Folk Bands and Artists
Quantum Penguin (Matt Woolley)
Shrewsbury
Matt Woolley is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter from Shropshire who plays under the name of Quantum Penguin. His love of storytelling through song blended with driving instrumentals means…
Quarterman
Quarterman is the name for the solo project of Man The Lifeboats’ lead singer and songwriter Richard James Quarterman. Hailing from the moorlands of West Yorkshire, Quarterman moved to London Town in …
Queen Cake
Queen Cake is the brain child of Sasha Theodora, Grace Daily and Dayna Pirso, a group focused on harmony singing in Jazz, Swing, Mountain tunes, Old Time and Gospel. Hailing from different areas of No…
Queen V
London
Queen V sculpts beautiful and powerful melodies around candid lyrics, creating songs that simply cannot be ignored. She shares the vegan message through both humour and sincerity, with one truth sh…
Queensbury Rules
Having spent three years serving their apprenticeship in the folk clubs of Britain, The Queensberry Rules first signified their arrival on the folk circuit with the release of their 2004 album – ‘Heri…
Queerfolk: Sophie Crawford and George Sansome
Sophie Crawford and George Sansome are the founders of Queer Folk – an organisation that researches queer music and champions LGBTQIA+ musicians. Since finding a wealth of LGBTQIA+ folk music in the a…
Quercus
Three unique musicians converge to create an evocative mixture of words and music, encompassing jazz, folk and traditional songs in contemporary settings. Saxophonist Iain Ballamy, and pianist Huw War…
Quest Ensemble
Collaborative Improvised Contemporary Piano Trio “Compositionally complex, inventive in technique and wonderfully ambiguous in tonality, this was a joy to behold“ - Jazzwise
www.questensemble.co.uk
Quicksilver
Birmingham
An absolute treat: some of the funniest songs ever written. Grant Baynham is one of the funniest songwriters ever to have put pen to paper. His side-splitting rhymes make Quicksilver an outstandingl…
Quiet Loner
QUIET LONER is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill. Quiet Loner sings songs about love and fear, life and death, despair and hope. On a live stage Hill is an understated yet powerful performer del…
Quilty
Quilty was formed in 1993 and is considered to be one of the foremost bands of the Irish folkmusic scene in Scandinavia. Over the last three decades they have performed a huge number of concerts in Sw…
Quimantú
London
Forty-seven years ago, Mauricio Venegas Astorga escaped the dictatorship in Chile and sought refuge in the United Kingdom. Today, his music and that of Quimantú have become home and roots for those wh…
Quinn Oulton
London
South London based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist & producer Quinn Oulton exhibits a raw sound, melding soaring vocals and tangled acoustic textures with abstract electronics. The sound is deeply uni…
R.W. Hedges
RW Hedges and Luca Nieri return with the launch of ‘The Hills Are Old Songs’, the follow up to 2018’s ‘The Hunters in the Snow’ collection. The album has a strong unifying theme, set in the American W…
Rachael Cohen
London
Saxophonist and composer Rachael Cohen is one of the brightest stars of her generation. Originally from the Shetland Islands, she won a scholarship in 2006 to study jazz at The Birmingham Conservatoir…
Rachael Dadd
Bristol
Rachael Dadd is originally from Bristol but we can consider her an international artist. A genre blend of folk, experimental and joyous pop, her unique voice and disarming lyrical world has long defin…
Rachael Jean Harris
Rachael Jean Harris carves a highly individual sound, blurring the lines between folk, jazz and indie, drawing from a love of adventurous writers such as PJ Harvey, Esperanza Spalding and Kate Bush an…
Rachael Mailer
Rachael Mailer is a queer singer songwriter based in South London. Her original music touches on themes of romance, unrequited love and identity and is guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings
Rachael McShane & The Cartographers
Rachael McShane is a singer, cellist, fiddle and viola player based in the North East of England. An original member of folk big band Bellowhead, Rachael toured internationally with them as well as ma…
Rachael Sage
A soulful vocalist and innovative multi-instrumentalist, award-winning singer/songwriter and producer Rachael Sage has earned a loyal international following for her dynamic piano playing, delicate gu…
Rachel Baiman
A fiddle/banjo player, singer, and songwriter based out of Nashville, TN. Specialising in Old Time, Bluegrass, Scottish, and Folk music, her interests are diverse and range from the oldest fiddle trad…
Rachel Carstairs
As a special guest we have Rachel Carstairs, one of Scotland’s most exciting young traditional singers/violinists. Once she finishes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland the world will be her oyster…
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