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BIRMINGHAM’S much-loved Moseley Folk & Arts Festival returns next September and the first acts have been revealed.

They include the Squeeze, US heroes Wilco and legendary twin brothers The Proclaimers. There’s also Angeline Morrison, the Birmingham-born musician whose recent appearance on Later... With Jools Holland was a watershed moment.

Squeeze will make their Moseley Folk debut. Formed in 1973, the quintessentially British band are famed for hits Cool For Cats and Up The Junction.

After a period apart, the core songwriting duo of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook reunited in 2007 and have been touring, writing and recording together ever since.

Now 60, brothers Craig and Charlie Reid, aka The Proclaimers, appeared at the festival in 2016, singing their well-known songs I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), Letter From America and Let’s Get Married.

Wilco have been one of the most lauded American bands of the last 25 years. Their 2001 collection Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was declared the third best album of the ‘00s by Rolling Stone.

Angeline Morrison’s album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience sees the multi-instrumentalist delve into an often neglected area of Black British history.

Joining them will be Cornish/Welsh-speaking artist Gwenno, whose Tresor was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize 2022; podcasting comedian Blindboy; singer-songwriter Elanor Moss; electronic-folk / avant-pop duo Crewdson and Cevanne

Further line-up announcements will follow in the New Year, along with details of the festival’s expanded food and drink offering and its arts programme.

The festival is from September 1-3 at Moseley Park and Early Bird Weekend tickets (priced £130 adults, £60 under-18s and £285 families (under-12s go free) are on sale now.