The Magpie Arc musical family tree is EXTRAORDINARY! There’s award-winners, award-nominees and generally some of the UK’s best folk musicians, and so in the grand tradition of the 1960’s/70’s album samplers we have put together a collection of songs from everyone which is now available to download on Bandcamp.

“Let Me Introduce You To The Family” features ten songs from us, Nancy Kerr, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan, Rosie Hood, Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame, the Melrose Quartet and Martin Simpson so do check it out at the link below and then carry on exploring everyone’s music using the links in each of the songs. You’ll be very delighted that you did!

Let Me Introduce You To The Family compilation album – Click Here

TMA xx

We are absolutely delighted to announce the final addition to the line-up for our 2nd Indoor Festival of Folk which will take place at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday the 3rd of February.

Joining the acts already confirmed for top class folk music, food, drink, fun, facilities and a very nice, warm sit down are the fantastic BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning band The Trials of Cato!

They will appear along with us, Tom Robinson, The Rosie Hood Band, Janice Burns and Jon Doran and a very special interview session hosted by BBC and Folk On Foot broadcaster Matthew Bannister where he will be talking to, taking questions for and extracting stories from the co-creators of the UK Folk/Rock genre the legendary producer/manager Joe Boyd and producer/engineer John Wood (Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Fotheringay, the Incredible String Band and loads more).

For many of us Joe and John are the men behind the bands and solo artists whose music has accompanied us throughout our lives and this will be a very rare opportunity to hear them talk about the who, what, why and where of 60’s/70’s British Folk/Rock.

Day tickets are available to buy right now at themagpiearc.com/live/

These will be limited in number so be very quick to get yours and ensure that you don’t miss out!

We have more gigs added to our February tour as well, including a Friday headline slot at the Love Folk Festival at The Atkinson in Southport on the 9th and all information/tickets are at the same link above.

And thank you to everyone who bought our special 22 songs for £10, everything we’ve recorded Anthology download album, it’s still riding high in the Bandcamp bestseller list and is available to buy or gift to someone that you love music with here at themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-anthology

Thank you for all the continued support everyone and have a lovely weekend!

TMA xx 🖤 💜

Our Anthology download album hit number one on the Bandcamp worldwide folk/rock bestseller chart! How fantastic is that?!!

Thank you to everyone who bought a copy and also to those who have asked for a copy of the album artwork, it really is beautiful and we’re trying to work out something else interesting that we can do with it.

Twenty-two download songs for a bargain £10 which you can buy or even send as an email gift to someone who you love music with.

You can find it at the link here – https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-anthology

Or if you prefer CD’s and vinyl you can find special offer bundles of The First Three EPs and Glamour In The Grey which together make up the Anthology collection at the link here – https://themagpiearc.com/shop/

And just a reminder that we are also touring round the UK in February and new dates have been added so do check them out and come along to see us live. All gigs are a whole evening with us which means an opening set of solo spots from Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Findlay Napier followed by a full band second set. Value for money or what?!   

You can find the information and tickets links for the festival and all our tour dates at the link here – https://themagpiearc.com/live/

Thank you for your support everyone, as ever it’s always hugely appreciated!

TMA xx 🖤 💜

Happy 1st Anniversary to our latest album Glamour In The Grey everyone and thank you for buying it and keeping it in the Official UK Folk Chart since it was released. You’ve no idea how happy that has made us!

It’s been pointed out that we have special offer packages of our first three EPs plus the Glamour album on CD and vinyl but not on download so we have put that right and a special budget-priced combined package of these is available to download from Bandcamp now.

Twenty-two songs for a bargain £10, and as today is Bandcamp Friday where they waive their share of sales revenue then now would be a great time for us if you wanted to buy it or even gift it to someone that you love sharing music with.

You can find it at the link here – themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-anthology

And you can find our special offer bundle CD and Vinyl packages at the link here – themagpiearc.com/shop/

We are hosting our own one day folk festival at Cecil Sharp House in London on the 3rd of February with a fantastic line-up and legendary folk/rock guests so if you fancy a day of folk, food, drink, facilities and a nice sit down then do come along. It will be happening come rain or come shine!

And we are also touring round the UK in February and may be coming to play somewhere near you so do come along if you can.

You can find the information and tickets links for the festival and all our tour dates at the link here – themagpiearc.com/live/

Thank you for your support everyone, as ever it is hugely appreciated!

TMA xx

We are absolutely delighted to announce the line-up for our 2nd Indoor Festival of Folk which will take place at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday the 3rd of February.
 
Join us for top class folk music, food, drink, fun, facilities and a very nice, warm sit down!
 
Appearing along with The Magpie Arc on the day will be the wonderful singer/songwriter and activist Tom Robinson, one of the UK’s most captivating folk duo’s Janice Burns and Jon Doran, the exquisite harmonies and musicianship of The Rosie Hood Band and as the centrepiece of the day a very special interview session hosted by BBC and Folk On Foot broadcaster Matthew Bannister where he will be talking to, taking questions for and extracting stories from the co-creators of the UK Folk/Rock genre the legendary producer/manager Joe Boyd and producer/engineer John Wood who worked from the very beginning with Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, Fotheringay, the Incredible String Band and loads more.
 
For many of us Joe and John are the men behind the bands and solo artists whose music has accompanied us throughout our lives and this will be a very rare (we think actually the first) opportunity to hear them talk together about the who, what, where and why of 60’s and 70’s British Folk/Rock.
 
There is also one other top class act still to be announced which will be added in the coming days.
 
All-day tickets are available to buy right now so click here for the information/ticket link – https://themagpiearc.com/live/
 
Please note that tickets will be limited in number so be very quick to get yours and ensure that you don’t miss out!
 
We look forward to seeing you there.

TMA xx

Morning All!

As the great Andy Warhol once said “If one human is touched by your art, then it’s almost certain that many thousands of humans will also be touched by your art……..all you have to do is reach them.”

Three years ago today we released our first EP and seconds after midnight on that day our band email started “pinging” as the orders came in. At one point it was like a “pinging” mini-symphony!

So the point of this email is dear, departed Andy’s words above. We know that quite a lot of humans enjoy our music so it’s almost certain that a lot more will too….all we have to do is reach them.

And that’s where you guys come in!

We’re doing a “Free Music Friday” download release right now and it’s three of our songs on an EP that is available for no cost whatsoever on Bandcamp here….

themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/the-magpie-arc-free-music-friday

We know everyone is busy and it’s not high on your list of priorities but it would be absolutely wonderful if you could spare a few seconds to share the link with somebody that you think would enjoy our music.

Just forward it to one person….or two people…..or thousands if you have the facility!

Or just tell someone to search for us on Bandcamp and they’ll find it.

Anyway, if you’re up for it let’s have a bit of “Friday Fun” in memory of Andy and see where this goes.

Thank you everyone, your support as ever is massively appreciated.

TMA xx 🖤

Today is “Bandcamp Friday” which is the day that the sales platform Bandcamp waive all their revenue for artists that use it. 

We are on there, as are Martin Simpson, Nancy Kerr and Findlay Napier, so if you would like to buy anything of ours (or any other artist that you like that is on there too) then today is a very, very good day to do it.

We have available a small amount of our Special Edition sea-foam coloured 12″ vinyl copies of latest album Glamour In The Grey which comes with lyric insert and band photos and you can see that here –  https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/album/glamour-in-the-grey

Please note that these are for UK buyers only!

And you can also buy download copies of Glamour In The Grey and our First Three EPs on Bandcamp here – https://themagpiearc.bandcamp.com/

For all of our other CD and vinyl music you can buy them at our usual webshop here – https://themagpiearc.company.site/

And if you prefer Amazon then you can buy our albums on CD there, just search for “The Magpie Arc cd’s” and you’ll find them.

Finally we have some exciting tour news coming up soon so if you would like to follow us on Facebook you will hear all about it there first and you can do that here – https://www.facebook.com/TheMagpieArc       

Thank you for your continued support everyone, as ever it is hugely appreciated!

TMA xx 🖤 🤍 💜

Anyone trying to buy tickets today for our special hometown gig at Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield tomorrow will have noticed that ticket site WeGotTickets is intermittently unavailable.

If you would like to come along but are continuing to have trouble buying before then please email your name and the number of tickets you require to info@themagpiearc.com and we will reserve spaces for you to collect/pay on the door.

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone but it’s a wider issue affecting the whole site and not just our gig.

TMA xx

Anyone recognise the wall?!

This week we play the “homest” of hometown gigs at the venue that was the first of everything for The Magpie Arc…..the first place we all met, the first place we fired up the electricity and switched on the buzzy amps, the first place we thrashed the first song into shape, the studio we first recorded our first three EP’s, the first place we all set off from to go to Doncaster for our first gig etc. etc.

And now for the first time we are playing there live!

Tomorrow, Wednesday the 16th of August in fact, and it will be a very, very special night for us, so if you can possibly make it along to help celebrate we would love to see you at our beloved Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield for music and beers.

For the gig ticket ink with further event details just click here

TMA xx

(Arctic Monkeys photo by Richard Green and TMA photo by Kate Griffen Photography)