Folk Bands and Artists with Gigs in All Our UK Gigs
Maggie Holland
A superb singer, guitarist and banjo player, Maggie is also the writer of some of the very finest contemporary songs, including ‘A Place Called England’ , for which she was honoured for ‘Best Original…
Magpie Lane
Magpie Lane are a five piece band from Oxford and have 25 years of playing mainly English dance music and songs. Expect powerful vocals and vigorous dance tunes on concertina, fiddle, cello, guitar an…
Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman
Ilkley
The celebrated partnership of “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS) with “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY) and recipient of Irish music’s mos…
www.maireandchris.comMan The Lifeboats
London
Man The Lifeboats play raucous, upbeat folk music, for those who like a drink with their tunes. This London five-piece use an array of instruments to craft songs with big choruses that tell stories. …
Marcus Bonfanti
Marcus Bonfanti is an award-winning singer, guitarist & songwriter from London and the new guitarist & singer of legendary British Rock & Roll band Ten Years After. He has also fronts The Ronnie Scott…
Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman
Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are singing, songwriting, strumming and swigging buddies from the badlands of the Cheshire Plain. Radcliffe has been on BBC national radio since the early nineties…
Márta Sebestyén
Budapest
Hungarian folk vocalist and founding member of Hungarian folk group Muzsikás. one of her songs featured in the film The English Patient. She is a UNESCO artist for peace
Martha Tilston
Martha´s interest in song started at an early age. Her father Steve Tilston, acclaimed songwriter and performer and stepmother Maggie Boyle, folk singer, had a great influence on her musically. She sp…
Martin Simpson
Martin Simpson is a multi-award winning musician, singer and songwriter who has worked with Bonnie Raitt, Richard Hawley, Jackson Brown, June Tabor, Richard Thompson and many more, as well as being a …
Mary Lydia Folk
Birmingham, UK
Mary is a vibrant young folk musician and singer from Devon and now based in the Midlands. She has been around folk for her entire life, so her music has a wide variety of influences and styles. Every…
Maya McCourt
Maya McCourt is an inventive and intuitive cellist and vocalist. Switching between elegant cello and swinging single-bass, Maya spans genres to play both solo and with a number of bands and singer-son…
Me Lost Me
Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. The Project of Newcastle-base…
Megson
"For my money Megson are amongst the most exciting trailblazers of British Contemporary Folk." Seth Lakeman. The combined talents of northerners Stu Hanna and Debbie Palmer make the duo ‘Megson’.
www.megsonmusic.co.ukMelissa James
MELISSA JAMES: Stripped Back is to be the new release from the folk-blues meets country-soul singer, Melissa James. A return to the recording studio last summer has resulted in a mini album of acousti…
Merry Hell
MERRY HELL is a band founded on the ever evolving Folk tradition – music made by the people and shared by the people. Though our hearts and souls are tuned to the songs which came before us, we bring …
MG Boulter
MG BOULTER is a singer and songwriter living on the coast of the Thames Estuary, England. Releasing his debut album in Spring 2012 under the name The Whispering Pines, Boulter has been an integral mem…
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions. With both Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker also having toured for the past year with Ma…
Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh
Hertfordshire
Michell, Pfeiffer & Kulesh are a new all-female close harmony folk trio that brings together the exciting talents of Odette Michell, Karen Pfeiffer and Daria Kulesh. Their debut single, The Cossack’s …
Mickelson
San Francisco
Scott Mickelson is an artist/producer from San Francisco. His debut release Flickering was on the Grammy ballot for Best Folk Album and Best Roots Music Performance. His follow up full-length A Wondro…
www.mickelsonmusic.comMike Soper Trio
Playing new pieces inspired by a wide array of sounds and experiences in music and nature, this group prioritises personal and communicative improvisation while maintaining a strong compositional elem…
Mikey Kenney
Liverpool
Mikey Kenney is an original. A passionate and well-respected advocate for traditional music – a brilliant Liverpool-style fiddler drawing primarily on his native North West English and Irish heritage …
www.mikeykenney.co.ukMilkweed
London
Milkweed describe themselves as ‘slacker-trad’, a term that hints at their lo-fi approach to recording music, but not to the evident creativity that has gone into making their new album, Myths and Leg…
Miranda Sykes
Miranda Sykes has been described as a ‘musical chameleon’ reflecting the way that she so easily slips between musical genres as diverse as folk, jazz and rock / pop. She continues to build a solo rep…
Mitchell and Vincent
Based in Somerset, Mitchell and Vincent bring traditional and contemporary styles on fiddle and guitar to folk tunes and songs from around the British Isles, as well as original material drawing on th…
Molly Donnery
Stellar Irish singer Molly Donnery (The Haar) “A voice that encourages ever more attentive listening as you strive to catch every nuance of her impeccable delivery.“ FRUK
Molotov Jukebox
A dance party from start to finish, from world-renowned purveyors of contemporary world music, fronted by the internationally acclaimed actress Natalia Tena.