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Folk By The Oak Festival Presents: Folk Supergroup “Spell Songs” In Thin Air – New Album Tour at Cambridge Corn Exchange

The Spell Songs musicians have developed an intricate new album that has an overarching narrative, capturing the remarkable world of birds from nest to migration.

  • 4th September 2026 - 4th September 2026
  • 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm

“This album is a tremendous and powerful thing…singing bright and fierce right into our contemporary moment” Robert Macfarlane

 

Commissioned by Folk by the Oak Festival, co-released and produced by Hudson Records, supported by Creative Scotland and blessed with exceptional musicians, skilful songwriters and wordsmiths with a remarkable 12 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards between them, Spell Songs’ 3rd studio album, In Thin Air, is the latest culmination of their collective talents, and is now available for pre-order.

Folk by the Oak first commissioned this stellar collection of seven acclaimed Folk and World musicians – Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter and Jim Molyneux – to collaborate on the Spell Songs project back in 2018. What started out as a 1-album project cohered into a close-knit band with its own generous group dynamic that allowed music to flourish.

 

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