The Rheingans Sisters

Sheffield

Nominated for ´Best Band´ at the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, The Rheingans Sisters are one of the most visionary acts on the British folk scene today. Creating playful, muscular and richly connec…

The Rhythm & Booze Project

The Rhythm and Booze Project features Felipe and Paul, a duo fusing live music and whisky through gigs, tasting events, and multimedia experiences. The project was born during a 2012 pilgrimage to …

The Rhythm and Booze Project

The Rhythm and Booze Project features Felipe and Paul, a duo fusing live music and whisky through gigs, tasting events, and multimedia experiences. The project first took shape during a 2012 pilgri…

The Rhythm Swing Quintet

The Rhythm Swing Quintet aim to take you through a journey of the sizzling sounds of swing, playing jazz standards, Latin rhythms and some original material – all under the umbrella of “gypsy jazz”. …

The Rigmarollers

London

The Rigmarollers play uplifting ragtime, jug band, vintage jazz, blues and old time. Classic and original songs come with harmonica, fiddle, guitars, mandolin and washboard. All driven along by swingi…

The Rin Tins

Bristol

Gypsy rockabilly licks, swing jazz rhythms and pounding oompa beats deeply melted onto dark folk tales.

The Rip Roaring Success

The hottest Western Swing Band East of El Paso featuring Wild Miss Lucille on double bass, Miss Jay tearing it up with some smokin’ hot fiddle and the token gent, the one and only Rusty on six strings…

The Rizz

London

Loud indie rockers

The Roamin´ Jasmine

Forged out of the lively street music scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the members of The Roamin’ Jasmine found one another busking under the swampy Louisiana sun, along the banks of the Mi…

The Roaring 20´s Irish Orchestra

The band’s first live performance, on Gala Night at Tradfest, Dublin in January 2018 was a roaring success. While the 20s era was covered very successfully by Frankie Gavin and De Danann with their 19…

The Rob Booth Band

The Rob Strong Band

He may be 76 years old this year but Rob Strong, as his Biography by Paul Holland suggests, is STILL GOING STRONG! The Derry native, with the sensational blues/soul voice, is celebrating an amazing 60…

The Rom Shanty Crew/Phil Ericson

The Rosellas

Previously knows as the Three Little Birds, The Rosellas are an a capella trio based in North London. Megan Bradbury, Mabel Hoskins and Sara-Lily Waite went to school together in Camden, and began si…

The Rosellys

The Rosellys are a five piece Americana band based in Bristol. Regular tours to America clearly influence their song writing and live performances with close comparisons made to artists such as Alison…

The Rough Island Band

The Scilly Isles

The Rough Island Band are a contemporary folk quartet playing original music inspired by the landscapes, people and stories of the Isles of Scilly- a tiny scrap of wind-carved rock, gorsey downland an…

The Roves

London

Guitar Pop / Jangle Pop

The Rubber Wellies

Bilbao/Dublin/Southampton

Original, entertaining and thought provoking, the Rubber Wellies (Ireland/Basque Country/England) are a travelling folk group like few others. With three albums under their belts and ten years of expe…

The Rude Mechanicals

London

Rude Mechanicals are a pan-Dimensional Creature manifesting itself in your reality as an Absurd Rock Band consisting of Miss Roberts and her symbiotic slaves.

The Rumblestrutters

The Rumblestrutters are an acoustic Hokum blues and jazz trio based on the West Wales coast, playing vintage stuff from the prohibition era on a mixture of mandolin, banjo, guitar, harmonica, jug and …

The Rumjacks

Sydney

Born of a desire to make music in general and Celtic-flavoured punk in particular, The Rumjacks are an entity rather askew, cast adrift of the mainstream and the industry as a whole, these five musica…

The Rusty Rovers

Traditional acoustic folk

The Rusty Tubs

Gloucester

From Gloucester to festival stages across the UK, The Rusty Tubs have earned a reputation as a sea shanty crew with serious vocal firepower and a mischievous streak. Rooted in traditional shanties and…

The Ruts DC

London

In December 2008 John “Segs” Jennings and Dave Ruffy returned to Ariwa Studios as Ruts D.C. to record some new tracks with Neil “Mad Professor” Fraser. The project, entitled Rhythm Collision Vol. 2, w…

The RX Shanty Men

Acapella Sea Shanty folk group based in Hastings, UK. There has been renaissance in Shanty singing and maritime music generally in recent years, Hastings in East Sussex has been at the forefront of th…

The Sadies

Memorably described as the Swiss Army knife of rock music, The Sadies do lots of things unbelievably well – sometimes in the space of the same song. An acid folk country punk Ennio Morricone influen…

The Sages 竹林七贤

London

An exciting new world music fusion project based in London that draws inspirations from different music elements throughout time and history. With the main focus on traditional East Asian music, the…

The Salts

Rest of the UK

The Salts are one of the most exciting and energetic concept bands around, performing original material alongside their own interpretations of traditional songs. The band feature five seasoned music…

The Sam Chase Trio

Stories, strings, and a voice like wrought iron… The Sam Chase Trio blends epic arrangements with hard-living poetry and a dash of rock and roll spirit. Sam is a natural storyteller, treating crowds t…

The Sandy Denny Project

Fotheringay MkII members Sally Barker (The Poozies, BBCTV´s “The Voice“) and guitarist PJ Wright (TradArrr, The Dylan Project) are joined by frequent Fairport Convention guest Anna Ryder, multi-instru…