Artists

Mouth music and musical families. Deep history and playful innovation. Quebec’s Le Vent du Nord knows how to turn the lost past into intense and beautiful performances that push their roots in…

Jamie Smith's MABON is a band beyond borders. Their members range across the British Isles, based in Wales, England and the Isle of Man - and their original, InterCeltic music is rooted in the…

The Mighty Doonans have a deserved reputation for their imaginative and innovative interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. With brass, drums, keyboards, electric guitars and amazing…

There are many reasons to be excited about new Glasgow-based five-piece Ímar – not least a line-up featuring current and former members of Mànran, RURA, Talisk, Barrule, Cara, Mabon and The…

Welsh indie-roots band Rusty Shackle have been tearing up stages around the world since 2010. Brandishing their distinct folk-roots sound and armed with an electrifying mix of rampant fiddle,…

Dave Bordewey, Mick Ryan, James Patterson and Paul Downes have reunited to reform the hugely popular 1980’s group ‘Crows’. ‘Crows’ will play a selection of songs from their much…

The double 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winner: Best Traditional Track & Horizon Award Best Newcomer Although the only singer/musician in his immediate family, Daoirí (pronounced…

Keith Donnelly - stand-up comic, fall-down comedian, surreal snigger-songwriter, guitar-hero, performance-artist, [tall] story-teller, philophoser, scriptwriter, [none can] compere, man-of-mystery,…

2016 Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Award Winners Northern Company are a six-piece Folk group from the north of England. Combining Folk with Bluegrass, Classical and Jazz influences, they arrange…

Granny’s Attic – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (Melodeon, Concertina, Vocals), George Sansome (Guitar, Vocals) and Lewis Wood (Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals) – are a folk trio who play the tradition…

Celebrating their 30th Birthday on our 50th, the ceilidh legends that are Tickled Pink are…

Les Barker writes strange poems and comes from originally from Manchester, but he's now Welsh. He was an accountant before he became a professional idiot. He's written 85 books, which sell in large…

Over the last three years they have built a reputation on the UK folk scene for arresting and moving performances. The songs themselves are always given centre stage but they are brought to life with…

Kitty Macfarlane is a Somerset-based singer and songwriter. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of everyday humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries,…

Jeff Warner is among America’s foremost performer/interpreters of traditional music. His songs from the lumber camps, fishing villages and mountain tops of America connect 21st century audiences…

An extremely talented musician and heart touching songwriter. Rachel harks from York, where she can be regularly be seen sharing her songs, busking around the city…

In 2012 Georgia Lewis and her trio released her self-titled 5-track EP. Since then they have performed at various folk clubs and festivals in the south of England and received air-play on local and…

A musician since the age of 6, Cohen took to squeezeboxes in his teens and has since developed into a fine player of both the melodeon and anglo concertina. As an instrumentalist Cohen is…

Dave and Anni joined forces in 1985, after spending many years around the folk club scene, in which time they featured on several albums made by other performers. Within a short time they teamed…

Graeme’s involvement with folk music goes back over 20 years. He was director of the Doncaster Folk Festival for several years and has been involved in the running of several clubs. Graeme enjoyed…

Midswégan: Meaning "to sing, play or sound together in concert or harmoniously" in Anglo-Saxon, our band name is both our promise to our audiences, and a reminder to ourselves about what on earth…

First performing in folk clubs while a student in Swansea in the late ‘60's, Colin was to become a very popular performer in Midlands folk circles in the first half of the 1970's. There are many…

Ursula Holden Gill is an award winning Actress but in recent years she has walked into the limelight as a first class Storyteller; effortlessly weaving her magic through spoken word, dance and music…

Known as "Shanty Jim" for many years, his knowledge of sea songs, infectious enthusiasm, and powerful singing made him the obvious choice to set up a Tyneside shanty group. The first influence on him…

Flos and Friends are back again for your entertainment for the 15th…

With a distinct musical identity and a growing reputation for providing an entertaining menu of good songs, all well sung and played with commitment, passion and enjoyment, TheSnapes are two fine…

Fold Theatre return to Bromyard with a brand new show …………..‘Beside The Seaside’  It’s full of nostalgia, entertainment and fun! A cast of eleven talented singers and actors take…

Jim, Ingrid & Barrie (Jim Mageean, Ingrid Temple and Barrie Temple) are a brand new trio specialising in sea songs and shanties from their native North East of England, in particular songs of the…

Folk fiddler, singer, & tunesmith currently based in Midhurst, UK. Rowan grew up in the foothills of the Burren on the west coast of Ireland surrounded by traditional music, but has since…

The Cock and Bull Band are truly unique, demonstrating a mastery of musical arrangements that delight the ear whilst igniting the inner dancing spirit. Dancers have always loved their quirky and…

Based in Bromyard, Herefordshire, The Falconers English Folk Dance Band was formed in 1975, initially to play for the fortnightly folk dance club that still meets in the town, but quickly playing to…

The club started after half a dozen future members learned to play the ukulele on a course at The Elgar School of Music, Worcester in May 2010. They and their teacher started practising at the Lamb…

Doctor Sunshine's Pavement Show was founded by Dave Hunt ("Doctor Sunshine") and the late Vic Baker ("Professor Wingnut") over thirty years ago. Since then we have entertained and made friends with…

Shooting Roots is an organisation run by and for young people, offering creative and participatory folk workshops at festivals and other events. In a nutshell it’s all about generating…

Tuneworks started organizing tune workshops at Shrewsbury Folk Festival in 2007. We had the idea of bringing a group of improving tune players together to play a set of common tunes...no more sitting…

Dave Bordewey, Dave Young and Ali Gittens are three of England’s finest folk musicians, Dave B of Crows and Dave Y of Malthouse Passage have been playing together since 2003 with a debut album…

Malcolm Speake and Chris Lowe have been telling stories and singing songs for more years than they care to remember. They were both born just after the end of the Second World War in the Midland City…

Rob Barratt is a Dudley-born and Cornwall-based comic poet, humourist and singer who combines clever word play, verse and song with satire, parody and audience participation. Rob deals with such…

Emma Heath (guitar and vocals) and Mark Davies (bodhran and cajon) are both a musical duo and a real life couple and that closeness and connection helps bring a sincere and "heart on sleeve" element…

Mrs Midnight's play traditional English tunes for traditional English dances, aiming to get people on their feet to dance, but also to please their ears if they just want to listen. We are also…

Lively caller Mike Boston is on hand to explain the dances - the kind that our ancestors danced to in Thomas Hardy's…

The only rock chick caller on the folk circuit, Fee Lock spices up her unerring eye for what the dance floor wants by pogo-ing up and down between cut-glass enunciations. Favourite after danceable…

Geoff is well known as a caller for American Squares and Contra and English Ceilidh. He has been invited to call at national dance festivals, including Whitby, Chippenham and Sidmouth, and is well…

Cate hails from Coventry, with a diverse and immersive folk upbringing. She has worked on many musical productions and events ranging from amateur dramatics to performing in the Proms in the Royal…

Playing together since 2014, Contra Alt Delete is what you get when you mix four nerdy folk musicians with a shared love of contra, cats, and video games. They quickly found their feet in the contra…

Dragonhead are a talented duo offering an eclectic mix of traditional & modern folk with a big slice of Cajun. We use the word 'eclectic' without shame as our first recorded tracks were on a…

Georgia Lewis is folk singer and avid accordionist from the depths of Wiltshire. Classically trained, she studied for her degree in Professional Musicianship at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music…

Jeff Gillett is a singer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, English concertina, mandola, mandolin and Appalachian dulcimer) with a wide and diverse repertoire but a particular liking for traditional…

Jen is an experienced folk dance caller. She calls for ceilidhs, contras and playford dances for dancers of all abilities and ages. She is the founder of Coventry Zesty Playford, part of a movement…

Pete Grassby is a very familiar face to Bromyard Folk Festival. He has been singing and playing folk music for most of his life. He has played and called for folk dances internationally, and is an…

The legendary folk fulcrum, Terry Walden will be joining us again this…

The Night Before (Nicky McConkey - fiddle, Alan Brunier - accordion, Adam Griffin - guitar) play an exciting range of energetic and fun tunes for contra, ceilidh, and Playford dances. Inspired by an…

Samuel Walter is a folk singer from Malvern with an infectious spirit and rich, deep voice. Walter’s tales sing of Jacobite uprisings and the Napoleonic wars, and show his determination to reignite…

  We bring the woods to you The aim of our woodland workshops is to inspire children to develop a life long love of the natural world, and to open their eyes to the opportunities it has to…