"(2001). Equation has since been referred to as a folk supergroup as its members have all achieved considerable success. Sean has produced four albums for his younger brother Seth Lakeman which broke the boundaries and perceptions of traditionally based British folk music. ""Freedom Fields"" went gold in the UK and was voted BBC Radio 2 Folk Album of the year (2007). The Mercury music prize nominated ""Kitty Jay"", and ""Poor Man's Heaven"" which were both certified Silver in the UK. Sean was also a pivotal member of his brother Seth's touring band for 9 years, playing guitar. Sean is also"
"in 2009, as well as the award for best traditional track for her recording of ""The Lark in the Morning"". In addition to her solo work, she has performed as part of the folk trio Wistman's Wood and sung with Morris Offspring and The Imagined Village. Her brother is the singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer Jim Moray, and they have guested on each other's albums. Jackie Oates Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player. She was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983, but grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18, she moved to Devon"
"nominated for an award for best duo in the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Their first full length album ""Kite"", also recorded at North Farm, was released on 10 October 2011. The intimacy of the duo’s sound is still at the heart of the record, but is fleshed out at times by Adrian McNally (Unthanks) on piano, Dean Ravera on double bass, Chris Hibbard on trombone, Paul Ruddick on saxophone and clarinet and Peter Tickell (Peatbog Fairies, Sting, Kathryn Tickell Band) on fiddle. The duo have also contributed to a range of other people's work, including viola and vocals"
"John McCutcheon John McCutcheon (born August 14, 1952) is an American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and jawharp. McCutcheon was born to Roman Catholic parents in Wausau, Wisconsin. He attended Saint James Grade School and graduated from Newman Catholic High School. He is a graduate of Saint John's University in Minnesota. While in his 20s, he travelled to Appalachia and learned from some of the legendary greats"
"Barry Dransfield Barry Dransfield, born Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, 1947, is an English folk singer, fiddler, cellist and guitarist. He has appeared as a session musician on numerous albums by other artists, and has released his own albums as well. ""Rout of the Blues"" (1971) was voted ""Melody Maker"" folk album of the year. His 1972 album for Polydor, called simply ""Barry Dransfield"", was voted the rarest folk album in ""Record Hunter"", worth approximately £400. Unlike most fiddlers (but like some Appalachian players) he is comfortable playing in the ""off the chest"" position, instead of under the chin. In"
"albums John Mellencamp John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while ""honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,"" including ""Hurts So Good,"" ""Jack & Diane,"" ""Crumblin' Down,"" ""Pink Houses,"" ""Lonely Ol' Night,"" ""Small Town,"" ""R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,"" ""Paper in Fire"" and ""Cherry Bomb."" He has amassed 22"
"Dave Pegg. Slightly later a number of folk groups came out of Derbyshire, including The Druids, Ram's Bottom Band and Muckram Wakes, which included one of the most highly regarded modern performers John Tams. Lincolnshire has produced Martin Simpson, perhaps the most highly regarded folk guitarist of his generation. Birmingham’s position as a centre for folk music has been emphasised by its place as the home of the Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble, led by former Albion Band fiddler Joe Broughton, which provides something of a clearing house of promising young folk musicians. The regions has numerous folk clubs and host"
"Jackie Oates Jackie Oates is an English folk singer and fiddle player. She was born in Congleton in Cheshire in 1983, but grew up in Staffordshire. At the age of 18, she moved to Devon to study English literature at Exeter University, and was based in Devon until 2011, when she moved to Oxford. She was a member of Rachel Unthank and the Winterset between 2003 and 2007. She was a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award in 2003, and was one of the nominees for the Horizon Award in 2008, going on to win that award"
"John Mellencamp John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while ""honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,"" including ""Hurts So Good,"" ""Jack & Diane,"" ""Crumblin' Down,"" ""Pink Houses,"" ""Lonely Ol' Night,"" ""Small Town,"" ""R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,"" ""Paper in Fire"" and ""Cherry Bomb."" He has amassed 22 Top"
"one of the last albums recorded at the RG Jones Recording studio in Wimbledon. The vocal artists performing on this album include Cliff Richard, Marc Almond, Paul Young, Jon Anderson, Richard Sharp, Colin Blunstone, Gene Pitney, Leo Sayer, Donovan, Mike Read, The Rodolfus Choir and David Essex. In September 2009 Flowers founded a community choir, Shoreham Singers-by-Sea, which has in excess of 150 members, followed in September 2010 by the Ditchling Singers. Herbie Flowers Brian Keith ""Herbie"" Flowers (born 19 May 1938) is an English musician specialising in electric bass, double bass and tuba. He is noted as a member"
"artists including James Newton Chadwick and Ben Howard. In particular Smith uses a variety of open tunings and percussive techniques (especially on the song ""Winter""). http://www.johnsmithfans.com - Fan Website John Smith (musician) John Smith is an English folk guitarist and singer from Devon. He has toured Britain, Europe and America extensively, both solo and with artists such as Iron and Wine, James Yorkston, John Martyn, David Gray, Jools Holland, Gil Scott-Heron and Lisa Hannigan (whose records he also plays on). Smith remains unsigned to any record label, but has released four self-funded albums to date. After the death of John"
"and tours in the UK, Europe and the United States, Lakeman left Equation in 2001. He joined his brother Sam and Sam's wife Cara Dillon and appeared on Dillon's eponymous debut album, which featured Lakeman on fiddle, guitar and vocals. The album won two awards at the 2002 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In 2002 Lakeman released his first solo album, ""The Punch Bowl"", produced by elder brother Sean Lakeman which received wide critical acclaim including a review in ""fRoots"" magazine which said: ""The songs don't just glide smoothly by...they get their claws into you"". ""Kitty Jay"", Lakeman's second solo"
"music is the unique choral folk song, probably derived from an 18th-century ballad, known as the ""Holmfirth Anthem"" or ""Pratty Flowers"". The most eminent folk performers from the county are the Watersons from Hull, who began recording Yorkshire versions of folk songs from 1965, and members of which are still performing today. Also famous is the Leeds-born musician Jake Thackray, who became famous in the 1970s for singing witty, often bawdy songs, many of which related to rural Yorkshire life, in a style derived from the French ""chansonnier"" tradition. His work led him to be described by some as the"
"Keith John Adams Keith John Adams is a British singer-songwriter. He makes garage pop music on his own and with a number of revolving collaborators, some from the UK and some from the US. His band of 2015 is Keith John Adams and The Wildlife, a trio with Matt Armstrong on double-bass and Mark Braby on stand-up drums. He has released four solo albums: ""Sunshine Loft"" (2003), ""Pip"" (2005) ""Unclever"" (2007) and ""Roughhousing"" (2014). ""Roughhousing"" was released on vinyl as a co-release on 4 labels, Vacilando '68 in the UK, Red Wig in Germany, PIAPTK and Gray Sky Press from"
"2017/2018. 2007 she won All Britain titles on both whistle and pipes. Catherine Ashcroft Catherine Ashcroft (* in North West England) is an English musician (Irish Folk). She plays self-told whistles and Uillean pipes. In 2008 Ashcroft recorded her first CD ""Take Flight and Follow"" in the ""Stenkrith Studios"" in Kirkby Stephen. There she met Belfast's songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Maurice Dickson, both form the band ""Mochara"" (Irish for ""my friend"") since that year. They perform Celtic music. In common Ashcroft and Dickson have published three music albums: ""In Your Blood"" in 2010, ""Spirits and Dreamers"" in 2013 and ""Live"
"Newton Faulkner Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner (born 11 January 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and musician from Reigate, Surrey. He is known for his percussive style of guitar playing. In 2007 Faulkner's debut studio album ""Hand Built by Robots"" was certified double platinum in the United Kingdom. The album topped the UK Albums Chart in August 2007. It was promoted by three singles, ""Dream Catch Me"", ""I Need Something"" and ""Teardrop"". ""Dream Catch Me"" reached number seven on the UK Singles Charts. Faulkner's second studio album, ""Rebuilt by Humans"", was released in 2009 and charted at number 3 on the"
"Jim Causley Jim Causley is an English folk singer, songwriter, and musician from Devon who specializes in the traditional songs and music of the West Country. Causley hails from the village of Whimple in East Devon, Causley was born in Exeter and is a relative of the Cornish poet Charles Causley. Described by Mojo Magazine as ""the finest singer of his generation"", Causley grew up in an area rich in traditional music; his home village in the heart of Cider Country with its thriving wassailing tradition and its close proximity to Sidmouth and Dartmoor folk festivals. After studying Performing Arts"
"a teacher in Durham, where he qualified in 1975. He commenced his singing career as a resident at the ""Davy Lamp"" Folk Club in Washington, Tyne and Wear in approx. 1970 and in 1975, teamed up to form a professional duo with fellow north-eastern singer (and fiddle player) Tom McConville for 2 years (1975–77). After this he formed a duo with ex-Hedgehog Pie singer, guitarist and acoustic bass guitar player Stu Luckley which performed all over the United Kingdom and recorded two albums, the first of which ""Nowt So Good'll Pass"" was voted Folk Album of the Year by Melody"
"Jon Boden Jon Boden (born 17 March 1977) is a singer, composer and musician, best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead. His first instrument is the fiddle and he is a leading proponent of ""English traditional fiddle style"" and also of ""fiddle singing"", both of which he employed in Bellowhead, in the duo Spiers & Boden, and previously as a member of Eliza Carthy’s Ratcatchers. To date Jon Boden has been the recipient of 11 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, more than any other musician. Boden also fronts his own band the Remnant Kings, put together in"
"his songs and monologues. In 2006 he produced a book of silly one-verse poems ""Shorts For All Occasions"", which was followed in 2008 by ""The Longs & The Shorts Of It"". Bernard Wrigley Bernard Wrigley (born 1948 in Bolton, Lancashire) is a singer, actor and comedian. He is sometimes known by the nickname ""The Bolton Bullfrog"". Wrigley's career as a singer and storyteller began in the late 1960s, when a love of folk music led him to perform in folk clubs. Since then he has released over sixteen albums of traditional and original songs, stories and monologues. His main instruments"
"tracks. He is 69. Dransfield has composed music for several films for TV and the wide screen: ""S.O.S. Titanic"", ""Adelaide Harris"", ""Play Away"", ""Samson an Delilah"" (1985), ""Ballymena Opera House"" and ""The Wreck of the Julie Plante"" (1985). He acted the part of the blind fiddler in ""The Bounty"" (1984) (with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins). In 1986, he changed career to become a so-called ""Fiddle Doctor"", repairing violins and cellos. In 1994, he joined the Steeleye Span UK tour. Barry Dransfield Barry Dransfield, born Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, 1947, is an English folk singer, fiddler, cellist and guitarist."
"; Drums, Dave Steel; Harmonica, Mandolin, Marcia Howard; Backing vocals, Michael Santamaria; Irish Whistles. In 2000 at the Woodford Folk Festival Bygrave was invited to be the soloist with the choir (directed by Kavisha Mazzella) during the famous Fire event. This was broadcast live to 1.5 billion people on a worldwide link via the BBC. In 2001 she released her second solo album ""Walking Home"". musicians featured include, Lyndsay Field; Backing Vocals,( John Farnham), Tony Hicks; Soprano Sax, Tony Floyd; Drums, Chris Bekker; Bass, Sam See; Guitars ( Stockley, See and Mason, JohnFarnham, Steve Visard Show MD), Marcia Howard; Backing"
"BBC, ""one of the more colourful folk albums of 2011, from a pair of true virtuosos"". Edey toured with The Chieftains on their 2014 tour of the United States, their 2017 tour of Japan and was also a member of Lúnasa. Tim Edey Tim Edey is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer who grew up in Broadstairs, Kent and is now living in Ardara Co. Donegal In 2012 he was Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and, with Brendan Power, Best Duo. He has been nominated again for the same award in Feb 2018. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/ZkWmhJY7WBxLNZbRp65V1S/nominees Edey"
"The wedding was described by Seth's father, Geoff Lakeman, as a ""mini-festival"". Among the wedding guests who also made performance contributions were Cara Dillon, Steve Potter, Steve Knightley, Cormac Byrne, Patsy Reid and Mad Dog Mcrea. Seth Lakeman Seth Bernard Lakeman (born 26 March 1977) is an English folk singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, who is most often associated with the fiddle and tenor guitar, but also plays the viola and banjo. Nominated for the 2005 Mercury Music Prize, Lakeman has belonged to several musical ensembles, including one with his two brothers, fellow folk musicians Sam Lakeman and Sean Lakeman, but"
"Dean Brody, Shane Yellowbird, Gord Bamford, Chad Brownlee, The Road Hammers, Rowdy Spurs, Colter Wall and The Higgins. Australian country music has a long tradition. Influenced by American country music, it has developed a distinct style, shaped by British and Irish folk ballads and Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Country instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica, create the distinctive sound of country music in Australia and accompany songs with strong storyline and memorable chorus. Folk songs sung in Australia between the 1780s and 1920s, based around such themes as the struggle against government tyranny,"
"Bryony Griffith Bryony Griffith, (born 1977 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK), is an English fiddle player and singer, specialising in English traditional songs and tunes. She is best known for her work with the Demon Barbers and a cappella quartet Witches of Elswick. Griffith was born into a musical family, learning the piano alongside the violin. She was educated at King James's School, Almondbury, followed by Greenhead College, and studied French and Spanish at University of Hull. In her early teens, she joined the ceilidh band Bedlam and played in folk music venues and festivals around the United Kingdom. As part"
"""Northern Noel Coward"". Other Yorkshire folk musicians include Heather Wood (b. 1945) of the Young Tradition, the short-lived electric folk group Mr Fox (1970–2), The Deighton Family, Julie Matthews, Kathryn Roberts, and the Mercury Prize nominated Kate Rusby. Yorkshire has a flourishing folk music culture, with over forty folk clubs and thirty annual folk music festivals. In 2007 the Yorkshire Garland Group was formed to make Yorkshire folk songs accessible online and in schools. Yorkshire has played a significant part in popular music, starting with the unconventional Arthur Brown in the 1960s. During the following decade David Bowie, himself of"
"occasionally performs purer folk music, particularly when playing the dulcimer. In 2011 McCutcheon portrayed IWW organizer and songwriter Joe Hill in Si Kahn's one-man play ""Joe Hill's Last Will"", produced by Main Stage West in Sebastopol, California. John McCutcheon John McCutcheon (born August 14, 1952) is an American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 34 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other instruments including guitar, banjo, autoharp, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, and jawharp. McCutcheon was born to Roman Catholic parents in Wausau, Wisconsin. He attended"
"""The Blacksmith"" and ""Bonnie at Morn"" on Gerry Diver's album, ""Diversions"" (2002) and also performed on two of the tracks on David Rotheray's 2013 album ""Answer Ballads"". Lisa Knapp Lisa Knapp (born 1974 in Balham), and raised in Tooting, south London, is an English folk singer, songwriter, fiddle player and multi-instrumentalist. Her singing voice has been described as ""crystal clear"" and reminiscent of Anne Briggs or Jeannie Robertson. Two of her three albums have received five-starred reviews in the British national press. Her debut album, ""Wild and Undaunted"", released in 2007, was ""Mojo"" 's Folk Album of the Year. It"
"and was highly commended in the Ian Falloon Memorial Awards for his work in the area of family interventions. He is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, a trainer in Behavioural Family Therapy and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Worcester. Gillam was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Alongside his career in mental health nursing, he is also a musician and singer-songwriter. In 2007, he released an album ""Untangle the Strings"" under his own name and has previously released two EPs recorded under the name Teach Yourself Shorthand. His latest musical project is a"
"poem, set to music by Peter Bellamy, their self-stated aim is to ""present gimmick-free English folk of the finest kind"". The five band members, Edwin Beasant, Jude Rees, Tom Kitching, Jon Loomes and Heather Sirrel play a wide range of instruments, often changing between them many times during sessions, which enables the band to play a very diverse repertoire of music. 2011 - FATEA Magazine Tradition award winner <br> 2012 - Spiral Earth Debut album award - nominee <br> 2012 - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards New Horizons award - nominee Pilgrims' Way (band) Pilgrim's Way are an English folk"
"the multicultural folk music traditions of the United Kingdom. Brighton-based folk-punk band The Levellers who formed in 1988 continue to play, winning the Roots Award at the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Combining a vocal sound reminiscent of folk singers Sandy Denny and fellow Sussexian Shirley Collins with sounds from New Orleans and Vancouver, folk-blues band Smoke Fairies emerged in the early 2000s to acclaim, particularly in the United States. Passenger (real name Mike Rosenberg) achieved success in folk-alternative rock genre, both with the band Passenger and as a solo artist. Singer-songwriter Mary Hampton has been critically acclaimed, as"
"June 2010. They have two children. Christmas albums Kate Rusby Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, Barnsley. Sometimes called the ""Barnsley Nightingale"", she has headlined various British national folk festivals, and is one of the best known contemporary English folk singers. In 2001 ""The Guardian"" described her as ""a superstar of the British acoustic scene."" In 2007 the BBC website described her as ""The first lady of young folkies"". She is one of the few folk singers to have been nominated for the Mercury Prize. Rusby was born into a family of"