Folk Bands and Artists
Brendan Monaghan
Bangor
County Down singer songwriter Brendan Monaghan performs his material at home and in many different countries around the world. Monaghan has shared the same bill as many top artists and has written mat…
Brendan Power
He is an amazing harmonica player from New Zealand. Voted part of the best duo with Tim Edey at the RTE Folk Awards 2012.
Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay
Austin, Texas
Fine songsters, guitarists & all round bluegrass’y musicians, they are very unique & highly acclaimed in the music capital of USA.
Brian Finnegan
Brian is a celebrated composer, collaborator and producer and has toured and recorded with artistes as diverse as KAN, Cara Dillon, Boris Grebenshikov, Anoushka Shankar, Bebel Gilberto and most recent…
Brian Houston
Belfast
“Bristling with hope joy love and fabulous songs” Mojo “It was thirty seconds in when I realized what a really special piece of music this was. One of Britain’s great song writers!” Bob Harris, BBC…
Brian Hughes
Brian Hughes began playing traditional Irish music at a very young age, in his home town of Athy Co Kildare. By the age of 14 yrs, Brian had made TV appearances and had won County, Provisional, and Al…
Brian Kellock & Konrad Wiszniewski
Two generations of Scottish jazz brilliance play masterly, swinging piano and soulfully expressive saxophone, refreshing classics from the standards repertoire.
Brian Kelly
London continues to nurture fine exponents of the banjo: Brian Kelly is one of the latest in a long line that includes Mick O´Connor, John Carty and Bernie Conneely (formerly of The London Lasses). Li…
www.brian-kelly.comBrian Kennedy
Brian Kennedy survived a childhood on the infamous Falls Road, West Belfast at the height of its hellish history against all the odds to carve an extraordinary career in Music. In his own words he sa…
Brian McGrath
One of the rare young pianists whose sound reflects the 1920s piano styles, Brian was born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, 1965. Although his parents did not play music, they owned a pub that feat…
Brian Molley
Glasgow
Brian Molley is a saxophonist and composer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He has led his group Brian Molley Quartet to a number of notable successes, including selection for the prestigious Made in Scotl…
Brian Molley
Glasgow
A widely experienced saxophonist and flautist, Brian Molley released his quartet’s first album, Clock, in 2013 and was immediately noted as ‘One to Watch’ by Jazzwise. With a saxophone style that can …
Brian Molley & Tom Gibbs
Glasgow
When saxophonist Brian Molley released his first album, Clock, in 2013 it was a work that the Glasgow-based musician had been slowly and quietly building up to for a decade or more - and press and med…
Brian Peters
Derbyshire
Brian Peters is, according to the UK’s Living Tradition magazine “a top-notch singer and player, also one of the best-researched performers currently doing the rounds, and master of several crafts” wh…
Bric-a-Brac
Bella Gaffney - vocals, guitars and concertina Chris Elliott - vocals, fiddle, bouzouki and guitar Caitlin Jones - vocals, whistles, flutes, folk recorder Heather Sirrel - vocals, bass and guitar …
Brickwork Lizards
In just over 8 years together, Brickwork Lizards has built a reputation as one of the most formidable live acts on the Oxford scene and the festival circuit. The group’s fans range from the most commi…
Bríd Harper
Bríd Harper is regarded as one of the leading Irish traditional fiddle players of the last forty years. She grew up close to the east Donegal village of Castlefinn and started playing the fiddle a…
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson
Stockholm
Bridget Marsden & Leif Ottosson play thought-provoking contemporary Swedish folk music. They invite the listener into a musical world where original compositions are mixed with traditional material, m…
Bridget St John
Mention of the legendary Bridget St John often seems to induce a misty-eyed, faraway look; many a student room in the Sixties and Seventies would have echoed to her distinctive voice. Bridget’s imp…
Bridget Walker
London
A south London traditional singing stalwart who plays with her sister Kitty and co-organises Folk of the Round Table in Peckham.
Brierdene
Newcastle upon Tyne
Brierdene are a Newcastle-based group of young musicians who have grown up playing together, meeting at the Sage Gateshead in youth folk ensembles and then progressing into the EFDSS’s National Youth …
