Alasdair Roberts - alasdairroberts.com
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician. He released a number of albums under the name Appendix Out, and following the 2001 album The Night is Advancing, under his own name. Roberts is noted for both his own compositions and recitations of traditional songs, including on his album of traditional death ballads, No Earthly Man and in 2006 featured in the BBC documentary Folk Britannia.
Bella Hardy - bellahardy.com
Though only 25 years old, Bella Hardy has already been nominated three times in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has been well known on the folk circuit for many years, playing fiddle in a variety of popular line-ups as a teenager and reaching the finals of the BBC Young Folk Awards in 2004.
Camille O'Sullivan - camilleosullivan.com
Camille O'Sullivan is a French-Irish singer,actress and entertainer.O'Sullivan has performed in sell-out seasons in Ireland, New York, the UK, Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) with her award winning show and also with the ensemble off Broadway hit show 'La Clique' (know as 'Absinthe' in America).
Eleanor McEvoy - eleanormcevoy.com
Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song Only A Woman's Heart, title track of A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish history
Eliza Carthy - eliza-carthy.com
Eliza Carthy, born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is an English folk musician known for both singing and playing fiddle. She is the daughter of English folk musicians singer/guitarist Martin Carthy and singer Norma Waterson. She has twice been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for UK album of the year: in 1998 for Red Rice, and again in 2003 for Anglicana.
Nat Johnson - natjohnson.co.uk
Nat Johnson is the former singer, songwriter and guitarist of Monkey Swallows the Universe. Her debut solo single, 'Dirty Rotten Soul' was released in September 2008. Since then, she has put together a band operating under the name of "The Figureheads".
Julie Murphy - Homepage
Julie Murphy is an English-born singer who sings in Welsh and English. She has been a member of the Welsh band Fernhill. She has collaborated musically with John Cale (performing with him in the Welsh film Beautiful Mistakes), Afrocelt Sound System (in a duet with Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin), Robert Plant (touring in his support) and Ayub Ogada (in a one-off concert at The O2).
Jim Causley - jimcausley.co.uk
Jim Causley is a folk singer and musician from Devon who specializes in the traditional songs and music of the West Country and Devon in particular. Hailing from the village of Whimple in East Devon, Causley was born in Exeter to Ross & Jo Causley, prominent singers on the Devon folk scene in their own right and relations to the Cornish poet Charles Causley.
Jack L - jacklukeman.com
Jack Lukeman, usually simply known as Jack L, is an Irish singer/songwriter and a native of Athy, Co. Kildare. He became popular in Ireland in the late nineties with his 1999 album Metropolis Blue. He has since released a number of solo studio albums. Lukeman also appeared with Nick Cave and writer Patrick McCabe in a series of performances mixing spoken word, poetry reading and song.
Kathryn Williams - kathrynwilliams.net
Kathryn Williams released her first album, Dog Leap Stairs on her own Caw Records label in 1999 with a budget of £80. The follow up, Little Black Numbers, garnered a Mercury Prize nomination, bringing her to the attention of a wider public. A spell with EastWest / Atlantic followed (Old Low Light in 2002, and the Relations covers album in 2004), before she returned to her independent roots with 2005's Over Fly Over. She released her sixth album, Leave to Remain, on Caw in 2006.
