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Photographs Of The Year 2025: Opinion

Here’s a small but perfectly formed little selection of images from our photographer team in the Live Review pages of 2025.

A Kate Rusby Christmas bonanza – the new double album and seasonal tour hit Manchester – all on the same day.

Sam Kelly (in duo format accompanied by Jamie Francis) makes an end of year appearance at Over Hulton Folk Club.

Seuras heads to Shrewsbury for an in depth view of the 2025 Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

We’re celebrating Spring with a new Kate Rusby album and tour as we head over to Halifax for the second date of the new tour.

New song ahead of a new album from Sam Kelly – reasons to be cheerful part 1.

We’re back at a Kate Rusby (Est. 1973) show – her first in Manchester’s Stoller Hall.

Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys bring the album launch tour for The Wishing Tree to Manchester Night & Day.

Sam Kelly breaks the four year(!) wait for a new album. He’s back with The Lost Boys and The Wishing Tree.

Kirsty Merryn follows up the promise of the excellent She And I with a new record that strips things back yet delivers haunting atmospheres.

News of all things folk as Manchester becomes a mecca for folk music fans this week.