Folk Bands and Artists
Matthew The Oxx
Brighton based Matthew the Oxx records for indie-folk label Wild Sound and has just released his third album ‘First Aid for the Drowning’. The album has recieved extensive radio airplay from, amongst …
matthewtheoxx.comMatthew W Charles
Philadelphia, PA
After counting the miles on his odometer, it is clear that Matthew William Charles is a legitimate punk troubadour. For Matt, each mile recorded becomes another opportunity to share an extensive and i…
Matthias Branschke
Matthias Branschke plays bagpipes with half closed fingering for 20 years. His groovy play is delicate and full of expression. He’s currently playing with T.K.P. (duo with the violinist Vivien Zell…
Matuki
Bristol
Matuki are a 10 piece Afrobeat/Afro-funk band based in Bristol - a city renowned for its multi-cultural dance music. Their debut gig on Glastonbury’s esteemed Glade Stage in 2015 showed the true exten…
Maureen Washington
Award winning jazz vocalist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Slipping easily from sassy to sexy within a single line of lyrics, at times echoing the haunting tones of Etta James and Carmen McR…
Mawkin
Mawkin have gained a name for themselves in the festival circuit as a hardworking live band playing at over 50 festivals in the past 4 years, last year supporting Show of Hands, Eliza Carthy and Shoog…
www.mawkin.co.ukMawkin:Causley
Those wicked Essex rascals, Mawkin, have joined forces with the honey-voiced Jim Causley to form one hell of a boy band!
www.mawkin.co.ukMax Baillie
Violinist and violist Max Baillie is one of the most versatile musicians in the UK and is in demand across an exciting spectrum of music and performance mediums including classical, improvisation, com…
Max Baillie & Sura Susso
Max Baillie and Sura Susso met in Senegal in 2005 where they became fast friends and have been playing together ever since. They perform a mix of Baroque dance music and West African bardic spirituals…
Max T. Barnes
Max T. Barnes is a hit writer who is the son of a hit writer. He wrote his first hit song at the age of 19, Vern Gosdin’s “Way Down Deep”, and he’s been topping the charts ever since. Writing “Let Go…
Max ZT
Brooklyn
Lauded as the “Jimi Hendrix of Hammered Dulcimer” by NPR, and “A Force of nature” Max ZT is an innovator of the instrument. Taking his roots from Irish and American folk music, Max has transplanted…
Maxwell Quartet
1st Prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, and hailed as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating” by The Scottish Herald, an…
May Erlewine
Many on this side of the Atlantic have been asking how it could be that it took them so long to discover May Erlewine. On her home patch she has become known as Michigan’s Songbird after releasing nin…
May Gibbs
May Gibbs is currently finishing an electronic album of dark folktales under the name ‘Mesadorm’- she’s a writer of beautiful piano based songs, a strikingly original songwriter possessed of a stunnin…
May Robson
London
May Robson is a singer/musician/artist currently studying at Central St Martins. Featuring finger-picked guitar, exquisite chord structures and an expansive melodic sense, she is building a collection…
Maya Isacowitz
Maya Isacowitz is a singer songwriter, originally from Kibbutz Maayan Baruch, Israel, with South African roots. She initially made a name for herself performing with her guitar, capturing the ears of …
Maya McCourt
Maya McCourt is an inventive and intuitive cellist and vocalist. Switching between elegant cello and swinging single-bass, Maya spans genres to play both solo and with a number of bands and singer-son…
Maya Youssef
Speaker, composer and virtuoso of the qanun: disseminating peace through the healing power of music. One day when she was nine years old, Maya was on her way to the music institute in her hometown…
Maya Youssef
The ‘Queen of the Qanun’ is an artist who crosses boundaries in music and culture. Born in Damascus, she came to the UK in 2012 and her performances at London’s Southbank, Womad, BBC Proms, Royal Albe…
Mayor & James
This popular, world-class duo bring a unique combination of Simon Mayor’s humour and virtuosity and Hilary James “honey dripping voice”… not to mention her enormous mandobass! But it’s probably the di…
Maz O´Connor
Maz O’Connor is one of the most exciting young voices in British folk, and is quickly establishing herself as a bold and compelling songwriter. Her new album The Longing Kind explores the tensions an…
Mazaika Duo
An intoxicating blend of Russian Folk and Gypsy songs, Hot Club Jazz,Tango, Gypsy fiddle and Balkan beats. Mazaika Duo consists of two highly talented, passionate and versatile musicians. Sarah Ha…
McCool Trad
Joe O´Connor is a traditional Irish fiddle player from County Tyrone. He is a stalwart on the Irish traditional music scene, who has performed with musicians on many albums both in Ireland and in the …