Folk Bands and Artists with Gigs in All Our UK Gigs
Jessie Summerhayes
Young poet whose unconscious meditations encompass histories, human relationships and the land around us - telling stories with a new voice.
Jez Lowe
A double nomination in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards – for best singer and best new song – was a timely reminder of Jez Lowe’s standing in the UK folk and acoustic music scene. Not only he is one of the bu…
Jez Lowe & the Bad Pennies
Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies have been playing their songs and music of Northern England for a decade and a half around the folk festivals, clubs and concert stages of the world. “Acoustic simplicity …
Joe Danks
Joe Danks is a percussionist, guitarist and singer from Nottingham. Joe began playing drum kit from the age of 11, achieving Grade 8 with merit at age 16, and has played in bands since he was a teenag…
John Bramwell
I Am Kloot´s singer songwriter John Bramwell, returns to the stage this autumn 2016, armed with his first set of brand new songs since the bands UK 2014 top ten album ´Let It All In´. The Tour will…
John Burgess
John Burgess has been a professional musician since 1987, when he moved to London and subsequently played all over the UK and Europe with Roy Williams, Enrico Tomasso, Warren Vache, Digby Fairweather,…
John Devine
John Devine is a multi instrumentalist, Singer, composer and Uilleann piper with more than 30 years experience performing and recording. John learned his traditional Irish music on the traditional Iri…
John Hegley
London
Mr Hegley was born in Newington Green, North London, and was educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University. His first public performance monies came from busking his songs, initially outside a…
John Jenkins
Meols
Fretsore Records recording artist John Jenkins is the prodigal son of Liverpool music. His return to the game in 2015 was prompted by an Internet-led revival of interest in his former bands The Persua…
John Kirkpatrick
Reknowned folk musician, squeezebox expert and accordion virtuoso.
www.johnkirkpatrick.co.ukJohn McCusker
Born in Bellshill, near Glasgow, John began playing whistle and fiddle as a child and joined the legendary folk outfit Battlefield Band aged 17. During his 11 years with the band, he also released his…
John Spiers
John Spiers is a melodeon and concertina player with a passion for traditional music, particularly that of the Thames Valley and the Vale of the White Horse where he grew up. Mainly self-taught and in…
Johnny Campbell
Steeped in the Traditional music of The British Isles with a focus on Northern English folk, a humorous storyteller and writer of original protest ballads, Johnny is part of a new era of contemporary …
Johnny Coppin
Johnny Coppin is a Gloucestershire - based singer/songwriter formerly with folk-rock band Decameron, and in a duo with Phil Beer (Show of Hands). His albums include `Edge of Day` with writer and poet …
Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly
Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly are a ground-breaking new collaboration that seek to capture the excitement that lies within traditional song and breathe new life into old stories from the British I…
Josienne Clarke
When Josienne Clarke signed to the illustrious independent music champions Rough Trade Records, its founder Geoff Travis told The Guardian that she writes, ‘songs that rearrange your internal emotiona…
Julie Fowlis
Julie Fowlis is a multi-award winning Gaelic singer who is deeply influenced by her early upbringing in the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist. With a career spanning ten years and four studio album…
Julie Matthews
Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. She has been a member of some of the most influential British folk duos (notably While and Matthews) and groups and is acknowledged inter…
Kate Rusby
Barnsley
English folk singer and songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes known as "The Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is one of the most noted cont…
www.katerusby.comKath Tait
Kath Tait is a singer/songwriter who takes her inspiration from the general chaos of modern life . . . and from her extensive employment and marital history (involving many husbands and dayjobs !) H…
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Two-time winners of the BBC Folk Award for Best Duo
kathrynrobertsandseanlakeman.comKathryn Tickell & The Darkening
Kathryn – Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, voice Amy Thatcher – accordion, voice, clog dancing Stef Connor – voice, lyres Kieran Szifris – octave mandolin Joe Truswell – drums, percussion Musicians …
Kathryn Williams
Mercury nominated and critically acclaimed folk artist Kathryn Williams has teamed up with revered jazz musician and vibraphone player Anthony Kerr, to create an album of complete re-imaginings of cla…
Kathy Rhodes
Whitchurch
Kathy Rhodes is a singer/songwriter. Armed with a guitar and a soft, trippy voice, Kathy presents a mixed bag of indie folk originals, and occasionally some covers, filled with elegance, charm and up…
kathyrhodes.comKatie Spencer
Every once in a while we are blessed with a singer who is quite simply born to write and perform exquisite songs with confident, gentle assurance. Based in the UK, Katie Spencer is a progressive-folk …