Irish Folk Rock from Germany.
https://tirnan.org
Wandering musician, sedentary composer. String-plucker, key-tickler, synth-botherer. Also one-half of GreenMatthews and one-third of The Warleggan Village Band.
linktr.ee/SeaGreenMusic
linktr.ee/GreenMatthews
linktr.ee/WarlegganVillageBand
The national organisation for folk music, song and dance in England. Based at Cecil Sharp House
Tall, curly, silly, sometimes musical. Currently Head of Product at Which?, freelance product coach and somehow also a trainer for Mind the Product. Did time at GDS, DIT, ITV, MTV, BBC. Helping art meet massive, and to get stories told.
Acoustic folk and alternative country band from Helsinki, Finland.
We're all about music 🎼🎶
https://linktr.ee/blackriverghost
Music of quality. Independent to the bone. Est. 2004.
coastroadrecords.com
I am Vince Sanchez, Record Producer, Label owner and Music Promotion company, working primarily with Americana, Blues and Jazz artists.
Produced Roots Music Report #1 Americana/Country album 2024.
Main studio in California with a mix room in Italy.
Queen of the Whirl! Trad/prog singer, violinist, writer & stage/film composer, available for radio/TV presenting/arts curation. Pres. EFDSS. Feminist. LGBTQ+ ally.
A new folk station based in UK and Ireland. Check us out on www.folkfridayradio.com
Editor-at-large, the Lead; editorial director 89up; Little Atoms; Paul Foot Award; What Fresh Hell? Dance 10, looks 3
A week-long annual folk festival, held in August (31 Jul - 7 Aug 2026), featuring concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, late-night dancing, sessions & more!
EarlyMusicNews.Org's mission is to help popularize and disseminate news of the "Early Music"/HIP (Historically Informed Performance) genre on an international scale.
An eclectic mix of music on a beautiful site just outside Ely. "As good a small festival as you can find anywhere in the country" - Rock'n'Reel
Professional Musician. Irish, Historical & Electric Harps, Viola da Gamba.
JayMichaelsHarp.com
Former president of The Historical Harp Society U.S. Also a member of The Historical Harp Society of Ireland,Viola da Gamba Society & Early Music America.
Music for the viola da gamba - acoustic & electric. Runner, swimmer, mother + sometime composer. Sydney, Australia, but performing across the globe. Both groups founded by me, Jenny Eriksson.
Links - https://linktr.ee/TheMaraisProjectElysianFields
Retired teacher. Author of educational books. Senior Examiner. Music promoter. Musician. Award winning photographer. Review writer. Seen Taylor Swift 11 times & photographed every one. https://nickbarber.zenfolio.com
The longest running storytelling festival in England. We rejoice in traditional oral storytelling for all ages, which we combine with fabulous folk music.
Festival takes place at Hopton Court, Cleobury Mortimer.
www.festivalatthedge.org
Sharing music and dance, esp early, locally and elsewhere. Performances, recordings, news.
Relocated from 🐦.
(Cover image: St Mary’s Parish Church, SW, Nr Cambridge, UK. ©️Peter Riding)
folkie, weirdo, Morris dancer
🚀 Co-owner Before Festival Sun Festival
💪 Manager: Natalia Sisik Ola Szkolda Julia Kostera
🤝 Wrzucam tutaj ciekawostki I fakty ze świata 😇
Na naszych festiwalach zagrali m in Oki, Quebonafide, Kuban, Bedoes
#SocialMedia | #Events #Music
Writer for UK nationals, trade mag editor, marketing and comms person, country singer, time-waster, stage mom.
Folk-rock band. Partially trad, partially original. Inclined to be a little bit loud. Shirts mostly paisley.
https://greendiesel.bandcamp.com/
Folk Rock Band. Highly praised for their for their beautiful vocals, honest lyrics and catchy melodies. Their music draws inspiration from the wider folk, rock and blues movements of the 60s and 70s with na 21st Century twist. www.juliejuly.co.uk
Scottish harper & composer plays in The Cathal McConnell Trio, The Whistlebinkies & solo. New CD, Eadarainn a' Chruit : Between Us the Harp out 5th September. www.karenmarshalsay.com
10th - 12th April 2025 - the new festival, following in the footsteps of Folk Weekend Oxford and the original Oxford Folk Festival. The city of dreaming spires is filled with the sounds and sights of folk music and dance in Spring!
Four hours of the best in new and traditional folk, Americana, Celtic & more--every Sunday from 5-9 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Radio. Frequency guides, streams & playlists at simplyfolk.org!
A Molly dance group from the fens!
https://linktr.ee/PigDykeMolly
Annual folk festival held on the 2nd Bank Holiday in May, in the port town of Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Traditional flute player, music leader and teacher based in Edinburgh, I run flutefling.scot with others to celebrate the revival of the flute in Scottish traditional music. Tradwinds are my regular workshops in Edinburgh. www.gordon-turnbull.net
Traditional Folk music from Yorkshire!
https://bryonyandalice.com
Morris Jig side based in Somerset but with members from all over!
Sometimes seen in winter as #SomersetHunkyPunks 👹
21st century morris dancing. Probably shenanigans. Founded 2009.
The oldest Morris revival side in the country still very active, formed in 1911.
Folk Musician
Plays with : Tin Giants : The Boxwood Chessmen : Melody Coles : Causton and Walker : Fensong : 1/4Folk : FolkHouse : Biggles and the Dance Pilots
Multi award winning comedian and musician. So there! Member of @theyounguns
Human, dancer, musician, writer, singer, scientist, spaniel owner, babywearing consultant, PTA mum. Views my own and liable to change in response to new evidence.
Fiddle player, author, tarboater.
Salford rugby league fan, very average chess player, grower of vegetables.
Gigs, shop, more info at,
http://www.tomkitching.co.uk
UK based musician and music educationalist. I’m the current artistic director of the National Youth Folk Ensemble. I play with Blowzabella, Narthen, Token Women and the Old Swan Band etc. I run workshops for instrument ensembles, vocal harmonies, bal dance
Cumbrian cultural historian, folkie and writer. Here for intelligent conversation, Romanticism, social history of long nineteenth century, dialect, folklore… and cats, of course. https://independent.academia.edu/SueAllan1
Stuart Green is Presenter of ‘The Folk Club’ on Folk Music Notebook, Burwell Radio and West Norfolk Radio - playing the best in Folk, Roots and Acoustic Music.
Living with my partner in Shropshire, working for local BBC radio and presenting my own folk programme on Mixcloud. Enjoying my unruly garden and equally unruly cats while trying to achieve perfect 5* for our Airbnb!
Musician, singer, songwriter and occasional novelist from the County of Durham in North East England.
https://linktr.ee/rachaelmcshane
I guess my short CV is: Albums, scores, producer, DJ, booker prize judge 2024, Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award, 9 hon. doctorates, patron PRS foundation, 24 awards and a CBE
We're an acoustic five-piece band from England and France.
We play traditional tunes, and our own compositions, with driving grooves that make you want to dance.
"Equal proportions of cerebral and visceral pleasure. Seriously recommended."
David Kidman
The longest surviving Albion Band lineup in history. Celebrating 25 years of Albion Christmas tours. Maybe it’s the 50 weeks a year holiday we get that’s helped us last so long.
The Broadside Folk Club is a friendly weekly sing around session that meets every Wednesday at the Golden Eagle Pub, 1 Delamere Road, Southsea, PO4 0JA
Dad | Rochdale Labour & Co-op Cllr in Littleborough | MP Chief of Staff | music and cultural strategist | Chair Rochdale Co-op Party | Vice Chair Rochdale CLP | Greater Manchester Music Commission | serial Trustee
Birmingham Based 5 (ish) Piece Folk Dance Band
www.theceilidhband.co.uk
A friendly #Morris dance team from Shrewsbury, England. We’re fun and follow positive, hopeful people. 👉No DMs or Llamas please👈 (well, maybe Llamas) 😊 Also still at the other place. Posts by Graydon. #Veteran #Nurse. shrewsburymorris.co.uk
Ex Fleet St Journalist, Folk musician + Lakeman patriach. KERNOW !!
A musical evolution of The Lost Words & The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris; featuring Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter & Jim Molyneux
www.thelostwords.org/spell-songs
Interested in Sea Shanties and Folk Music, regular steward at Harwich International Shanty Festival, retired, yachtsman, campervanner and motorcyclist (also have richardjbanner.bsky.social where I follow people who are angry about Brexit)
Traditional folk band based in Oxfordshire, England. Delighting folk club, concert and festival audiences for over 30 years.
https://www.magpielane.co.uk/
🎶 Vocalist, Musician, Songwriter & Recording Artist 🇬🇧 Sheffield, UK. Represented by SQP Live.
A mixed Cotswold Morris Dancing side practicing Tuesdays at Stroud Old Town Hall, come and join us!
https://www.miserdenmorris.com/
Ebor Morris are a friendly Morris dancing team from York, North Yorkshire. We’re a very social group, meet weekly, and visit interesting places to perform traditional morris and longsword dances. We’re always looking for new members. www.ebormorris.org.uk
I play mandolin family instruments in sessions for fun. Primarily mandola, sometimes cittern, maybe mandolin.
Systems engineer, granddad, atheist, retired.
The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
Some time folk singer. Ex Data Orchard CIC. Now freelance data consultant.
LibDem Herefordshire and Hereford City Councillor for College Ward (promoted by Sam Potts on behalf of the Liberal Democrats all at 54 St Owen St Hereford HR12PU)
Oysterband on Bluesky. The truth! And more! Voiced (usually) by Ian Telfer.
Folk music marketer/booking agent/programmer/writer. Runs a newsletter called @thefolkforecast.bsky.social.
Website - lucyshields.com
Comedy writing credits - https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucy-shields/
Monthly newsletter featuring online gigs and the latest news in UK folk music. Edited by @lucyrshields.bsky.social
Aussie, now Yorkshire. Folk musician (Nancy Kerr/Melrose Quartet), Music Teacher, Photographer, Presenter of Thank Goodness it’s Folk (Sheffield Live Radio). I love singing, and playing strummy things. Mainly here for art.
Folk singer-songwriter, music producer, artist and animator. Inspired by philosophy, folklore, psychology and nature. Bournemouth, Dorset. www.amyhopwood.co.uk
Accordion Squeezing, Folk Singing, Piano Thumping, Dance Calling Englishman, based in Brattleboro VT.
I perform with Audrey Jaber, Celtic trio Bellwether & Contra Dance bands Crossover & Red Case Band.
I'm also the Artistic Director at Revels North Inc.
Showcasing the best of traditional & contemporary folk music on the first Thursday of each month at The Red Lion, High Street, Egham.
I'm a good listener. I make Hello You the Shropshire podcast: intelligent, informed, progressive, quirky conversation for Shropshire and the wider world: jimallthetime.substack.com. Ex BBC radio
Photographer, musician, empath, Shrewsbury Folk Festival MC
Writer, singer-songwriter, stand up comedian, steampunk, motivated by helping people, bisexual. (Want to know more? Ask!)
Professional Squeezer with Banter, Edward II, Albion Xmas Band and anyone else who will have me.
Making Sunday night Folk Music night in Reading UK since 1982.
Visit 🌐 www.readifolk.org.uk to find out more and 🌐📻🛜 readifolkradio.bsky.social our weekly podcast brought to you by members of the club.
Folk musician, groovy ceilidh guitarist, doctor of geology and lover of volcanoes and our amazing planet, director of Kenilworth Event Services, owner of The Trailer Stage, decent sound engineer.
Danger! Ceilidh Band
Wet The Tea
midswégan
Also, beer 👍🏻
Singer, musician (using both terms loosely), card carrying member of the cycling, tofu eating Wokerati (according to my younger son)
Singer Songwriter From Birkenhead, Merseyside.
Kete Bowers Bankcamp Link Below
https://ketebowers.bandcamp.com/album/paper-ships
Kete Bowers Spotify Link Below
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vHUmyR4pvbSHb2KkmzBIX?si=99I5jlDeSVyYJKTadldnKA
Acapella folk group from Bedfordshire, performing in pubs, clubs and festivals. We love singing squishy harmonies and drinking gin.
"Highly recommended debut album... Acapella folk at its best" - Invisible Folk Club
https://jackinabarrel.co.uk
Runner, acoustic music, film, gardens…Would add emojis, but afraid I’d get it wrong and there would be some weird youth subtext to them.
I’m dyslexic. Visual tracking issues mean I sometimes leave words out. There will be typos.
Canadian in the U.K.
That Ukulele guy - Twitter exile, Rejoin EU, happily woke and can be sweary.. Also, photography, travel and foodie type.
https://linktr.ee/gotaukulele
I love my music and I love singing and I love folk music I love going to gigs and concerts and out with friends and going out for the day 🙂🙂
We are a folk band based in East Sussex, UK.
“...acoustically expansive, drone-deepened, acid-folk nuggets”- Stewart Lee, Idler Magazine
https://linktr.ee/sairieband
Performer/singer/songwriter/minimalist guitarist. Aspiring novelist. Healer. Dreamer. Feminist. Overthinker. Laugher. Laughed-at. Idiot
https://fb.watch/8E1wfyRjwF/
Andy here. Oxbow lake music and other projects on https://www.villagesunsets.com/
Cotswold Morris dancer team from South Devon, UK
Storyteller, environmentalist, folk tale purveyor, core group member of Dartmoor Nature Alliance.
New book 'English Folk Tales of Coast and Sea' available now in hardback, ebook and audiobook.
www.lisaschneidau.co.uk
https://maggieholland.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/maggieholland49
Retired music creator ... just for the fun of it. Anything from Prog Rock / Folk / Orchestral / Singer-Songwriter / Instrumental / Orchestral. Just following the musical muse.
Supporting folk music events in Bedfordshire, and organising the occasional non-profit one ourselves.
https://turveyfolk.org.uk/
I read the network news on 40 BBC radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & morris dancer.
Former academic but still a geek.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Trustee of @baysar.bsky.social.
Lancaster, UK.
Mandola player, butterfly surveyor, natural history writer. New Forest, Hampshire, UK.
Investigating origins and vulnerabilities of cancer chromosomal instability at the Barts Cancer Institute, London UK. Www.Mcclellandlab.com
Legendary 11 piece folk big band … follow for tour news and individual member updates.
Magazine Editor, Radio Show Host, Supporter Of Music, Social Commentator, Photographer
Folk singer, carer, recovering programmer.
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