Folk Bands and Artists with Gigs in All Our UK Gigs
Louella JC
Louella JC is a singer-songwriter. Accompanying herself on guitar, banjo and ukelele, Lou’s songs, often about London, range from angry tales of social injustice through the trials of navigating conte…
Louis Brennan
Dublin
London based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-r…
www.louisbrennanmusic.comLouis Campbell
Alternative-Folk Musician raised in the West-Country, based in Manchester, UK. Member of The Sam Sweeney Band and student of Martin Simpson.
Louise Rogan
Bury
Louise Rogan sings original and her own arrangements of traditional songs accompanied by her Dad, Chris Rogan. In Jan 2023 they won the audience vote at the Great British Folk Festival and in March 2…
Lucy Grubb
Norwich
Lucy Grubb is a singer/songwriter from Norwich blending modern Americana with Country undertones. Inspired by the likes of Johnny Cash, Lucy´s understated guitar rhythms and Country trilled vocal m…
Luke Jackson
Luke is a Singer-Songwriter from Canterbury, Kent. 2016 has been another busy year starting with Kansas Folk Alliance, followed by a double-header tour with Amy Wadge then with Greg Russell & Ciaran A…
Luzmira Zerpa
London
Luzmira Zerpa is a versatile Venezuelan singer/songwriter based in UK who has performed internationally and toured extensively throughout Europe as a solo artist and with her band Family Atlantica. At…
Ma Polaine
London
Maverick Magazine: "quite different to anything out there right now". R2 Magazine: “the songs are gorgeous”. Described as “like a young Billie Holiday gate-crashing a Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones…
Maddie Morris
Maddie Morris is a contemporary folk musician who won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2019 and has been described by Jim Moray as “leading the next generation of socially conscious songwriters.” …
Maddy Prior
Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. A true legend of British music, Maddy Prior has built her career on exploring various musical avenues. Latest a…
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…
Maria Mihailik
Maria Mihailik is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter currently residing in South East London. Maria released her demo, Constant Stranger, on Soundcloud in May 2023 and has performed in a wide range…
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…
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…
Megan Henderson
Megan is multi instrumentalist and singer hailing from the West Highland town of Fort William and is currently ‘Musician of the Year’, as awarded at the 2022 Scots Trad Music Awards. Growing up in a …
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 …