Folk Bands and Artists
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 War And Treaty
Albion, Michigan
With their eclectic fusion of gospel, Southern soul, country, and rock-and-roll The War and Treaty exude an infectious exuberance. The married duo harness an emotive humanity within their songs and…
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.
www.thewashboardresonators.comThe Water Chorus
The Water Chorus is a folk band from London. We spend half of our time collecting, arranging and playing music, and the other half trying to work out how to store a lot of instruments on a very small …
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 Waterboys
Led by the dynamic and brilliant Scottish guitarist/vocalist Mike Scott, The Waterboys has been a source of musical joy to a legion of die hard fans since the release of their self-titled album in 198…
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…
philliphenryandhannahmartin.co.ukThe 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
London
The Ways are a new folk duo based in East London inspired by 60s psychedelia, 90s pop and the eternal search. Sally is American, Ben is English, and they combine their heritage for a sound that is bot…
The Weaving / Meabh Begley Trio
Méabh Begley (accordion) and Owen Spafford (fiddle) are joined by Kyle Macaulay (guitar) for their 2024 UK tour. This trio brings together the rich musical traditions of three counties Kerry, Donegal …
The Weeping Willows
3 x CMAA ‘Golden Guitar’, Australian Folk Music and Music Victoria Award winners, The Weeping Willows (Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth) are a couple of old souls, steeped in Bluegrass traditio…
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 Whileaways
Three powerful forces in Irish roots music in their own right, Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce combine as The Whileaways. These three singers could all front their own projects, …
The Whileaways
GALWAY
The Whileaways are Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce, three accomplished singers who had each toured and recorded extensively. With over a dozen albums to their collective credit, and…
The Whistlebinkies
Glasgow
Formed in the late 1960s in Glasgow, Scotland, the band made a substantial contribution to the development of Scottish traditional music during the subsequent decades. They led the revival of the bell…
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 White Russian
The White Russian is the musical project of Suffolk born, London based singer songwriter Joseph Giffard Tutt. The White Russian was formed in west London and the band have performed alongside lumi…
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…
whitetopmountainband.tripod.comThe 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 Wilderness Yet
This new trio combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Independently, they have earned audiences’ esteem …
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 Wilsons
Billingham
It seems unbelievable, though inescapable, that 2008 marks 35 years since Tom, Chris and Steve made their first, tentative foray into harmony group singing. Even more incredible is that it’s almost 30…
The Windy City Weatherbirds
This band plays so well and presents itself so well that it is obvious that, despite their youth, they are well-versed in the traditions of their kind of jazz. As they struck up their first number sev…
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 Yellow Belly Stragglers
The Yellow Belly Stragglers are a three piece hokum band, playing original, upbeat and infectious tunes
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