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Our Artists

Our Artists

Our Artists

321

321 is Kate, Ric and Dom.
3 voices, bass, guitar and drums.
Somewhere between Folk and Punk. Maybe that’s Polk.

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9Bach

9Bach’s music is an atmospheric, evocative, and emotional hybrid of the Welsh folk tradition, and of contemporary influences and working practices. Building on a deepened, almost ambient sound picture, the songs take you into the landscape and the emotions that it evokes.

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Abel Selaocoe

South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is redefining the parameters of the cello.

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Adam Beattie

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Beattie has become a celebrated musician of the London scene.

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Adrian Freedman

Composer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in the shakuhachi, Japanese zen flute.

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Ahmet Ozan Baysal

Ahmet Ozan Baysal is a Turkish bağlama (saz) player, composer and performer, specialising in şelpe – an Anatolian bağlama performance technique that dispenses with a plectrum.

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Aidan O’Rourke (Lau)

“Few contemporary musicians in any category can match either his artistic ambitions or his achievements in bringing them to fruition” (The Scotsman)

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AJIMAL

“Touches of Bon Iver and Jeff Buckley ring true, however AJIMAL sculpts an illimitable soundscape that is entirely his own.” – Crack in the Road

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AK Patterson

AK Patterson is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with a dark and mesmeric sound.

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Alasdair Roberts

“He discovers the inner mystery of traditional music and shows that if this infinitely expressive material is respected, it may yet reward us with results that sound utterly unprecedented. Five stars.” – The Times

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Alaw

“Welsh musicians don’t come more sensitive, accomplished and exploratory than this crew” fROOTS

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Alex Lyon

Alex Lyon is an eclectic, cross-genre musician and composer based in South East London, specialising in contemporary music and free improvisation on clarinet and bass clarinet.

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Alfi

Trio combining American old-time and traditional Irish music and song to produce a unique and tasteful sound. Their music features an unusual blend of harp, five-string banjo, low whistle, uilleann pipes and vocals.

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Alice Zawadzki

Award-winning vocalist, violinist, songwriter and composer.

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Sam Grassie

Rootsy folk guitarist inspired by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, and the British folk revival.

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Alison Sudol

Alison Sudol is a singer-songwriter, musician, actress and video director.

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Alvorada

“Inventive harmonies and unpredictable melodic twists” ★★★★★ – Songlines magazine

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Amateur Theatre Group

Amateur Theatre Group’s gently mushrooming indie sounds found admirers including plays on the BBC and NTS.

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Andrew Cronshaw

British multi-instrumentalist, playing a 74-stringed electrified chord zither, marovantele, a wide range of wind instruments including fujara and ba-wu.

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Angeline Morrison

Angeline Morrison is a folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose 2022 album ‘The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience’ was voted No 1 Folk Album of the year in The Guardian.

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Angharad Wynne

Angharad Wynne is a published author and poet, and a storyteller with a background in history and archaeology.

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Anita Sethi

Anita Sethi is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster.

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Aniya Savage

Ethereal, haunting vocals paint pictures of Aniya Savage’s multi-cultural life. Her songwriting tells stories that are entrenched in vivid emotion.

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Anna Ling

Anna Ling is a singer-songwriter, teacher, and community choir leader based in Totnes.

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Anna Meredith

Anna Meredith (MBE) is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music.

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Anna Mieke

Solo and collaborative artist, who performs on Greek bouzouki, guitar and piano.

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Anna Mudeka

Multi-instrumentalist, actress, singer, writer and educator, Anna Mudeka is a polymath proud to share the ancestral heritage of her native Zimbabwe through performance and workshops.

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Anna Phoebe

Anna Phoebe is a violinist and composer on cross-genre collaborative projects, working across science, space, poetry, dance, film and art.

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Archie Churchill-Moss

Widely regarded as one of the best players of English traditional music, Archie has worked as a session musician for some of the UK’s top folk acts.

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Arran Glass

Arran Glass is a British composer, songwriter, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist with a background in theatre making and live performance.

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Arthur Jeffes (Penguin Café)

“Culturally omnivorous instrumentals of considerable elegance and ingenuity” — MOJO

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Arthur Sawbridge

Composer Arthur Sawbridge uses violin, electronic effects and loops to create expansive and transportive soundscapes.

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Auka

“Ethereal and euphoric – utterly stunning” – BBC Introducing

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Avawaves

“There is the idea that classical music always connotes a certain image of gracefulness or elegance, but it can be more gritty and raw…”

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Ayanna Witter-Johnson

Singer, songwriter, cellist.

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Balladeste

“Gorgeous compositions and swooning melodies with warmth and fervour that demand attention” – The Musician

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Baque Luar

Baque Luar is a London-based collective of female and non-binary vocalists and percussionists from diverse backgrounds, united by their love of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian roots music.

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Ben and Dom

Ben & Dom are an a cappella singing duo from South London.

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Benjin

Benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, artist and storyteller who has toured and recorded with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 15 years.

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Ben See

Ben See is a singer and composer from London. He specialises in vocal music, and more specifically contemporary a cappella.

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Ben Walker & Kirsty Merryn

BBC Folk Award winner Ben Walker joins forces with highly acclaimed singer and pianist Kirsty Merryn to create a fresh take on a tradition ripe for rediscovery.

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Bernard Butler

English musician and record producer. One of Britain’s most original and influential guitarists.

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Beth Porter

A master collaborator, songwriter, cellist and artist.

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Bethan Lloyd

Bethan Lloyd is a Welsh artist whose trance inducing vocals expand over an ocean of rave inspired production, harmonic layering and otherworldly ecstasy. Her sonic exploration has taken her from training as a classical singer, immersing herself in Berlin’s experimental music scene, to learning with shamans, masters and the ancient teachings of the natural world.

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Bev Lee Harling

Declared ‘simply brilliant’ by BBC6 DJ Gilles Peterson, Bev is a multi-genre vocalist, violinist and composer working across performance, theatre, dance, film and opera bringing classical, folk, jazz and found sounds to her projects and collaborations.

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Bill Laurance (Snarky Puppy)

Pianist, keyboardist and composer Bill Laurance’s music evokes a striking sense of time and place.

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Bird In The Belly

“Welsh musicians don’t come more sensitive, accomplished and exploratory than this Brighton folk collective creating their own darkly poetic blend of little known stories and songs.”

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Blair Dunlop

“Dunlop brings an air of tenacity while displaying a fine repertoire of well-crafted songs spanning traditional and contemporary. He’s determinedly taking the traditions of folk in his own direction” – The Independent

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Blythe Pepino

Singer, a songwriter, a front woman, an activist and a choir leader.

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Boo Hewerdine

For over 30 years Boo Hewerdine has been considered one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters.

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Brian Briggs

Brian Briggs is a member of the highly acclaimed folk band Stornaway, a doctor of ornithology, and a senior reserve warden at Llanelli’s Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) Wetland Centre.

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Bridget O’Donnell

Australian violinist Bridget O’Donnell is enjoying a varied career as a chamber and orchestral musician in the classical and folk scene.

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Briony Greenhill

An artist practicing, performing and recording primarily improvised music on themes of human depth, paradigm shift, the intimacy and bigger picture of our times.

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Brona McVittie

“★★★★ McVittie’s voice is clear, hypnotic and uncannily timeless, floating between Broadcast’s Trish Keenan and Clannad’s Moya Brennan. A fantastic, exploratory record that draws you in” – Mojo

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Bruce Molsky

“Molsky is easily one of the nation’s most talented fiddlers…”.

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Burd Ellen

“the idea of Burd Ellen is to discover new ways to explore the British folk tradition and this record certainly accomplishes that … haunting” – The Wire Magazine

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Bush Gothic

Rattled by the bones of convicts and steeped in campfire smoke, Bush Gothic perform darker, stranger Australian folk.

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Byron Wallen

A true jazz spirit. Byron’s always-absorbing music genuinely draws in disparate elements of African and Eastern cultures.

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Cahalen Morrison

Equally at home on guitar, banjo, mandolin, singing three part harmony or unaccompanied, Cahalen Morrison has carved out a place for himself as a unique voice in American music.

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Caitlin Gilligan

“..she sings with a singular clear-eyed intensity of her own.” – Folk Radio

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Caitlin Moran

“Caitlin Moran is the sharpest, funniest, most influential writer of her generation” – Stuart Maconie

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Calan

“A storming juggernaut of cool-Cymru-with-attitude power-folk with a jaw-dropping repertoire” – Folk Wales

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Carrivick Sisters

One of the UK’s top young bluegrass and folk acts.

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Cassandre Balbar

Cassandre Balbar specialises in recorder and Galician bagpipes, and is prolific in many different kinds of traditions, performing with bands across Italy, the UK, France, Sweden, Anatolia and more recently North-West Africa.

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Catherine Rudie

“A fascinating debut. Her rootsy voice and folk melodies mesh with electronic sounds, warmly drawing you in.” – The Guardian

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Cecilia Ndhlovu

Accompanied by delicate mbira melodies and hypnotic rhythms, Cecilia’s intimate vocals have the power to transcend styles and will transport you on a unique and enriching communal journey.

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Ceilidh Liberation Front

London’s most radical and vivacious ceilidh band. Liberating the dancefloor with their energetic new regime of folk dance, they breathe vigour and vitality into the traditional ceilidh, whilst honouring its roots and traditions.

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Ceitidh Mac

Ceitidh Mac blends the warming tones of the cello and mellow vocals to create a transformative sound that puts a progressive twist on the alt.folk genre.

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Charlotte Pulver

Charlotte is a modern day alchemist and lover of the waters.

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Chris Cundy

Playing low, rarified woodwinds and primarily bass clarinet, Chris Cundy explores a music where free improvisation and composition meet.

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Chris Park

Chris Park’s work includes arts and craft, ancient technologies, experimental archaeology and educational projects to eco-building, professional storytelling, folk music and raising the awareness of the heritage of beekeeping.

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Chris Wood

Chris Wood is an English songwriter and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings.

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Claire Vine

Songwriter Claire Vine takes political and social commentary combined succinctly with uncompromising moments of raw beauty to produce songs that sound like they’ve always existed.

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Comorian

The Comorian duo features singers and instrument-builders, M’madi and Soubi, who utilize homemade double-sided guitars.

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Conor Gricmanis

Conor Gricmanis is a young and pioneering Baroque Violinist who combines his passions for historical performance and composition to explore never-ending palettes of performance style, colour, and flair.

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Cosmo Sheldrake

Multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer.

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Cup O’Joe

“They make a truly gorgeous sound and play with such intuition as only a family can do.” – Cara Dillon

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Cynefin

‘Cynefin’ (pr. kuh-neh-vin) is the creative vision of West Wales native Owen Shiers. Fascinated by music and history, it is a bid to give a modern voice to Ceredigion’s rich yet neglected cultural heritage.

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Danny Keane

With his varied skills, and ability to bridge the gap between genres, Danny has established himself as a versatile musician, much in demand as a performer, string arranger and orchestrator.

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David Bramwell

Renowned British writer, musician, performer and broadcaster.

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David Gunawardana

With the whispers of Gillian Welch and Anne Briggs hovering around him, David Gunawardana casts a spell with every performance.

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David Lindo

David Lindo is a naturalist, writer, broadcaster, speaker, photographer, wildlife tour leader and educationist.

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David Rothenberg

Musician, composer, author and philosopher-naturalist.

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Debs Newbold

Debs Newbold is an award-winning storyteller, director, performer and playwright who creates fresh, playful work that gets deep under the skin.

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Devon Sproule

Devon Sproule’s music welcomes the magical and the tangible.  It celebrates human complication in the language of nature.

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Dietrich Strause

DIETRICH STRAUSE is a Boston-based songwriter and multi instrumentalist.

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Dizraeli

Poet, producer, firestarter. Songwriter-MC, multi instrumentalist-raconteur… Dizraeli is a genre of his own.

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Dr Amy-Jane Beer

Dr Amy Jane Beer is a biologist, nature writer and campaigner, based in North Yorkshire.

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Dylan Walker

Dylan Walker is an ecologist and founder of Wilderlife.

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Eileen Hall

Eileen Hall is the Creative Director and Artist for Tayos, a multidisciplinary and multicultural collective of artists, musicians and scientists looking to reconnect people to nature through art, music & immersive experiences.

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Eliza Shaddad

Critically acclaimed Sudanese-Scottish artist, songwriter and folk-singer.

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Elle Osborne

Lincolnshire fiddle singer, composer, and collaborator par excellence.

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Ellie Wilson

‘Exquisite beauty offered by Ellie Wilson’s controlled violin’ – Mojo Magazine

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Eliza Marshall

One of the most multi-faceted flautists of her time, Eliza’s musical path has followed her musical passions; diverse, organic and without boundaries. From tours with Peter Gabriel, recording Sam Smith’s Bond Theme, Top of the Pops with Katie Melua, to holding the flute chair at The Lyceum Theatre in London’s West End for The Lion King since 2015.

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Emmanuela Yogolelo

Originally from the Upper Zaire and Kivu in the Eastern DR Congo, Emmanuela Yogolelo is a singer-songwriter, live performer, workshop facilitator, speaker and cultural leader, whose musical performances are a combination of authentic, fusion and world music.

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Emily Hall

Emily Hall is a composer, a violinist and a producer.

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Emily Hanna-Grazebrook

Emily is a professional storyteller and singer from North London.

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Emily Portman & Rob Harbron

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron are two of the finest and most distinctive performers on the British folk scene.

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Eska

The Zimbabwean born, SE-London raised performance artist, composer and producer is a creative force to be reckoned with.

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Esther Swift

Likened to Kate Bush, Anna Meredith and Bjork, Esther Swift explores ritual, connection, isolation, and the natural world in her performance with pedal harp and voice.

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Ewan McLennan

Ewan’s unique, moving and earthy voice is always compelling for its depth of feeling and sincerity.

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Faith i Branko

Leading Serbian Roma violinist Branko Ristic and English ‘passionate nimble-fingered accordionist’ Faith Elliott perform virtuosic original Roma-influenced music with their international ensemble.

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Farhana Yamin

An internationally recognised environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert, Farhana has advised leaders and countries for 20 years.

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Fatima Lahham

Fatima Lahham is an improvising recorder player.

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Fay Hield

A singer born knowing how to carry a tune, but with a rarer gift of knowing how to go straight to the heart.

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Fellow Pynins

Fellow Pynins is a Portland, Oregon based contemporary folk duo with an anchor in the balladry tradition.

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Finn Collinson

Heralded by The Recorder Magazine as a “folk recorder pioneer”, Finn Collinson has rapidly been gaining a reputation as one of the foremost exponents of his instrument on the English folk scene.

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Fiona Fey

Multi instrumentalist and skilful songwriter.

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Fire Choir

Fire Choir is a community choir led by Blythe Pepino and Alex Etchart.

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Flo Perlin

Contemporary folk singer-songwriter from London with Iraqi and Belarusian heritage.

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Flora Curzon

​​​Flora Curzon is an award-winning violinist based in London.

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Ford Collier

Ford Collier is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and performer of folk music who specialises in weaving influences from diverse traditions into his music.

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Francesca Simmons

Violinist and independent artist.

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Frankie Archer

Frankie Archer has exploded onto the electrofolk scene with music that transcends stereotypes using a combination of manipulated samples, synths, drum tracks and earthy Northumbrian fiddle and voice.

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Fredy Clue

Music that descends from inner work in harmony with nature, with power and a will to open up the thicket of emotion that so often ensnares us.

 

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Fred Hills Trio

Ambitious, diverse and heavily swayed by extraordinary sound, Fred Hills creates captivating compositions by fusing influences from around the musical world.

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Fritillaries

Americana instrumentation, folksy rootedness and a pop song sensibility; Fritillaries’ music is sometimes upbeat and gnarly, sometimes slow and contemplative, and always original and engaging.

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Fyfe Dangerfield

Fyfe Dangerfield, perhaps best known as the frontman of the band Guillemots, was born in the land of Birmingham, England in July of 1980, and found himself tottering towards the family’s piano by the age of three…

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Gasper Nali

Gasper Nali is a roots one-man-band from the small town of Nkhata Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi.

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Genevieve Tudor

Genevieve presents the Sunday evening folk show on Radio Shropshire.

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Georgia Duncan

“Amazingly delicate, hair-stand-up-on your neck harmonies, ominous and beautiful. A distinct voice.” – The Fader

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Georgia Ruth Williams

Bilingual singer, songwriter and harpist from Aberystwyth in West Wales.

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Germa Adan

“An intriguing collection of songs drawn from Haitian lullaby, sacred harp, English tradition and original compositions”

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Gerry Diver

Virtuoso fiddle player and multi instrumentalist.

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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly

Returning in its original form, live for a 15 year celebration (rhythm & horn section) Sam Duckworth will be touring The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager in full. 

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ghostgirl

Kay Rowan (she/her) is a trans composer, songwriter, actor, music(er) and word(er), currently based in London.

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Good Habits

“This duo has an infectious energy and joy that’s impossible to resist” – Folk Radio UK

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Granny’s Attic

“Great tunes, great energy, great arrangements, great stuff!” – Jon Boden

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Gnoss

“Gnoss are one of those rare birds in folk: a group you can name after hearing their first notes.” – Folk Radio UK

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Green Ribbons

A project dedicated to the celebration of unaccompanied song.

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Greg Russell

“Russell can do the personal as skillfully as he does the political” – FRUK

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Guy Shrubsole

Author, campaigner, and investigator at Friends of the Earth.

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Gwilym Bowen Rhys

Bringing ancient Welsh lyrics and melodies to life with his own progressive musical approach.

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Gwyneth Herbert

Performer, composer / lyricist and musical activist Gwyneth Herbert has been hailed as one the most imaginative and idiosyncratic artists of her generation.

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Hands of the Heron

Alt-folk project from Bristol. Their instantly recognisable vocal harmonies are delivered by four frontwomen, each of whom brings a signature writing style to the band’s mercurial sound.

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Hannah Read

Hannah Read is a versatile multi-instrumentalist widely recognised on the international stage.

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Harry Christelis

Harry Christelis has established himself as a musician with a delicate and understated approach, with a focus on creating immersive sonic landscapes with a hypnotic quality.

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Holly Jacks

Holly Jacks runs a choir and also leads singing sessions that promote well-being through music.

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Hope & Social

“a big sound from this impressive outfit…inspired, anthemic, great” – Q magazine

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Hyelim Kim

Composer and taegŭm (Korean flute) soloist.

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Idrîsî Ensemble

Idrîsî Ensemble are performers exploring rare, never-recorded and endangered music from the ancient Mediterranean. For Magpie’s Nest 2023 they will perform an a cappella program bridging troubadour song, early polyphony, Corsican, Greek and Finnish oral traditions.

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India Blue

India Blue is a contemporary folk musician and multi-instrumentalist (as well as Yoga Teacher, bread baker and mushroom lover.)

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Intarsia

Jo May & Sarah Matthews bring together voice, violin, viola, octave fiddle, tenor guitar, balafon & a wide range of other percussion instruments.

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Iona Fyfe

Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland’s finest young ballad singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland.

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Iona Lane

“Iona Lane seems to me already to have a very strong identity and focus as an emergent young artist. I’m impressed by the quality of her songs and her performance” – Karine Polwart

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Isobel Waller-Bridge

Award-winning composer at the forefront of a new wave of emerging artists in film, television and theatre.

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Jack Durtnall

Jack Durtnall is a multi-instrumentalist, soprano saxophonist and singer. A lover of folksong and nature connection, Jack is a keen improviser and listener able to blend and bridge the traditionally jazz-orientated tones of the saxophone into the realms of folk.

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Jack McNeill

Clarinettist, composer and maker Jack McNeill is a musician exploring the intersections of different traditions and sound worlds.

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Jack Rutter

Yorkshire folk singer Jack Rutter has established himself as one of the standout voices of the folk, roots and acoustic music scene in recent years.

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Jackie Morris

Jackie is a celebrated author and illustrator. As well as publishing numerous of her own books, she has worked for many famous authors and clients including Oxfam, Amnesty and Greenpeace.

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The Jackie Oates Trio

Jackie Oates is an English folk singer, fiddle-player, performer and educator. She is considered one of the mainstays of an accomplished, informed and stylistically individual English traditional music scene that began in the early 2000s and continues to thrive.

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Jacob & Drinkwater

Inventive and thrilling alt-folk duo.

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Jali Bakary Konteh

Born into a remarkable musical lineage and steeped in Gambia’s griot tradition, Jali Bakary is the latest torchbearer for his family’s kora legacy on the world stage.

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Jally Kebba Susso

London’s favourite kora player. Pioneer of afro-electro kora music.

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James Riley

Born of a transatlantic partnership, James grew up in South East London listening to the folk and soul sound of 70s America.

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Jamie Walton

“Walton is as emotionally committed as anyone, and makes a big, beautiful sound while unflinchingly probing to the very heart of this powerful music” – Times Magazine

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Jan Blake

Powerful and bold, Jan Blake is an outstanding storyteller, who performs in theatres and festivals the length and breadth of Europe.

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Jay Chakravorty

“utterly gorgeous” – Lauren Laverne, BBC 6Music

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Jay Griffiths

“Jay Griffiths is a fearless adventurer with words and images. Her work isn’t just good – it’s necessary.” – Phillip Pullman

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Jim Moray

“simple, warm and unfettered” – The Guardian

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Jenny Sturgeon

Jenny Sturgeon is a singer-songwriter “who brings together the old and new with a rare skill”.

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Jessie Buckley

Jessie Buckley is an Irish actress and singer.

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Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith

Amazing duo playing traditional folk music of the British Isles, highlighting issues of ecology, resistance and political struggle.

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Jocelyn Pook

One of the UK’s most versatile composers, having written for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall.

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John Lewis-Stempel

John Lewis-Stempel is an award-winning writer predominantly known for his books on nature and history.

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Johnny Flynn

An actor, poet, and Americana-styled songwriter.

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Jonah Spindel

Cellist and Composer Jonah Spindel works in all kinds of musical roles and settings as a chamber musician, soloist, improviser, collaborative artist, teacher and workshop leader.

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Jon Boden

“One of the most venerated of the younger Brit Folk generation” – The Guardian

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Jon Ouin

Jon Ouin is a composer and music producer based in Oxford. He was a member of the band Stornoway, with whom he toured around the world.

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Jon Wilks

Jon Wilks’ live shows are an amusing mix of folk song performance and conversation, throwing in tidbits of weird and wonderful information about the original singers and collectors that he has come across during his writing research as a journalist.

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Jonny Byers

Cellist and Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

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Joseph O’Keefe

Joseph O’Keefe moves between violin, piano, guitar and accordion with a willingness to experiment with folk forms from different cultures.

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Josh Doughty

Josh combines traditional rhythms with modern Western influences, composing pieces with an accomplished individual style that captivates his audience.

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Joshua Burnside

Joshua Burnside is a Northern Irish folk singer-songwriter based in Belfast. His music incorporates elements of Irish folk, and Scottish folk rock, Americana, world music, sound collage and electronica.

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Jow

New acoustic duo of James Gow (cello) and Pete Judge (trumpet).

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Julie Fowlis

A multi-award winning Gaelic singer.

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Julie Murphy and Ceri Matthews

“Their music is rapturous and alive”

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Junior Brother

Alternative Irish Folk Singer from Kerry with Acoustic Guitar and Tambourine.

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Justin Adams

Justin Adams, guitarist, producer and composer, has been a creator of wonders with Robert Plant in his band, the aptly named Sensational Spaceshifters.

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Kadialy Kouyate

Virtuoso Senegalese singer and kora player, inspired by the West African Griot tradition.

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Kaito Winse

Singer, dancer and multi-instrumentalist, Kaito is also, and above all, the guardian of the rich oral traditions of his homeland. Born in the middle of the desert into a family of griots in Lankoué, a village in the north of Burkina Faso, he had only to bend down to pick up the legacy.

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Kate Stables (This Is The Kit)

Bristol and Paris-based folk singer and banjo enthusiast behind This is the Kit.

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Kate St John

Kate St John is a composer, arranger, producer and instrumentalist (oboe, cor anglais, accordion, saxophone and piano), and member of The Ravishing Beauties, The Dream Academy and Channel Light Vessel.

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Katie Spencer

Progressive folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. “Her articulate picking, with suggestions of folk and jazz, frames intelligently written songs and is the backbone to her music” – Guitarist Magazine

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Karine Polwart

BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer Of The Year 2018, Karine Polwart is a multi-award winning Scottish songwriter and musician.

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Kaviraj Singh

One of the very few Santoor players and Indian vocalists based in the UK.

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Kerry Andrew

Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and author and the winner of four British Composer Awards.

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King Yin

King Yin is a lifelong singer, musician and sound healer, inspired by 20 years of study and practice in various spiritual systems, especially Tibetan Buddhism and Dzogchen.

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Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow

“Fleet fingered and ingeniously arranged. …..deserve to be thought of as up there with the best of them” – Songlines

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Kitty Macfarlane

Award winning Somerset singer songwriter, telling stories of the small part we play in the bigger picture of our planet.

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Lady Nade

“There is no mistaking the tender, powerful, velveteen vocals of Lady Nade.”  – Folk Radio

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Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis

Laonikos (he/him) is a composer and shakuhachi player based in London, fascinated by the space between controlled and uncontrolled sound, human and more-than-human.

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Laura Cannell

Laura Cannell’s music exists as a culturally vital exploration of the link between medieval, traditional and modern musical idioms.

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Letty Stott

Letty is one of the UK’s most innovative and versatile horn players.

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Lewis Barfoot

Lewis is a half Irish & English musician, singer, composer and educator.

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra

“Amazing, frenetic, gloriously anarchic and ultimately joyous!”

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Linos Wengara

Zimbabwean Linos Wengara is a musician, singer, dancer and Mbira and Marimba instrument maker.

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Lisa Knapp

“Knapp isn’t just a great folk artist, she’s a great artist full stop.”

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London Bulgarian Choir

“a guaranteed stunning, aural delight” – Time Out

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Loshn

Loshn are a Klezmer ensemble exploring the traditional music of Ashkenazi Jewish culture. Their interpretation and arrangement of old repertoire sees their music speak, sing and dance with the tradition’s distinct Yiddish accent and vocabulary.

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