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Roger Davies is a West Yorkshire songsmith with a delicate touch. You are more than likely to be instantly taken by his cool delivery and easy going relaxed stage presence. This is because there’s a certain unpatronising warmth about a performer who refers to his audience as his ‘gang’, and consequently, you seem to enfold…

Former Waking the Witch singer-songwriters Patsy Matheson and Becky Mills. Maintaining the essence of that much missed all-female vocal harmony quartet, Patsy and Becky mixed new material with older songs, together with the odd 1980s cover thrown in. Starting with a couple of staples from the Waking the Witch repertoire, Patsy’s There For Me, which first…

Joe Topping is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the Wirral, whose musical journey so far has been as colourful as it has varied. Joe who can play anything from traditional British folk music to Delta blues slide guitar also “has a gift to write songs that will last and that others will want to sing” John Wright.…

Two lead singers, two born entertainers, two top flight songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, bringing to the stage fiddle, guitars, mandola, Northumbrian pipes and bass drum, topped off with soaring vocal harmonies. With all hands, mouths and feet in action you’d be forgiven for thinking you’re hearing a 5 piece band! Broom Bezzums strike a keen balance…

Jez Lowe has built an enviable reputation as a songwriter and performer in the world of acoustic music, and as a recognised musical ambassador for his native North East England, with more than a dozen albums and countless live performances around the world over the last twenty years. Among those who have recorded their own…

Phil is one of the most popular ambassadors for acoustic roots music. A dazzling instrumentalist, he is perhaps best known as a top flight fiddler and plays in the all-star line-up, Feast of Fiddles. But his skills don’t stop there, he also plays slide, Spanish and tenor guitar, mandocello, viola, mandolin and South American cuatro,…

Popular Fellside Recording Artist Bram Taylor has a wealth of experience having established a fine reputation both here and abroad, performing at Folk Festivals, Folk Clubs, Arts Centres and other concert venues in the UK, USA, Canada and Europe. He enthrals audiences with his fine rich voice and entertaining sense of humour, performing an excellent…

With a love for traditional and contemporary folk alike, underpinned by a passion for the works of Robert Burns, Eilidh’s stunning voice has made a considerable impression on the British and European folk scenes. Her vocal style, with shades of a Caledonian Joni Mitchell, won her the Danny Kyle Award at the 2004 Celtic Connections…

Flossie is is a French born singer who was based in the North East of England.. She has become an accomplished performer playing at folk clubs and festivals all over the UK (and beyond) and supporting acts such as Fairport Convention and Show of Hands. Flossie’s powerful yet sensitive rendition of songs combined with her quaint…