Folk Bands and Artists
Chris Foster
Somerset
Chris Foster is a master of his trade, recently described as “one of the finest singers and most thoughtful, inventive guitar accompanists of English folk songs”. He was at the forefront of the folk revival in the 1970s, when he was highly regarded as a serious, cutting-edge interpreter of traditional song. He made two fine albums for Topic Records and gigged extensively. In the early 2000s Chris re-emerged on to the UK folk scene and Colin Irwin wrote in fRoots magazine, “Chris Foster merits legend status, one of the very best in the second wave of the Brit folk revival, as important as Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan and Nic Jones in the way he modernised and invested traditional songs with inventive guitar arrangements and potent vocal delivery.”
Genre: English Folk
