Folk Bands and Artists
Josh Spear
Surrey
Composer Josh Spear is a member of the Bastard Assignments group and his music has been performed at Nonclassical, 840, and Tete-a-Tete opera festival.
Joshua Burnell
York
Joshua Burnell & Band are a York based folk-rock act. The music combines traditional folk music with the progressive rock. Photo by Elly Lucas
Joshua Burnside
‘Rumbling, brooding, powerful, magnetic’ - The Irish Times ‘There’s an indefinable quality and charm to Joshua Burnside’s debut’ - The Sunday Times ‘It makes you glad to have a pair of working e…
Joshua Cook
Raised in the Deep South and on the Great Plains, songwriter-vocalist-guitarist Joshua Cook emerged as a solo artist in San Francisco´s psych-rock scene with blues-driven debut singles “All Bad Things…
Joshua Hedley
Nashville
Joshua Hedley.. ´Pound for pound, there´s no better unsigned artist working in Nashville today. A nuanced, heart-tugging fiddle ace – he was playing in bars before age 11 – Hedley has been the go-t…
Joshua K
Joshua K is an artist and songwriter influenced by alt-rock/ folk genres. He writes a melange of introspective songs that vary from a fragile, melancholic quiet to a louder, grungier call to be heard.…
Joshua Thew
Turn Me To Water is the debut LP from Joshua Thew. Written predominantly in Brooklyn New York. Combining soulful melancholic rnb and Jazz the record deals with loss and renewal of romantic lov…
Josie Duncan
Raised in the musical traditions of the Outer Hebrides, Josie Duncan has long been able to exercise a deep understanding of Scotland’s music with her softly strong vocals, enthralling listeners everyw…
Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente
2017 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Winners Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente have been described as ´a vocal/guitar duo like no other´. Coming from the Isle of Lewis (Josie) and from Spain (Pablo) it…
Josie Field
Nominated for 9 South African Music Awards over her career, it’s evident that singer songwriter Josie Field has no intention of slowing down. Having relocated to the United Kingdom, and already gained…
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…
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Double BBC Folk Award nominees Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker infuse ageless stories of love and loss with their exquisite command of many instruments. Whether interpreting words centuries old or s…
Josienne Clarke & Samantha Whates
London
Samantha Whates and Josienne Clarke met on the London acoustic music scene not far off a decade ago, forging a firm friendship from the off. Often invited to perform on the same bill, they began to si…
Joy Becker
Joy is a multifaceted musician – singer, songwriter and violinist - who is as at home performing her own music at festivals and venues, leading an orchestra or touring with bands. Classically trained …
JP Rameau
London
JP Rameau´s identity is clouded in mystery. This sometime house producer has rocked on Japanese airwaves, produced tropical bangers and used to be a member of death jazz party monsters Deathray Trebuc…
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JP Ruggieri
Nashville singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JP Ruggieri just released his debut EP (Waiting On You) in 2019. Before then he could be heard as a sideman working as a session musician and tour…
Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague is a singer storyteller and artist. She improvises with Cos Chapman to create images and atmospheres of yesteryear and contemporary London. From the new romantic to old brutalism. …
www.judecowanmontague.com
Jude Johnstone
Born in Bar Harbor, Maine, Jude Johnstone began writing songs at about age 8. At 18, she was “discovered” by Bruce Springsteen’s saxophonist, Clarence Clemons. After spending some time in New York a…
Judy Collins
Judy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism …
Julia Biel
Hailed by The Independent as ‘the best British vocalist to emerge in an age’, self-taught and award-winning singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist Julia Biel is blazing a trail on the British music…
Julia Fordham
Julia Fordham is a British singer-songwriter. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name “Jules Fordham“, as a backing singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde, before signing a re…
Julia Kozakova
Júlia Kozáková, is a world music singer currently at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies. As a child she sang Slovak traditional music and later discovered the beauty of Roma …
Julia Toaspern
Julia Toaspern spent the past years gigging around Europe and the East Coast, played in Cuba and recorded in NYC - but she feels at home in the Scottish highlands where she makes music, tends sheep, m…
Julia Turner
Bristol
Due for release in autumn 2016, Fifteen Times the Moon is a collection of original songs that explore the weather patterns of life, our fears, hopes and relationships with both ourselves and each othe…
Julian Brown
Berlin
Julian is a singer/songwriter based in Berlin. He presents his songs with a guitar, his voice and a loop pedal. His lyrics are about love and breakup. In addition to melancholy and thoughtful songs, h…
Julian Gaskell & His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Penryn’s premium post-ragtime, rembetika punk, swing polka klezmer blues trio. Travelling with an unfeasibly large selection of instruments including piano, accordions, violin, drums, bouzouki, bass, …
