Folk Bands and Artists

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Queerfolk: Sophie Crawford and George Sansome

Sophie Crawford and George Sansome are the founders of Queer Folk – an organisation that researches queer music and champions LGBTQIA+ musicians. Since finding a wealth of LGBTQIA+ folk music in the a…

Quercus

Three unique musicians converge to create an evocative mixture of words and music, encompassing jazz, folk and traditional songs in contemporary settings. Saxophonist Iain Ballamy, and pianist Huw War…

Quest Ensemble

Collaborative Improvised Contemporary Piano Trio “Compositionally complex, inventive in technique and wonderfully ambiguous in tonality, this was a joy to behold“ - Jazzwise

www.questensemble.co.uk

Quicksilver

Birmingham

An absolute treat: some of the funniest songs ever written. Grant Baynham is one of the funniest songwriters ever to have put pen to paper. His side-splitting rhymes make Quicksilver an outstandingl…

Quiet Loner

QUIET LONER is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill. Quiet Loner sings songs about love and fear, life and death, despair and hope. On a live stage Hill is an understated yet powerful performer del…

Quiet Quiet Band

quietquietband.com

Quimantu

London

Quimantu has always been very active in the UK and abroad with a busy programme of touring concerts, festivals, recordings and education and outreach work. Highlights for 2017 include a concert at St …

Quinn Oulton

London

South London based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist & producer Quinn Oulton exhibits a raw sound, melding soaring vocals and tangled acoustic textures with abstract electronics. The sound is deeply uni…

R.Loomes

Solo Musician, Doom Folk

R.W. Hedges

RW Hedges and Luca Nieri return with the launch of ‘The Hills Are Old Songs’, the follow up to 2018’s ‘The Hunters in the Snow’ collection. The album has a strong unifying theme, set in the American W…

Rachael Cohen

London

Saxophonist and composer Rachael Cohen is one of the brightest stars of her generation. Originally from the Shetland Islands, she won a scholarship in 2006 to study jazz at The Birmingham Conservatoir…

Rachael Dadd

Bristol

Rachael Dadd is originally from Bristol but we can consider her an international artist. A genre blend of folk, experimental and joyous pop, her unique voice and disarming lyrical world has long defin…

Rachael Jean Harris

Rachael Jean Harris carves a highly individual sound, blurring the lines between folk, jazz and indie, drawing from a love of adventurous writers such as PJ Harvey, Esperanza Spalding and Kate Bush an…

Rachael Mailer

Rachael Mailer is a queer singer songwriter based in South London. Her original music touches on themes of romance, unrequited love and identity and is guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings

Rachael McShane & The Cartographers

Rachael McShane is a singer, cellist, fiddle and viola player based in the North East of England. An original member of folk big band Bellowhead, Rachael toured internationally with them as well as ma…

Rachael Sage

A soulful vocalist and innovative multi-instrumentalist, award-winning singer/songwriter and producer Rachael Sage has earned a loyal international following for her dynamic piano playing, delicate gu…

Rachel Baiman

A fiddle/banjo player, singer, and songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. Specialising in Old Time, Bluegrass, Scottish, and Folk music, her interests are diverse and range from the oldest fiddle trad…

Rachel Bell

From USA, performs with Eloise & Co, Alchemy, Peregrine Road

Rachel Carstairs

As a special guest we have Rachel Carstairs, one of Scotland’s most exciting young traditional singers/violinists. Once she finishes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland the world will be her oyster…

www.crailfolkclub.org.uk

Rachel Croft

Indie Blues Rock Folk artist from York, UK

Rachel Eddy

A very talented old-time music performer and teacher from Morgantown, West Virginia. Rachel was born and raised in rural WV just south of Morgantown, where her musical family inspired her to play and …

Rachel Harrington

Reared among the Pentecostal pines in the farthest corner of the American West, Rachel Harrington’s albums have lauded her high praise. When Bob Harris first heard her in ‘07, he hailed her debut as, …

Rachel Hill

The last six months have marked Rachel Hill as an artist to watch for 2023. An incredible live performer, Rachel organised her debut house concert tour of England, performing her one woman show fo…

Rachel K Collier

A one-woman electronic production machine and die-hard Ableton enthusiast, Collier is known for using a multi-instrument technical setup to enable her to perform her song-focused, high-energy studio p…

Rachel Laven

A positive force of nature on stage, Laven not only captivates with her smiling lyricism but with the timber of a voice that sounds straight out of her chest. In the tradition of her cherished influen…

Rachel Long

RACHEL LONG is a writer, poet and spoken word artist from London. She has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and the Olympic Stadium. Published by Forward Poetry, The Emma Press and Goldfish Magazin…

Rachel Newton

Singer and harpist Rachel Newton was named the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year and the Scots Trad Music Award Instrumentalist of the Year 2016. Her third solo album Here´s My Heart Come Tak…

Rachel Newton Trio

Glasgow

Founder member of The Furrow Collective, The Emily Portman Trio and The Shee, singer and harpist Rachel Newton also writes and performs her own solo material, releasing albums The Shadow Side in 2012 …

Rachel Piercey

London

Poet and editor at the Emma Press

Rachel Rose Reid

London

“Immense skill and breathless conviction ...There´s no faulting Reid´s command of her craft“ The Times Bringing together the narratives and songs of her own ancestors, and the tales shared by ne…