DANISH folk group Basco will be releasing a new album on June 2, and will follow it with a tour that will include a stop in Cumbria.

The tour, which will showcase the new material from album ‘Interesting Times’, brings the band’s mix of folk and traditional Nordic sounds to the Florence Arts Centre in Egremont on Sunday June 11.

Frontman Hal Parfitt-Murray said of the album: “Whether we want to or not, there is no escaping it. We live in the sort of times that will be referred to by historians as ‘interesting’. Change is coming.”

A band whose main aim is to tell stories, t’Interesting Times’ is the band’s fourth album.

The album also includes the four piece performing with singer Jullie Hjetland and The Danish Radio Big Band.

Basco are Hal Parfitt Murray on vocals, violin and mandolin; Andreas Tophøj playing violin and viola; Ale Carr on cittern; and Anders Ringgaard playing accordion and trombone.

They met at the Carl Nielsen Academy of music in Odense, Denmark.