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Harvey Andrews	Harvey Andrews is an elder statesman of the folk circuit. He was one of the early giants of that group of folk artists for whom it is important that folk music is not frittered away but is used to address the most important aspects of everyone's life. However it is always done with respect, humour and artistry, so that the message never gets in the way of a really good song.
Artisan	Artisan, comprising Hilary Spencer and Jacey and Brian Bedford were a most popular and accomplished group singing a capella harmony, but alas they have now disbanded. Some of their repertoire has joined new material written by Brian for his new venture The Brian Bedford Band. Hilary is now concentrating on QuickSilver her collaboration with Grant Baynham .
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Les Barker	Les Barker is unique. He is an (ex)accountant with an extreme sense of the quirky humour. His hilarious poems have introduced many characters of outstanding charm such as Cosmo the fairly-accurate ..., Spot of the Antarctic, Captain Indecisive.
Roy Bailey	Roy has been entertaining audiences for well over forty years. His distinguished career in the folk world lead to the award of an MBE in 2000. Never to be missed
Brian Bedford Band	The Brian Bedford Band , is new in 2006 and comprises Jacey and Brian Bedford (formerly two thirds of Artisan), American duo Pint and Dale and multi-instrumentalist Ben Walker. The band replaced Artisan, which alas has now disbanded, as a showcase for Brian's song-writing brilliance. Its repertoire includes some new arrangements of Artisan favourites together with new material written by Brian specifically for this new venture.
Tom Bliss & Tom Napper.	Both of the Toms are virtuoso multi-instrumentalists with wide-ranging experience in the folk world. At last they have come together as a duo. Tom Bliss is a major song-writer and they are both fine singers.
Eric Bogle	A self-export from Scotland to Australia, Eric has established himself as giant amongst the singer-songwriters with many of his greatest numbers covered by many other artists. Eric tours the UK approximately once every two years when he is not to be missed.
Maggie Boyle	Maggie Boyle has a voice which gets deep into a song. Plays flutes and bodhran. Appears solo, with Gordon Tyrell and in the Grace Notes trio.
Derek Brimstone	Derek Brimstone is a guitarist, singer, banjo picker, comedian and racounteur since Adam was a lad and is a perennial favourite.
Tom and Barbara Brown	Tom and Barbara live in Devon. Tom spent several years working for EFDSS and subsequently for Wandsworth Council. They perform a wide range of songs, occasionally accompanied by Tom on guitar or concertina, sometimes with a specialisation in the songs of the extreme southwest of England
Ian Bruce	Ian has a wealth of material that is perpetually popular. We have seen too little of him in his years living in Germany.
Dave Burland	Dave Burland started as a most relaxed perform and seems to have slowed down since then. Outstanding performer of traditional music and music in the traditional idiom.
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Eliza Carthy	Eliza, daughter of Martin and Norma Waterson(Carthy) has established herself an equally outstanding status in the young generation of folk artists. She continues to contribute to the family based groups in addition to her brilliant solo career and a series of collaborations. Although, having a recording contract with a main-stream record company, she continues to turn out brilliant folk performances ( both traditional and modern ).
Martin Carthy	Martin is probably the most outstanding folk artist currently performing. He has been one of the outstanding artists throughout his career which was going strong in the sixties. (Who is reputed to have taught Paul Simon about Parsley and other herbs?) His distinguished career in the folk world lead to the award of an MBE in 1999.
Pauline Cato & Tom McConville	Pauline and Tom are one of the most popular and successful folk duos. Tom's rich singing and fiddle playing complements Pauline's virtuoso playing of the Northumbrian Pipes.
Vikki Clayton	Vikki has had a varied career typified by her recorded output including CD's of songs collected by Percy Grainger, her settings of John Clare poems, one of Sandy Denny songs and one concentrating on her own songs. She regularly appears at Cropredy.
Pete Coe	Pete Coe is one of the most committed, most versatile and most important folk artists in Britian. He is a multi-instrumentalist singer who also step dances (sometimes all together). He collects, writes, teaches, organises and does just about anything else associated with folk. Genuinely a one-man folk industry.
Coope, Boyes & Simpson	Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Lester Simpson have a powerful and distinctive style of unaccompanied singing which is unsurpassed on the folk scene.
Judy Cook	Judy Cook lifts the spirit and entertains with splendid traditional ballads and songs from a huge and varied Anglo-American repertoire. Her unaccompanied presentation and delivery are a great example to any singer.
Jenny Crook & Henry Sears	Jenny Crook and Henry Sears are a multi-instrumental duo based in Bath, UK. Between them they play Celtic harp, fiddle, viola, mandolin, low whistles and guitar. Oh, and they sing...
Andy Cutting	Andy Cutting is a soulful and technically outstanding melodeon practitioner with an ear for a fine tune. Andy is also a warm and emotive performer, modestly engaging his audiences with his self-deprecating wit and then flooring them with downright staggering musicianship.
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Paul Downes	Paul is primarily an outstanding singer who is also a brilliant guitarist who has sung with Phil Beer, Pete Seeger, The Arizona Smoke Revue and the Joyce Gang. He is a great performer who you should catch live.
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Dave Ellis and Boo Howard	Dave and Boo are a duo based in London. Boo handles most of the vocals while Dave plays virtuoso guitar and banjo including highly individual 12-string tuned to fifths instead of the octaves.
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Dave Fletcher and Bill Whaley	Dave & Bill have worked around the East Midlands and their native Lincolnshire for several years and now their reputation is deservedly spreading throughout the country.
Bob Fox	Bob Fox is from a mining family in County Durham, but avoided the mine for a life of music. A wealth of songs including many from the North-East and outstanding guitar. He will have you singing the choruses lustily from the very first song.
The Fraser Sisters	The Fraser Sisters are Jo Freya and Fi Fraser. They are supported by Ralph Jordan on Duet Concertina and Guitars etc. They have a repertoire of traditional and current songs as well as being virtuoso instrumentalists (fiddles, dulcimer,clarinet, saxophones and whistles).
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Vin Garbutt	Sometimes the BBC get things right - and they certainly did when they awarded Vin "Outstanding Live Act" at the BBC2 Folk Awards. There is no-one else like Vin and he is never to be missed.
Dick Gaughan	Dick expresses his firmly held political ideals in extremely accomplished guitar playing and powerful singing. He is one of the outstanding Scottish artists. His concerts are never dull.
Richard Grainger	Richard Grainger is based in Middlesborough and has a broad repertoire particularly encompassing songs about the Middlesborough area and the Cleveland hills together with a wide range of sea songs. A special category within these are songs celebrating the life and contributions to seafaring and world exploration of James Cook.
Derek Gifford	Derek Gifford is a great singer whose specialities are Sea Songs and his own settings of Keith Scowcroft's Poems. The best known of these probably being that great anthem "When All Men Sing".
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Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner	Lynne & Pat are two of the most experienced singers on the folk scene. They combine the very best of the folk tradition in beautiful harmony with their own and Victorian/Edwardian songs.
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Robb Johnson	Robb Johnson is a prolific writer of songs with uncompromising messages, which he sometimes performs solo and often with Saskia Tomkins and Miranda Richardson as RJ3. Always an entertaining and thought provoking evening.
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Keith Kendrick	Keith is a virtuoso on the concertina - indeed he is one of that rare breed who play more than one type of concertina. He is also a brilliant singer of a very wide range of folk songs either solo or with a variety of other singers at different times including a duo with Lynne Heraud and joining Derek Gifford and Geoff Higginbottom in the shanty-trio Three Sheets to the Wind.
James Keelaghan	James Keelaghan is one of Canada's folk megastars. James is a major singer-songwriter who should not be missed.
Benji Kirkpatrick	Benji is an outstanding young instrumentalist on a wide range of fretted string instuments, who has also inherited his father's love of traditional and more contemporary songs. He plays in several outstanding groups of young folk musicians including Bellowhead, which won a BBC folk award in 2005.
John Kirkpatrick	John Kirkpatrick is the outstanding master of all squeezed instruments. Another towering figure over several decades, he sings and plays his instruments with an outstanding folk artistry.
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Last Night's Fun	Chris Sherburn, Denny Bartley and Nick Scott provide a combination of virtuoso musicianship on Guitar, Uillean pipes and Concertina with hilarious non-stop patter and song.
Robin Laing	Robin's real interest is in folk song and especially the old Scots Ballads, or "Muckle Sangs" as they are sometimes known. However, he also has a tremendous respect for the songs of Robert Burns, (not just the rude ones), and the tradition of Scots fiddle music.
Legacy	Legacy have established themselves as one of the most popular Celtic bands around with a reputation for breathtaking sets of tunes coupled with great songs and awe-inspiring instrumentation. Blending together the diverse musical worlds of jazz, celtic and world music.
Jez Lowe	Jez Lowe is from a mining family in County Durham, but avoided the mine for a life of music. He is one of the truly outstanding songwriters in the folk movement and his gigs, whether solo or with the Bad Pennies are outstandingly popular.
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Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke	Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke are a husband and wife duo which is the heart of So Long Angel. They have performed together as a folk/roots duo for 10 years. Both are singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists.
Tom McConville & Pauline Cato	Pauline and Tom are one of the most popular and successful folk duos. Tom's rich singing and fiddle playing complements Pauline's virtuoso playing of the Northumbrian pipes.
Ralph McTell	Ralph McTell is still going strong, and is so well known that saying more would be superfluous.
Mundy-Turner	Australian Kath Mundy on Fiddle and the North-East's Jay Turner on Guitar are a stunning duo, mainly performing their own songs
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Tom Napper & Tom Bliss.	Both of the Toms are virtuoso multi-instrumentalists with wide-ranging experience in the folk world. At last they have come together as a duo. Tom Bliss is a major song-writer and they are both fine singers.
Mike Nicholson	To quote Bob Copper "When Mike sings a song it stays sung - and you won't forget it". Mike is not to be missed.
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Kristina Olsen	Kristina is one of the most entertaining and compelling performers on the internmational folk circuit. She is a fine instrumentalist and singer-songwriter with a bluesy voice.
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Ben Paley & Tab Hunter	Ben Paley & Tab Hunter started playing together in the Aardvarks and now perform as a duo. Ben was described by Folk Roots as "just about the best folk-fiddler of his generation". Tab's guitar virtuosity complements this perfectly.
George Papavgeris	George Papavgeris is a recent addition to the world of singer-songwriters, but has already shown an outstanding talent for identifying an ignored subject crying out to be the subject of a folk song. He then writes song after song that are immediately recognised as undiscovered standards. One of the blossoming stars of the circuit.
Brian Peters	Brian Peters is a singer, guitarist and melodeon player of rare ability and a firm club favourite with his mixture of traditional ballads and modern songs and tunes.
Sam Pirt	Sam is an outstanding young accordionist. He plays music from many countries, always exploring the possibilities inherent in the basic tune and achieving effects other accordioninsts say should be impossible.
Brendan Power	Brendan Power is a New Zealander who now lives in Kent. He has developed a considerable reputation for his concert and recording work featuring the harmonica. Equally at ease on both the earthy Blues Harp and the sophisticated Chromatic Harmonica, he employs his own custom tunings to breathe fresh life into an often typecast instrument.
Alan Prosser	Alan is an outstanding guitarist. Those who encounter him as the indefatigable core of Oysterband, power chords and solos to the fore in a sharp electric lineup, know only one part of Alan’s playing. Long before all this, he was part of a collective of young experimenters who one day would be playing medieval music, next delving into the arcane mysteries of the North Carolina Ramblers or the Mississippi Mud Steppers, and the next trying to fathom how the great English players managed to do that on their guitars.
Quicksilver	Quicksilver comprises Hilary Spencer (For twenty years that Voice in acapella meistersingers Artisan) and Grant Baynham (ex-'That's Life!' and comic songsmith to the stars) who have been working together since 2004 and were a smash hit when they made one of their first performances at the club. Their gigs are invariably rapturously received.
Maddy Prior	Maddy Prior's singing (and dancing) was for most of its history and is again one of the outstanding strengths of Steeleye Span. An artist never to be missed whether apearing in Steeleye, with the Carnival Band, with Friends or solo.
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Real Time	Real Time are ex Bad Penny Judy Dinning and ex John Wright Band members Kenny Speirs and Joe Wright. They mix traditional and contemporary material. All very accomplished instrumentalists together with great singing.
Ed Rennie	Ed is a first class interpreter of songs and ballads, mainly from the English tradition. Ed is equally at home with the melodeon, cittern, guitar or unaccompanied song. Ed's performances are relaxed and rather jolly affairs.
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman	For much of the year Kathryn and Sean touring the world. The rest of the year they are building up a reputation as an accomplished young folk duo.
Leon Rosselson	Leon Rosselson has had a long and distinguished career as a singer-songwriter with a widely varied output and as an author. His song "The World Turned Upside Down" has made the pop charts and he was nominated for Carnegie Medal for his first book.
annA rydeR	Anna is a superb singer songwriter and talented multi-instrumentalist whose songs are consistently original and inventive. She combines a captivating stage presence with an endearing naivety that reaches out to the whole audience.
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Colum Sands	Colum Sands. Irish Charm, Gentle Wit and Wonderful Singing
Mike Silver	Mike Silver.Mike Silver has been writing and playing music for more than 30 years. He is a consummte guitarist and has a full, crystal clear voice. He has been compared to both James Taylor and Phil Collins.
Emily Slade	Emily has burst on to the folk scene in the last couple of years - and just gets better and better. As for her guitar playing - what better testament can there have been but to be invited to join the Phil Beer Band.
So Long Angel	So Long Angel is a five piece folk/blues band built around Fran McGillivray & Mike Burke.
Isla St Clair	Isla is the supreme communicator with her audience. She has charm in abundance, a voice to die for and a variety of songs which always satisfies everyones tastes while introducing you to a wide variety of songs both familiar and less well known.
Roger Sutcliffe	Roger is one of the outstanding blues performers on the folk/blues circuit. He plays a variety of guitar styles on several types of guitar. His introductions are such that the crowd usually wears a smile as wide as Roger's own.
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Allan Taylor	Allan Taylor has been considered as the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsung heroes, otherwise uncharted lives. His songs are faultlessly constructed and flawlessly performed, with his instantly recognisable voice, attractively dark and mellow, accompanied by his intricately detailed yet full-sounding guitar.
John Tams	John Tams is an outstanding singer songwriter who has had a distinguished career in the theatre, particularly with the National Theatre as well as multiple awards in the annual BBC Folk Awards. He is also one of the best known of the actors in the Sharpe series on television as rifleman Hagman.
Ingrid and Barry Temple	Ingrid and Barrie come from Newcastle on Tyne. They sing a mixture of Barrie's compositions and other songs in marvellous harmony and in a folk music world where most people are very friendly, they are seriously friendly to all. They can be contacted by email at barrie@ingrid20.fsnet.co.uk
Hans Theessink	Hans Theessink is a dutch blues guitarist who is now resident in Vienna. His singing of traditional and modern blues is excelled only by his amazing guitar technique. So much so that he spends a great deal of time touring in the USA where he is recognised as one of the giants of the blues. Not to be missed when he is touring in the UK.
Trio Threlfall	Jane and Amanda Threlfall, are joined by Roger Edwards on Concertina and Guitar to form a trio which concentrates on traditional songs, normally sung in close harmony.
Steve Tilston	Steve is a singer-songwriter who has many of the outstanding modern folk songs, such as Slip Jigs and Reels, to his credit. He always provides a first class evenings entertainment.
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Eddie Walker	Eddie Walker is a blues guitarist and singer who is totally at home in folk clubs, where he always provides a brilliant evenings entertainment featuring many of the greatest numbers of the original blues artists.
Norma Waterson	Norma was a well established folk star both as a solo performer and as a member of the family group, the Watersons, before Martin Carthy joined it and married her. She remains an outstanding solo folk artist as well as performing in the family groups, Waterson-Carthy and Blue Murder (with Coope Boyes and Simpson).
Waterson-Carthy	This is the family group containing Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson and their daughter Eliza, all major solo stars in their own right. The current line-up also contains Tim van Eyken
Dave Fletcher and Bill Whaley	Dave & Bill have worked around the East Midlands and their native Lincolnshire for several years and now their reputation is deservedly spreading throughout the country.
Wood and Cutting	Chris Wood and Andy Cutting are both solo stars in their own rights. Local lad Chris is one of the select group of violin superstars within the folk community. He is also a significant figure in the violin playing community outside folk music. Andy is equally pre-eminent amongst those who squeeze out their music, in his case on the button accordion. Together they are simply a mind-blowing folk duo who no-one should miss.
Wood-Wilson-Carthy	Martin Carthy, Chris Wood and Roger Wilson are all solo stars in their own rights. It is an enormous pleasure when they get together, not so much as a group but as friends who accompany each other on their favourite solo performances.
Witches of Elswick	Witches of Elswick are four young lasses, who were all folk musicians who happened to share a house, until one night after the pub they started to sing together in the kitchen and realised that they could thoroughly enjoy themselves as an a capella harmony group. Great Fun, Great Music, Great energy, Great Good Humour and not to be missed.
Martyn Wyndham-Read	Martyn Wyndham-Read has one of the finest voices and most sensitive delivery styles on the folk scene. His repertoire includes traditional British songs, Australian songs following his experiences working on the ranches there in his younger days and the works of many modern writers, particularly Graeme Miles. He also showcases songs by Faversham Folk Club's own Lawrence Dean.
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