The Urban Voodoo Machine

London

We know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: “Why should I care about The Urban Voodoo Machine? They’ve been around for ages, haven’t they? Aren’t they a novelty band who wears funny make-up? Don’t …

The Vagaband

Norfolk

The Vagaband are an 8-piece based in Norfolk, UK. Among the instruments they play are fiddle, mandolin, pedal-steel guitar, clarinet, flügelhorn, banjo, squeezebox and piano. They play original song-b…

The Vanguards

London

The Vanguards are a five-piece traditional bluegrass band, mostly based in South London. They take their musical inspiration from the originators of bluegrass music. Instrumentally, they seek to creat…

The Verklempt Family

London

Featuring members of Dan Raza & The Shrouds, Troubadour Rose, and The Hallelujah Trails the newly formed Verklempt Family promise a high quality roots stew! More details to be announced... The Verk…

The Vitality Five

Formed in 2015 and initially developing out of a series of informal workshop sessions in South London, the Vitality Five are an all-star quintet dedicated to performing and recording authentic 1920s s…

The Vitality Three

The Vitality Three is dedicated to performing and recording authentic 1920s jazz in the original “piano trio” format. This often-neglected repertoire ranges from Scott Joplin’s rags and Jelly Roll Mor…

The Voice Energy Project

Bethnal Green

Choir based in Bethnal Green

The VoodooVendors

London

The VoodooVendors are a hot & heavy, stamp-your-feet-and-dance,swampy blues duo. They have toured with the likes of Bob Geldof and Lonnie Donegan. Their reputation as an original and explosive live…

The Wagon Tales

The Wagon Tales - hot picking UK based Bluegrass and Americana band - with a cast of musicians that reads more like a Jules Holland show than an Old Opry! But boy, these guys can pick and sing!  

The Wangford Bass Combo

Get Down into the Bassment with the Wangford Bass Combo! The Bass Combo is an experimental exploration of the reverberant lower depths of Country music. What better way of navigating the dark underb…

The Washboard Resonators

The Washboard Resonators: This duo of guitar, banjo and washboard play footstomping blues, ragtime, swing and folk like it was on the street corners of America in the 1920s, 30s & 40s.

The Water Tower Bucket Boys

The Water Tower Bucket Boys, traditional musicians from Portland, Oregon, render a fusion of bluegrass, old time, and country music in an honest and authentic style. You can enjoy traditional sound on…

The Watershed Band

2015 sees Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, winners of the 2014 BBC Folk Award for Best Duo, embarking on an exciting new project. They plan on recording their new album, Watershed, with an extended li…

The Way Down Wanderers

They’ve been spreading a somewhat infectious brand of joy on their travels across the USA with a camaraderie that’s rare and joie de vivre that is simply inspirational. Voted Chicago’s best Emerging A…

The Ways

The West African Blues Project

Drinking Moroccan mint tea in a London’s Moroccan café is not guaranteed to result in the creation and production of a world-class West African blues album, unless you happen to be Modou Touré and Ram…

The Where´s Spot Band

Chelmsford

An outstanding band

The White Buffalo

The stage/recording name of American musician, singer and songwriter Jake Smith, The White Buffalo has released five albums and three EPs since 2002 debut Hogtied Like a Rodeo. After the track Wrong w…

The Whitetop Mountain Band

The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from the highest mountains of Virginia. Whitetop, Virginia is an area rich in the old time music tradition, and this band has deep roots in mountain m…

The Wild East

The Wild East are a London band who play US Country music. Comprising some musicians who actually first played together at school in Leicestershire in the 1980s, the band features Charlie Knowles on v…

The Willows

Cambridge

The Willows are a dynamic folk band who have received great acclaim for their first two albums, including a live feature on Bob Harris’s BBC Radio 2 show. Formed in 2010 by husband and wife Cliff and …

The Worm

Wrigglin all over the common ground between live music, lyricism African Music and Dance Music. The Worm are Festival, with a capital F, distilled...You can´t really critique that sort of thing - it´s…

The Wraiths

Born of duetted improvisations on a selection of texts from “A Bundle Of Ballads“, and having eventually settled on the most lucid of the many verses - classic, romantic and modern - that they subsequ…

The Wurzels

Formed in 1966 by Adge Cutler, the Bard of Avonmouth, this bunch of haystack-headed, cider-soaked and dung-booted, not-quite-so-young Avonside lads play good-time traditional Zummerzet Scrumpy ´n´ Wes…

The Yes Mess

“They practice a dark stem of alternative folk which is energetic and mysterious. It’s uplifting and real. Great lyrics, surreal images, dark and unique sounds.” – The Lantern Society “An enigmatic, …

The Young´uns

The Young’uns have proved themselves a unique proposition – writing and performing a cappella or subtly accompanied songs that tell it how it is alongside traditional songs from their native North-Eas…

Thea Gilmore

Since releasing her debut as a teenager nearly 20 years ago, the Oxfordshire-raised, Cheshire-based singer and songwriter Thea Gilmore has gained global acclaim for making music not only of extraordin…

thelightshines

thelightshines are ten hands bringing you shimmering jangles, sunshine harmonies, guitars, sitars and half-remembered memories, with influences taken from west coast pop, the paisley underground scene…