Folk Bands and Artists

Femi Oriogun-Williams

Femi was awarded The English Folk Dance and Song Society’s Creative Bursary - now called The Alan James Creative Bursary and Residency Programme - for 2023. We’re excited to see the results of their work! Their album OK Galexa was originally a radio drama commissioned by Sound Art Radio in Devon and funded by Arts Council England about two AI voice assistants who survive the mass extinction of the human species. Femi also created a one off radio special for the Goethe Institut and Weimar Radio in which they entered into dialogue with cultural african-american heavyweights Nina Simone and James Baldwin, turning to their archival legacies to seek advice over questions of identity and belonging in and on the European continent. They have also composed original music for Jay Bernard’s theatre piece Joint, and also Crystals of this Social Substance, a 32 Channel sound piece exhibited at the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion. They are currently an Associate Lecturer of Audio production at Goldsmiths university.

Genre: Alt Folk,Contemporary folk