Folk Bands and Artists
James Yorkston
2016 has been a busy year thus far for Fife songwriter James Yorkston, with two significant releases to his name: in January, Domino Records released Yorkston Thorne Khan’s ‘Everything Sacred’ and in …
Jamie Cruickshank
Bristol
Born and raised in Bristol, Jamie Cruickshank is a musician and songwriter. From fuzz guitars to the banjo and mandolin, his music is an experimentation on strings, heavily influenced by folk music fr…
Jamie Harrison
Jamie Harrison sings about the struck world and plays death-rattle guitar rags for mothers on the stairs. He has tinnitus of the heart-valves.
Jamie Smart
Jamie Smart started his musical career in the pubs of Hastings at the tender age of 18 before moving to Southampton to study Song Writing and Performance. His style has developed from the early days o…
Jamie Smith´s Mabon
Jamie Smith´s MABON are Wales´ finest purveyors of original InterCeltic music. As comfortable on a world music stage as in a folk setting, theirs is a music that travels beyond borders to explore the …
www.jamiesmithsmabon.comJamie Williams & the Roots Collective
Chelmsford Essex
Their strap line is “Bringing The Part To You“. Playing original music written by Jamie they are described as not being unlike Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Jamie has a voice that has similarities…
www.jwroots.co.uk
Jan Blake
As one of the leading storytellers, Jan Blake has been performing worldwide for over twenty-five years. Specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia, she has a well-earned reputation…
Jana Varga
London
Jana´s unique voice reminiscent of Joni Mitchell blends with music influenced by Sting, the 90’s and 70’s folk-rock greats. She takes you into her world of self-reflection, contemplating loss and gain…
Jane Allison
Bath
Janes music is Haunting and pretty Americana folk, laced with a melancholic darkness. With her own folky blend of Americana, Jane´s well crafted, catchy song are infectious and seductive, laced with…
Jane Gilbert
Brighton
Jane grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. She began her musical career singing for well known local jazz/soul and hip hop groups. She would often sneak into clubs to perform alongside well known Edinburgh …
Jane Siberry
Jane Siberry is a pure, prolific, Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, musician, record producer, poet and painter. She is renowned for her hauntingly beautiful music that has included such songs as …
Jane Taylor
BBC Radio 2 presenters Johnnie Walker and Bob Harris are real fans. She’s opened for Jools Holland, recorded with Massive Attack guitarist Angelo Bruschini and her album ‘Compass’ won ‘BEST Singer Son…
Jane Ward
Jane Ward has been playing accordion for 50 years. She performed extensively around Europe as lead player in Jenny’s Accordionists, and played in Scottish, German and Polish bands before agreeing to p…
Janet Devlin
Northern Irish singer-songwriter Janet Devlin grew up outside the village of Gortin in County Tyrone, the only girl and youngest of four in her family. She thrived on a diet of watching Kerrang! TV an…
Janet Dowd
Janet Dowd hails from Co.Armagh in Northern Ireland and has been singing and performing for over 20 years with various bands both in Ireland and England. She has been involved in a wide range of musi…
Janet Giraudo
Janet Giraudo now lives in France, her French experience adds more interesting layers to The Two Sister’s collaborative works. Hilary James and Janet Giraudo have recorded their debut album Songs & Ch…
Janet Harbison
Born in Dublin in 1955 into a world of two music genres: traditional Irish and classical art music. At Trinity College Dublin, the Dublin College of Music and Cork University, she studied performance…
Janet Robin
USA
Music audiences around the world have seen Janet Robin’s incredible guitar work as a former touring member of Lindsey Buckingham’s Band (from Fleetwood Mac), Meredith Brooks, and Air Supply. Janet…
Janice Burns & Jon Doran
Janice Burns & Jon Doran are a folk duo based in the North-East of England who formed in 2017 after discovering their shared love for traditional song. Their compelling storytelling comes alive throug…
Jarlath Henderson
Jarlath, from Dungannon, County Tyrone, has been playing the Uilleann pipes since he was 10 years old. He learned to play the pipes from Armagh Pipers Club teachers Brian Vallely, Mark Donnelly, Tiarn…
Jarlath Henderson Trio
Two of the fieriest talents in contemporary Celtic piping, Scotland’s Ross Ainslie and Tyrone-born Jarlath Henderson first met back in 2003 at the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh – the same …
Jaron Freeman Fox
Bred in the mountains of Canada’s rural north-west, Jaron Freeman-Fox redefines what the violin is capable of, and gives you no choice but to take his mutant species of music on it’s own terms. Havin…
Jarrod Dickenson
Tall hats and even taller tales are woven into the fabric of The Lone Star State, and singer-songwriter, Jarrod Dickenson can spin a yarn with the best of them. Storytelling is something of a Texas…
Jasmine Kennedy
Batley
Heartfelt songs combining everyday observations and bittersweet insight from Batley´s answer to Tracy Chapman.
Jasmine Rodgers
Alternative folk/alternative rock Jasmine Rodgers is a singer-songwiter from London with a Japanese poet mother and a Middlesborough rock singer dad. Her first foray into music (apart from singing Fle…
