Folk Bands and Artists
Rihab Azar
London
Rihab Azar, Syrian Oud player and teacher, is one of the few known professional Arab women oudists. Her father, luthier Samir Azar taught her the oud when she was only 7 years old. As a child, Riha…
Rihab Azar
London
Aga Khan Music Award finalist (2025) Rihab Azar is one of the few women oud players/composers taking the oud to new expressive, daring and unconventional horizons. She was the first woman oudist to pl…
Rik van den Bosch
Rik writes, sings, and plays his own songs on his acoustic guitar, drawing from a wide influence of styles: original folk and blues sounds from way back, sixties’ rock ’n’ roll grooves, and up-to-the-…
Rik Warren
Unique, thought-provoking and brilliantly sophisticated sound.
www.soundcloud.com/rik-warren
Rik Warwick
Rik is a polyphonic guitar maestro. His classical guitar sets are always a joy to behold, ripe with bewildering and delight inducing complexity.
Riley Baugus
Riley Baugus represents the very best of old time American banjo and song. His powerful singing voice and his expert musicianship place him squarely in the next generation of the quality American root…
www.rileybaugusbanjos.com
Riley Catherall
Melbourne
Riley Catherall is a Singer-Songwriter based in Melbourne whose graceful trajectory into the Australian Alt-Country Music world has not gone unnoticed. Riley has built a credible status as a one of th…
www.rileycatherall.comRiley Pearce
Perth, Australia
Riley Pearce is a 25-year old alk-folk artist from Australia. His breakout single ´Brave´ has hit over 10 million streams on Spotify.
Ringlefinch
A timeless casserole of folk, indie and swing, Ringlefinch is a hearty and nourishing London-based dish that can be enjoyed at any time of year. Serves 6.
Ríoghnach Connolly
Singer, Flautist, Lyricist & Musical Activist. Current Projects: The Breath - HoneyFeet - AfroCelt Sound System - Band of Burns.
Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet
Still residing as BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year, Ríoghnach Connolly’s taste for musical adventure is eclectic. Along with her companion players, as Honeyfeet, they collectively drive a broad ter…
Riot Jazz
Riot Jazz gives you the horn The club nights! The festivals! The 9-barrelled Balkan-to-Brooklyn brass-boosted bounce, fronted by Chunky!
Riotous Brothers
Epsom
Classics, favourites and obscurities from the 60´s and 70´s played on acoustic instruments. No backing tracks!
Rita Bliss
Austin, Texas
ita Bliss is a folk musician from Rochester, New York and is now based in Austin, Texas. Though a Rust Belt native, Rita’s melodies are rooted in familiar old-time banjo sounds that evoke travels alon…
Rita Hosking
“In scorching form” (UK Telegraph), Northern California’s own Rita Hosking sings of forest fires, culture clash, demolition derbies, the working class and hope. From major CA music festivals to Bob Ha…
River Child
River Child is a solo singer-songwriter who specialises in classy, soulful indie/folk. With an off kilter, rare and distinctive voice pitching in somewhere between Bob Dylan and Alex Turner. “For som…
River Wild
London
Ffion is a singer songwriter from West Wales, soon to release her debut album as River Wild that draws inspiration from Welsh and Spanish folk music with hints of psychedelic rock. Interweaving her po…
RM Hubbert
RM Hubbert is a guitarist and (sometimes) singer from Scotland. He writes music about love, death, friendship, mental illness and occasionally a dog called D Bone. It´s not as depressing as the previo…
rmhubbert.comRoachford
London
Andrew Roachford is a British singer-songwriter. His hits include Cuddly Toy, This Generation and Only To Be With You.
Road Not Taken
Playing their unique brand of melancholy songs and tunes, Road Not Taken are starting to make big waves on the UK folk scene. From humble beginnings in 2014 the band has been on a rapid rise with a de…
Roary Skaista
Oxford
Roary Skaista is an Oxford-based folk musician, performing traditional folk songs as well as their own material on the themes of love, nature and diversity. Both in their singing and in their guitar …
Rob Chaney
Robert Chaney is an American performing artist, heir to the songwriting tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, and Judee Sill. Cracked Picture Frames is his highly anticipated ten-track debut, …
www.robertchaney.net
Rob Clamp
Southampton
Rob Clamp won the ‘Purbeck Rising’ award at the Purbeck Valley Folk Festival 2022. He is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Southampton.
Rob Corcoran
London
Rob Corcoran is a London based Irish singer songwriter with superb craft and a big heart. His powerful songs are decorated with perfectly detailed kitchen sink observations, steeped in the influence o…
Rob Corcoran and the Necessary Evils
Dublin
Rob Corcoran and the Necessary Evils is a coming-together of Corcoran’s ‘heartfelt’ songs energised and enriched by his alt-country super-group, The Necessary Evils, whose members include Lyle Zimmerm…
Rob Godfrey
Cambridge
Cambridge born Rob Godfrey is a 21-year-old Brighton-based singer-songwriter. His unique sound comes as an amalgamation of folk, jazz, soul and pop, combined with a slightly bitter and twisted outlook…
