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Little Lore is the alter-ego of Tricia Duffy London based, Indie-Americana singer-storyteller famed for singing short long-stories. Her songs are charmingly accessible and beguilingly challenging. You’ll want to listen twice. When you combine British wit and wordplay with cherished Americana roots, musical magic starts to happen. Tricia started her singing career as a teenager, which included a stint on cruise ships in the United States.

Rhianna Jackson is a singer songwriter based in South West London with a passion for performing who sings a variety of genres including soul, jazz, country and r&b. Rhianna has a wide range of influences including Amy Winehouse, Etta James, and Adele.

Born in the East End of London, Kathleen O’Sullivan learned to sing from her mother and all her family sang and played traditional Irish music.  She toured with The London Lasses for many years before returning to her unaccompanied singing roots. Antrim man Billy Teare, has been a storyteller for over 50 years, appearing on stage, radio, screen and big screen.  He has been a featured artist at all major folk and storytelling venues around the world.

Jason McNiff is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Bradford, moving to London in the 90s where he became involved in the Folk and Americana scene. A regular performer at the 12 bar club in Denmark street, he opened for Bert Jansch numerous times, signing to Snowstorm records in 2000. His debut album ,’Off the Rails’ was well received with glowing reviews especially in Time Out, London’s most important magazine. With Andy Allan from Hank Dogs, he helped run the Easycome Acosutic Club, and was also a regular a Come Down and Meet the Folks, Alan Tyler’s legendary Sunday afternoon shindig.

Dave Ellis & Boo Howard are a long established London based acoustic singer songwriter duo.  With regular appearances at festivals and folk clubs, Dave & Boo are an integral part of the British acoustic folk scene and firm favourites with audiences up and down the land.  Dave Ellis left Liverpool and headed to London with his guitar at the tender age of 18. He was soon headlining at major venues, getting rave reviews for his extraordinary guitar playing, duetting with Gordon Giltrap and touring with his hero Bert Jansch. Melody Maker listed him as “one of the 6 best guitarists in the world.”

Steve Ashley has long been regarded as one of British folk’s finest singer-songwriters. His reputation for writing contemporary songs inspired by the English Tradition was established in 1974 with his innovative debut album, Stroll On. Since then his songs have been recorded by many leading folk artists including Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Ralph McTell and Wizz Jones, Show of Hands, O’Hooley & Tidow, Dave Pegg and PJ Wright, The Arizona Smoke Review, Martin and Jessica Simpson, Grace Notes, Phil Beer, Maggie Boyle, The Bushwackers, The Owl Service, Sproatly Smith and Hannah Sanders and Liz Simmons.

Rumpled Muslin are a highly accomplished and entertaining all-female trio who sing in glorious folk harmony with strong solo leads. The group are steeped in the traditions of folk music, from England, Scotland, and further afield, and deliver ballads and comic songs with equal sincerity.  Amanda MacLean, Alison Frosdick and Wendy Lanchin have many years of musical experience between them and it shines through every aspect of their performance. Their impressive arrangements and well-judged harmonies create a sound that seems bigger and more complex than just three voices. The blend of their voices is highly effective and with impeccable timing and great storytelling the three sound like they have been singing together much longer than just four years.

2024 saw the long awaited new album from Gren Bartley. Two years in the making, “Unfold” expands further and deeper into the cinematic folk genre. Somewhere between R.E.M.s Automatic for the People and Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left, Bartley has found something entirely of it’s own mind.  Gren Bartley is part of the future of melodic songwriting. Forever evolving and adapting, and with unmatched guitar work, he is a modern day troubadour, using his influences from older folk and world music traditions, to create truly astounding records. He brings something new and unique to his audience. He is an artist not to be missed.

Back when Greg Brice played the pubs, clubs and bars of the West Midlands he’d often find some of the toughest audiences you could imagine hanging on his every word within a few bars. His intricate fingerstyle guitar and strident electric slide connected in the raw and immediate way that only proper roots music can. And that voice – clear as a bell, powerful and pure.  Now, in the hush of the UK’s Blues and Americana clubs it’s the quality of his song writing that’s capturing people’s imagination. Within just days of launching his debut album crowdfunding campaign, those lucky enough to have already discovered him came out in force. They knew something that the rest of the UK Blues scene will soon realise – that Greg Brice is a proper talent.

Bird in the Belly is a Brighton-based Folk group consisting of folk-duo Hickory Signals (Laura Ward and Adam Ronchetti), alt-folk singer-songwriter Ben Webb (Jinnwoo, Green Ribbons), and multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Pryor. Together they collect little known and forgotten lyrics, poems and stories from around the UK, and set them to their own “hypnotically original compositions”.  Their sound is raw and bare-boned with “distinctively contemporary and earthy vocalising” (R2 Magazine) – and harks back to the 1960’s Folk Revival sound. Their debut album ‘The Crowing’ (March 2018, GF*M Records) was met with critical acclaim, the Sunday Express giving the album 5/5 and calling it folk album of the year.