Next Saturday 12th May, Megson will be taking part in a very special event at Cecil Sharp House, Camden, London : “May In A Day is an afternoon festival celebrating all things Spring, including scintillating step dance, maypoles, visual arts & crafts, clogs as well as folk duo Megson performing a special family friendly set from their lovely new album of children’s folk songs ( more on that later !). The festival is designed for everyone but is especially suitable for children under 12 and their families.” Tickets are only £6 are under 2′s are free, full details at  http://www.efdss.org/

Megson have a couple of lovely shows in the south west coming up. These start this Friday April 20th at the wonderful GMC in Gillingham, Dorset – the show is at 7:30pm and tickets can be purchased from  box office : 07817 379006. After that we will be heading across the county border to Marlborough Folk Roots @ St Marys’ Hall, on Saturday 21st April   – this show is at 8:00pm and full details can be seen at http://www.marlboroughfolk-roots.co.uk/.

  Megson are very chuffed to announce a special summer of festival appreances starting at the lovely Doncaster Folk Festival on Saturday May 19th. After that we’ll be heading to The Anvil Basingstokes’ The Forge Bounces festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Broadstars Folk Festival, Greenbelt Festival before finishing up in our local town at Royston Arts Festival in September. As ever, full details can be found on our gigs page .

Well, nearly a year after winning 2 Spiral Earth Awards for BEST DUO & BEST ORIGINAL SONG for “WORKING TOWN”, we were finally presented with our lovely ornamental awards – check out how pretty they look. The 2012 Spiral Earth awards are now open for public votes – and there is some great music nominated so do pop across to Spiral Earth to register your vote HERE

We are very excited to be staring the year with a series of shows – kicking off in February at Clerkenwel”s Wilmington Arms. This first show is part of the ROUT OF THE BLUES series which has seen the likes of Alistair Roberts, Circulus & The Owl Service perform in the last year. Support that night comes from South-East London folk rockers MILKWOOD. If that all sounds too cosmopolitan, then our next show on February 18th is in the atmospheric setting of St Mary Magdalene Church, Dunton Village, Bedfordshire. This is  promoted by the lovely people at Dunton Folk who specialise in Local Cider production – check out their specialist brewery here http://www.duntoncider.co.uk/