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THE Lark Rise Band is coming to the Discovery Centre in Jewry Street, Winchester, on Friday, October 2. The group was founded by Ashley Hutchings to coincide with a production of the classic play, Lark Rise to Candleford, at the National Theatre.

Tonight at the Old Town School of Folk Music veteran British folk-rock band Steeleye Span performs in support of a recent live album commemorating its 40th anniversary.

A TRULY mouth-watering line up of folk singer/songwriters is set to grace the stage in Sleaford next month.

ONE of the dwindling group of folk singers whose flame was lit by hearing Elvis on Radio Luxembourg, ASHLEY Hutchings is a folk singer with the kind of respect for great voices, which is too rare in the genre.

MUSICAL performances by Midge Ure, Roger Davies and the Albion Band, comedy from Jeremy Hardy, Julian Clary and Rich Hall and a Christmas show from Halifax theatre company Northern Broadsides are among the highlights of the new season at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield.

TWO musicians who won the best duo award at the 2009 Radio 2 Folk Awards are heading to the Island later this month.

WINNER of not one but two gongs at this year's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Exeter's Jackie Oates is definitely in the ascendency.

DESPITE the rumbling storm outside the Brewhouse Theatre, The Lark Rise Band soothed a willing audience last Thursday with tales and music relating to Flora Thompsona s nineteenth-century novel, Lark Rise to Candleford.

A TOUCH of Somerset is coming to Mitton in the form of a Cider and Craft Festival this weekend, at the Aspinall Arms.

THE Gathering, a band consisting of legends of folk rock, will be performing at the Gaiety Theatre, Douglas, a week on Saturday .