists in the UK plus food, facilities (yes, toilets) and a nice warm winter sit down then check out the details and grab your tickets at the link here…

The Magpie Arc Indoor Festival of Folk 2025 And Gig Tickets

Details of all our February and April gig dates are at that link too, so again, grab your tickets now if you’d like to see us live.

Thanks for your support as ever!

TMA xx

MADNESS! Cutting our OWN throats, gawd luv us! Never mind the width FEEL the quality. We’ll have a word with the MANAGER and see what WE can do….etc. etc.

We posted YESTERDAY in error that today is BLACK FRIDAY which was total NONSENSE, sorry!

So we are now declaring TODAY the 8th of November 2024 a special magpie PURPLE FRIDAY and from NOW till Saturday we have BIG discounts on ALL music bought DIRECTLY from us via OUR webshop so whether it’s the START of your CHRISTMAS SHOPPING for folk lovin’ friends or the END of a crap week pressie for YOURSELF then NOW’S the time to DIVE IN.

Head over to the SHOP page on OUR website by clicking HERE now and REMEMBER for every £1 spent 1p goes towards FLYING LESSONS for our Findlay to help GET HIM OFF Arran cos the ferries are BROKEN!!!!

WHY all the SHOUTY CAPITAL LETTERS?!!! We DON’T KNOW, we’re NOT sales people, it just seems like a GOOD IDEA!!!!

Also more new gigs announced for 2025 so for all details click HERE

Phew!

TMA xx

We’re delighted to announce that the fantastic Frankie Archer will be joining us for our Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday February the 8th!

Frankie is making huge waves on the UK folk scene after her appearance on Jools Holland’s BBC show a few months ago and now completes our line-up of the awesome Edgelarks, the brilliant Bookshop Band, the superb Sam Carter, the (insert your own adjective here…) Magpie Arc and…..AND…..”The Guvnor” of UK folk rock himself, Ashley Hutchings, in conversation with Matthew Bannister.

So, an indoor one day winter festival with food, drink, facilities (yes okay, toilets!) a nice warm sit down and some of the best folk artists in the UK. Sound good?

Not to strum our own banjo but that line-up is tremendous! 

The day starts just after lunch, finishes in time for the trains home and we’d love to see you there so if you’re up for it then grab your tickets from the link below now but be quick as they are limited…

For The Indoor Festival Folk 2025 Tickets – Click Here

TMA xx

We’re very, very delighted to announce that lining-up with us at our 3rd “Indoor Festival of Folk” at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday the 8th of February are the collectively superb and award-winning Edgelarks, The Bookshop Band, Sam Carter AND “The Guv’nor” of all things British folk rock, Ashley Hutchings, who in his 80th birthday year will be BBC presenter and Folk On Foot podcaster Matthew Bannister’s special interview guest.

What a line-up already but it’s not quite finished yet as there’s one more excellent artist confirmed who we’ll announce very soon after they’ve played an upcoming London gig.

So “Come All Ye” again for a day in London of folk, food, facilities and a nice warm winter sit down all in the company of some of the country’s finest folk musicians.  

Tickets are on sale and are limited in number so find out further information about the day, about all the artists taking part and get yours now at the following link…

For the 3rd Indoor Festival of Folk Tickets – Click Here

TMA xx

Two years ago we were over the moon to put on our first Indoor Festival of Folk at Cecil Sharp House in London and it was an absolutely fantastic day with us, Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, John Spiers, Lizzie Hardingham, Bella Hardy, Blair Dunlop and Matthew Bannister interviewing Maddy and Peter.

Our second one was in February this year with another stellar cast of UK artists Jon Doran and Janice Burns, The Trials of Cato, the Rosie Hood Band, Tom Robinson and the legendary producers of Fairport, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, John Martyn, the Incredible String Band and many others Joe Boyd and John Wood in conversation with Matthew Bannister.

So now we’re doing it again on the 8th of February 2025 and we already have in place another great line-up of outstanding UK folk artists (and us!) plus a special guest interviewee details of which will be announced and will go on sale next Friday the 20th of September.

We’ll remind you again next week but it’s shaping up to be another cracker so do save the date for a day of folk, food, facilities and a nice sit down all in the beautiful surroundings of Cecil Sharp House.

In the meantime here’s some wonderful photos from the first event….

TMA xx

Friday We’re In Love…….with T-Shirts and Prints!

That’s “Bandcamp Friday” to be precise where today the Bandcamp music site kindly waive all their sales revenue for artists who use the platform to sell on and so today is a very good day for us all if you buy.

We sell there, and so to celebrate the day we have our own custom The Magpie Arc t-shirts available to buy for the first time now.

These are quality, soft and comfortable gildan heavy cotton grey tee’s with our magpie logo on the chest and band name on the arm in a three colour screenprint.

The first tranche are in very limited numbers and are sold on a first come/first serve basis with shipping on the 9th of September but fear not if you miss out as all subsequent orders today will be on a pre-order and t-shirts will be shipped to you from the 5th of October if not before.

Click here for T-Shirts.

AND…

We also have a limited edition of 30 very special screenprints by artist Ellie Skinner of a beautiful Cinnibar moth with a handwritten line by Nancy Kerr from her song of the same name as featured on our EP2 and all prints are signed by Ellie and Nancy too.

Click here for Cinnabar print.

And finally, we have some copies left of our special, limited edition, sea-foam colour vinyl version of the Glamour In The Grey album complete with band photos and lyric insert plus our free/pay what you wish 22-song Anthology download compilation album which you can integrate into your streaming playlists or listen to on the dedicated Bandcamp app or even gift by email for the princely sum of 50p to a music loving friend who you think would like us.

Click here for Glamour In The Grey album on Special Edition Sea-Foam Coloured Vinyl.

Click here for 22- Song Anthology free/pay what you wish download album.

Thank you for your support on this day everyone, it is as ever hugely appreciated, and do check out some recently announced gigs in 2025 at the “Live” page on our website themagpiearc.com too.

We’ll see you out there on the road soon!

TMA xx