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MAT MARTIN will be contributing articles from Canada to UK folk music website SPIRAL EARTH over the winter. He has already submitted a show review which will be followed by an interview with David Francey. You can see the introduction to his series and the first article at the Spiral Earth site.

We are very excited to announce that Kreg is going out on tour supporting one of Norway’s biggest artists, Sivert Hoyem. Click here to see a full list of dates and come hear him play!

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on some of Kreg’s new songs, the time has come. On October 7th Sony Records Norway (SRN) will release Kreg’s new track, “Half-Baked News,” on iTunes, Spotify, Wimp, and all other digital outlets. Be sure to tune in and listen! But wait–there’s more! For you vinyl fans, SRN will also be printing a very limited run of “Half-Baked News” on vinyl, with “The Well” on the b-side. Stay tuned for more details on how you can get a copy.

JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH is leaving on tour in late October for British Columbia and Alberta, with tour dates encompassing Vancouver and several outlying towns. She will be giving a combination of duo shows with MAT MARTIN and trio shows with Mat and SALMON AVALANCHE, and the three will be giving workshops as they travel, as the core of the new SONGBIRDS TRAVELLING MUSIC SCHOOL.

See the full list of confirmed dates at Joanna’s website, and download the tour press release here.

THE SONGBIRDS TRAVELLING MUSIC SCHOOL is a wandering, rotating bank of diverse musicians offering private lessons, group lessons and workshops to individuals, venues, arts centres and festivals on their touring routes. Flatpack artists JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH, SALMON AVALANCHE AND MAT MARTIN are offering workshops and lessons on their touring routes.

Click here for more information.

KREG VIESSELMAN’s new album, ”If You Lose Your Light” is finished and will be released by Sony in Norway in October. The following nice people were involved in the following nice ways:

Bjarne Stensli: Co-production, Engineer, Mixing | Anne Lise Frøkedal: Harmony Vocals | Sondre Meisfjord: Bass, 2nd Guitar | Øystein Hvamen Rasmussen: Percussion | Bjarne Gustavsen: Piano

More details, including UK touring plans, to follow soon…

Mixing is complete on JOANNA CHAPMAN-SMITH‘s forthcoming album LOVE ME DEEPLY. The album was tracked in Vancouver, BC, CAN over the last year, and the mixing has been overseen by MAT MARTIN at Valley Wood Studios in Leeds, UK. Engineer Barkley McKay has brought out the wide, sweeping arrangements of Elliot Vaughan and the inspired playing of a host of musicians, including guest vocals from Sarah MacDougall.

The album is scheduled for release in 2012, and Joanna will be on tour throughout the year, on both sides of the Atlantic. Click here for details of her touring periods.

This is the new single from UK Americana songwriter QUIET LONER, a long-term friend of Flatpack. ‘There Go The Ghosts’ is a track from his album ‘Spectrology’, produced by MAT MARTIN and featuring him on banjo, too. The B-sides to this release are taken from the original demos for the album, and feature some wonderfully raw performances of hitherto unreleased songs.

The ‘There Go The Ghosts’ E.P. is out this week, and can be downloaded for free from the Little Red Rabbit Records website.