Folk Bands and Artists

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Lúnasa is composed of Kevin Crawford (flutes, low whistles and tin whistles), Trevor Hutchinson (double bass), Ed Boyd (guitar), Seán Smyth (fiddle and low whistle) and Cillian Vallely (uilleann pipes…

Lunatraktors

What´s left when everything is taken away from us – our tools, technology and libraries, even our homes, communities and citizenship? What´s left is what we have learned by heart and we can do with ou…

Lunch Special Band

London

Bluegrass, roots, Appalachian, mountain and country music

Lux Harmonium

Totnes

Treading somewhere between the weird folk world of John Fahey or Glenn Jones and an altogether more outsider pop of Robert Wyatt; Lux Harmonium manage to take a menagerie of influences and make them s…

Luzmira Zerpa

London

Luzmira Zerpa is a versatile Venezuelan singer/songwriter based in UK who has performed internationally and toured extensively throughout Europe as a solo artist and with her band Family Atlantica. At…

Lydia Cole

Lydia Cole is an award-nominated songwriter and performer from New Zealand, now based in Berlin. In September she will perform for the first time in the UK on an independent tour, put together with th…

Lydia Lowndes-Northcott

New Zealand born Lydia Lowndes-Northcott began playing at age of 7, soon winning a scholarship to Wells Cathedral School, and later to the Royal Academy of Music in London. During her time there Lydia…

Lyla Foy

London

A multi-instrumentalist from London who writes and performs intimate, melodic pop music. Starting with humble kitchen recordings in 2013 she has gone on to release two EPs and two full length albums, …

Lynched

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Lyndon Morgans (Songdog)

Blackwood, Wales

Lyndon Morgans (Songdog) ‘Of Gods And Men’ is the first album from Welsh songwriter Lyndon Morgans to be released under his own name, having put out his previous 8 albums under the ‘Songdog’ identi…

www.songdog.co.uk

Lynne Hanson

Lynne Hanson´s brand of “porch music with a little red dirt” can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full-on thunderstorm of gritty Americana swamp. Lynne is a two-time Canadian Folk …

Lynne Hanson & The Good Intentions

Known for their hard-living style of music, mixing gritty ballads with driving roots-tinged guitar. Lynne Hanson’s deep bluesy croon is pure and full of fortitude, and she’s drawn comparisons to Lucin…

www.lynnehanson.com

Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner

Individually, and in combination with a variety of well-known singers and bands, Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner have both served long apprenticeships on the shop-floor of folk music. Lynne sang in a d…

www.lynneandpat.co.uk

LYR

LYR is a band comprised of author and current British poet laureate Simon Armitage, singer-songwriter Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist & producer Patrick Pearson.

L´chaim Kapelye

Manchester

L’chaim Kapelye is a 7-piece ensemble based in Manchester, who specialise in music from the Klezmer and Balkan tradition. Having started out as music students at the University of Manchester they deve…

L´Hijaz Car

M w S

M w S is a London based duo that was formed in Italy in 2013. Their musical influences are Soul, R&B, Nu Soul artists as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill mixed with contemporary neo-jazz artists as Tom Mis…

M.C. Hansen

Danish singer and guitar slinger M.C. HANSEN combines storytelling with acoustic folk music and contemporary country sounds. The sound of Scandinavia in American clothes – it’s Scandicana! Imagine B…

Ma Polaine

London

Maverick Magazine: "quite different to anything out there right now". R2 Magazine: “the songs are gorgeous”. Described as “like a young Billie Holiday gate-crashing a Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones…

MA.MOYO

Belinda Zhawi is an artist based in London, author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018) who experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. She heavily collaborates with musicians in the ev…

Maaike Siegerist

Maaike Siegerist is a Dutch jazz and ´dark folk´ artist with airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music. Her music is an unusual blend of classic jazz, Argentine folk and gothic influences; her voice has echo…

Maarja Nuut

Maayan Madar

wonderful classic indiepop and ’60s-tinged folk.

Mabel South

Fareham

Mabel South is a singer-songwriter who has been inspired by artists like KT Tunstall and Amy Macdonald. She combines folk, pop and country elements to create her own unique sound, with the occasional …

Mac Abbe et le Zombie Orchestra

Nicknamed MAZO, Mac Abbé et le Zombi Orchestra are a brilliantly unclassifiable band on the French scene, combining black humor with music that’s both clever and utterly jubilant, leaping from swing t…