The Way Down Wanderers

They’ve been spreading a somewhat infectious brand of joy on their travels across the USA with a camaraderie that’s rare and joie de vivre that is simply inspirational. Voted Chicago’s best Emerging A…

The Ways

The Ways

London

The Ways are a new folk duo based in East London inspired by 60s psychedelia, 90s pop and the eternal search. Sally is American, Ben is English, and they combine their heritage for a sound that is bot…

The Weaving

Méabh Begley (accordion) and Owen Spafford (fiddle) are joined by Kyle Macaulay (guitar) for their 2024 UK tour. This trio brings together the rich musical traditions of three counties Kerry, Donegal …

The Weeping Willows

3 x CMAA ‘Golden Guitar’, 2 x Australian Folk Music and Music Victoria Award winners, The Weeping Willows (Laura Coates and Andrew Wrigglesworth) are a couple of old souls, steeped in Bluegrass tradit…

The West African Blues Project

Drinking Moroccan mint tea in a London’s Moroccan café is not guaranteed to result in the creation and production of a world-class West African blues album, unless you happen to be Modou Touré and Ram…

The Where´s Spot Band

Chelmsford

An outstanding band

The Whileaways

Three powerful forces in Irish roots music in their own right, Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce combine as The Whileaways. These three singers could all front their own projects, …

The Whileaways

GALWAY

The Whileaways are Noelie McDonnell, Noriana Kennedy and Nicola Joyce, three accomplished singers who had each toured and recorded extensively. With over a dozen albums to their collective credit, and…

The Whistlebinkies

Glasgow

Formed in the late 1960s in Glasgow, Scotland, the band made a substantial contribution to the development of Scottish traditional music during the subsequent decades. They led the revival of the bell…

The White Buffalo

The stage/recording name of American musician, singer and songwriter Jake Smith, The White Buffalo has released five albums and three EPs since 2002 debut Hogtied Like a Rodeo. After the track Wrong w…

The White Russian

The White Russian is the musical project of Suffolk born, London based singer songwriter Joseph Giffard Tutt. The White Russian was formed in west London and the band have performed alongside lumi…

The Whitetop Mountain Band

The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from the highest mountains of Virginia. Whitetop, Virginia is an area rich in the old time music tradition, and this band has deep roots in mountain m…

The Wild East

The Wild East are a London band who play US Country music. Comprising some musicians who actually first played together at school in Leicestershire in the 1980s, the band features Charlie Knowles on v…

The Wilderness Yet

This new trio combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Independently, they have earned audiences’ esteem …

The Willows

Cambridge

The Willows are a dynamic folk band who have received great acclaim for their first two albums, including a live feature on Bob Harris’s BBC Radio 2 show. Formed in 2010 by husband and wife Cliff and …

The Wilsons

Billingham

It seems unbelievable, though inescapable, that 2008 marks 35 years since Tom, Chris and Steve made their first, tentative foray into harmony group singing. Even more incredible is that it’s almost 30…

The Windy City Weatherbirds

This band plays so well and presents itself so well that it is obvious that, despite their youth, they are well-versed in the traditions of their kind of jazz. As they struck up their first number sev…

The Winter Yards Band

the witchcraft and vagrancy act

The Woolfs (Rebecca & Laura Woolf)

London

Rebecca & Laura Woolf (the Woolfs): Laura and Rebecca bring together their contemporary musical influences with the traditional folk songs of their father Clive’s archives, bringing a new perspective …

The Woolverstones

Formed in late 2019, alternative folk duo The Woolverstones have swiftly made a name for themselves on the international folk circuit with their cinematic songwriting and rich vocal harmonies. Their d…

The Worm

Wrigglin all over the common ground between live music, lyricism African Music and Dance Music. The Worm are Festival, with a capital F, distilled...You can´t really critique that sort of thing - it´s…

The Wraiths

Born of duetted improvisations on a selection of texts from “A Bundle Of Ballads“, and having eventually settled on the most lucid of the many verses - classic, romantic and modern - that they subsequ…

The Wren Songbook

The Wurzels

Formed in 1966 by Adge Cutler, the Bard of Avonmouth, this bunch of haystack-headed, cider-soaked and dung-booted, not-quite-so-young Avonside lads play good-time traditional Zummerzet Scrumpy ´n´ Wes…

The Yellow Belly Stragglers

The Yellow Belly Stragglers are a three piece hokum band, playing original, upbeat and infectious tunes

The Yes Mess

“They practice a dark stem of alternative folk which is energetic and mysterious. It’s uplifting and real. Great lyrics, surreal images, dark and unique sounds.” – The Lantern Society “An enigmatic, …

The Young´uns

The Young’uns have proved themselves a unique proposition – writing and performing a cappella or subtly accompanied songs that tell it how it is alongside traditional songs from their native North-Eas…

The Zac Schulze Gang

Gillingham, UK

Formed in Gillingham (south-east UK) in 2020, The Zac Schulze Gang are an electrifying blues-rock trio built on the playing of front man Zac Schulze, joined by bassist Ant Greenwell and drummer Ben Sc…