*Almost* selling out! But thank you - I'm just glad so many people will get to see Hattie and March play!

Anyway, if you're in Nottingham and want a cosy close to your weekend, there are a few tickets left on the door tonight for Hattie Whitehead and March at Peggy's Skylight. See you there?

Anyway, nothing funnier/more beautiful/more exciting than seeing groups like Molly No-Mates use traditional British culture to trample all over oppressive far-right fools.

When one of the far right's favourite pieces of rhetoric is to claim the dilution of our culture, this is really important to remember.

The solution isn't to assault other cultures. It is simply to stop neglecting our own.

We need to share and celebrate our culture, not suppress everyone else's.

Anyway, say hello. Come to gigs. We're mostly in Nottingham this year, with Hattie Whitehead playing Peggy's Skylight on Nov 17th and Burd Ellen at the same venue on Dec 15th. Next January 19th Martin Carthy joins us. Fun fun fun.

I am whatever the opposite of a gatekeeper is. Not for me, the strict rules we hold for music to. Let's open the gates, let's make sure everyone feels welcome in the good community!

Let's celebrate trad folk, but let's also play around with what folk is and can potentially be!

I've recently launched Modern Folk, a newsletter/essay Hybrid Substack. It's very good and you should probably subscribe.

folkroom.substack.com