Folk Bands and Artists
Dreamers´ Circus
London
One of the most talked about acts in the acoustic realm right now, Dreamers’ Circus mine their solid backgrounds in Nordic traditional and roots music to present a genre-bending amalgam of folk sensit…
Dreuw
An Indie Folk, Singer Songwriter from the South West of England, Swindon, Wiltshire. In 2017 Dreuw´s first single ´Wait´ made the Glastonbury Festival Longlist, nominated by London’s Resonance FM quot…
Drew Dixon
Nashville blues/swamp rock artist Drew Dixon was born and raised in the American south. The last few years he’s shared the stage with legendary acts such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Grand Funk Railroad, Kaleo,…
Drew Holcomb
Drawing influence from Tom Petty and Bob Dylan, Drew Holcomb has found his place in today’s landscape of singer/songwriter Americana. He and his band have developed their sound through extensive touri…
Drop the Floor
Drop The Floor officially formed in 2012, brought together by a shared love of traditional, particularly Irish traditional music. The roots of the group are the North West’s vibrant traditional sessio…
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys formed in 1996 in Boston, MA. The band was originally just a bunch of friends looking to play music for fun. We started playing in the basement of a friend’s barbershop and our goal w…
Drywood Folk Duo
Drywood play an eclectic mix of traditional and original folk music with a touch of Americana thrown in for good measure. What particularly comes across in their performance is the warmth and passion …
Du Bellows
Du Bellows play soulful psychedelic progressive rockn’roll/blues music ranging from acoustic subtlety to a fully fuzzed loudness. The band have grown a following through notable support slots with The…
Dubi Dolczek
Dubi Dolczek and his band bring you fifties sci-fi and mangrove swamp music, or in the words of Dubi himself: “A couple of Aeons ago I was just plain old Graeme Smith, Sure, I had already explored …
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Duck Baker Trio
Reading
When the well-known American fingerstyle guitarist Duck Baker moved to London in 2005, Steve Beresford put him touch with two younger players who turned out to be ideal trio-mates, Alex Ward and Joe W…
Duck Soup
Brighton
As musician Paul Burgess once said in a review, there´s eclectic – and then there´s Duck Soup. The band features Dan Quinn (melodeons and vocals), Ian Kearey (dobro, bass, mandolin, etc) and Adam Bush…
Dudu Kouaté
Berlin
Born in Senegal in 1963 into a family of griots, known for being the conservators of the African cultural and musical tradition. After his humanistic studies in his country he left for Europe. Dudu cu…
Duke Garwood
“Duke Garwood is a bluesman´s blueman.. impressively soulful“ The Guardian In the face of an apocalypse, we all need a safe house. A place for sanctuary; not to hide, but to claim for our own. On h…
Duke Special
By nature Duke Special is a curious person. He is curious about theatre, books, music, poetry, art, love, life, redemption, death, 78RPM records and most recently, gardening! All of this is evidenced …
Dulcidelic
Hammered dulcimer, Harmonium, Accordion, Lyre, Mountain dulcimer, Music technology, Tongue drum
Dulwich Transatlantic Session
London
The intention behind this super-group is to show how English Scottish and Irish tunes and songs travelled with emigrants to North America and how they changed. The musicians are: -Pete Cooper, one o…
Dunajska Kapelye
London
The sweetest Gypsy violin in London! Piotr Jordan (violin) joined by Zac Gvirtzman (accordion/clarinet) and Paul Moylan (double bass), playing folk music from the Balkans, the Gypsy diaspora and be…
Duncan Chisholm
Duncan Chisholm effortlessly evokes a background steeped in the rich highland music tradition through his rich, varied compositions. Having been described as ‘one of the most authentic interpreters…
Duncan Eagles
Described by BBC Radio as a “rising star of British Jazz” Duncan is attracting attention for his distinctive sound and improvising from all over the world. His latest album Citizen marked his place on…
Duncan McFarlane
´Classy English Folk Guitar, eminently listenable vocals and great songs, both traditional and contemporary´ (Mike Raven) ´Duncan´s a punchy guitarist in the ´English folk´ style and offers a set ab…
duo
Oxford
Ben Bruant and Will Cashel are duo – playing ‘songs you know in ways you probably don’t’ in a style fusing flamenco, pop and classical music. Ben was born in Le Havre in France and studied at the N…
Duo Anitpodes
The Duo Antipodes perform works by Boccherini, Piazzolla, De Falla, Granados and Manus Noble himself. “Manus Noble… created warmth and intimacy… a wonderful shimmering texture almost like light pla…
Duo Labrax
London
Duo Labrax perform modal music, old and new from all over the Mediterranean; Medieval Spain and Italy, Ottoman Greece and Turkey as well as from the Arab world.
Duo Tanghe Coudroy
One guitar. One accordion. Two night owls who´ll quickly draw you up on to the dancefloor. Martin Coudroy and Aurélien Tanghe are beautiful musicians from France who play with oodles of energy, finess…
Duotone
Oxford/London
DUOTONE is the alias of songwriter Barney Morse-Brown, cellist with multi-platinum artist Birdy and BBC Folk Award winners the Imagined Village, Chris Wood, Eliza Carthy and Jackie Oates. As well as …
Dusk Brothers
Bristol
Dusk Brothers are a ´dark swamp blues´ two-man-band from Bristol, UK. Since 2015 brothers Graeme and Iain (E) Moncrieff have, in every sense, been building their unusual and distinctively dark, bl…
Dusky Sunday
Dusky Sunday is an indie-folk duo comprising of established musicians Fern Teather and Sam Thurlow. Drawing comparisons to Slow Club, Gabrielle Aplin, and Fleetwood Mac, Dusky Sunday stands out from s…
