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BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award
The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is an annual competition for young folk musicians in the United Kingdom. It was first awarded in 1988 as the Young Tradition Award, taking its present name in 1998. Recent winners of the award include Brighde Chaimbeul, Talisk and Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar. Competition The Young Tradition Award was a competition for young players of traditional music which was awarded annually between 1988 and 1996. BBC presenter Jim Lloyd wanted to get funding and publicity for young folk musicians in the same way that young classical musicians were helped by the BBC Young Musician award, and in 1988 he created the Young Tradition Award with a grant of £500 from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. The title was a tribute to the 1960s folk group The Young Tradition. The following year the award was adopted by the BBC programme ''Folk On 2'' which Lloyd presented. Over the next six years, competitors included Carlene Anglim, Damien Barber, Pauline Cato, MacLai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Jackson (singer)
Luke Jackson (born 19 June 1994) is a British singer-songwriter from Canterbury. He started playing guitar when he was ten, and made his first public performance at his primary school's leaving assembly He recorded his first album ''More than Boys'', produced by Martyn Joseph, when he was 18. He has been nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards "Horizon Award" for best emerging talent. He received a career development bursary from Help Musicians UK. Jackson has toured extensively, including four tours with Amy Wadge who co-wrote songs on Jackson's first EP ''Songs I Wrote With Amy.'' Jackson has also toured with Ed Sheeran and Marillion. Discography *More than Boys (2012) * Fumes and Faith (2014) *Tall Tales and Rumours (2016) *Solo , Duo , Trio (live) (2018) *Journals (2019) Compilation * ''PQ47'', Free CD for The Passport Q members, 2012. ** Run and Hide * With Martyn Joseph: ''PQ50'', Free CD for The Passport Q members, 2013.''The Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren MacColl
Lauren MacColl is a Scottish fiddle player from Fortrose. She has released three solo albums as well as a duet album with flute player Calum Stewart. MacColl is a member of the fiddle quartet RANT and contemporary folk band Salt House. Discography Solo albums *''When Leaves Fall'' (2007) *''Strewn With Ribbons'' (2009) *''The Seer'' (2017) *''Landskein'' (2020) With Heal & Harrow *''Heal & Harrow'' (2022) With Calum Stewart *''Wooden Flute & Fiddle'' (2012) With RANT *''RANT'' (2014) *''Reverie'' (2016) *''The Portage'' (2019) With Salt House *''Lay Your Dark Low'' (2013) *''Undersong'' (2018) *''Huam'' (2020) *''Working for Zeus (EP)'' (2021) Awards *BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award The BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award is an annual competition for young folk musicians in the United Kingdom. It was first awarded in 1988 as the Young Tradition Award, taking its present name in 1998. Recent winners of the award include Brighde ... 2004 * MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2009 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodega (Scottish Band)
Bodega was a Scottish band based in Glasgow, formed in March 2005. Its members met while they were studying together at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton, Scotland, from which they all graduated. The group was originally called Fiddle Dee Fiddle Dum. They disbanded at the end of 2011, citing the changing musical trajectories of the band's principal founding members. Membership The group had five members: * Gillian Chalmers (from Fraserburgh), border pipes, low whistle, and fiddle *Ross Couper (from Shetland), fiddle *Tia Files (from Oban), steel-string acoustic guitar, bass guitar, snare drum, djembe, and vocals * Norrie MacIver (from Carloway, Isle of Lewis), lead vocals, accordion, steel-string acoustic guitar, and djembe * June Naylor (from the Isle of Skye), gut-string clàrsach A sixth member, Sandie Forbes (fiddle and vocals) played with the group until 2006. The group's members were all born between the years of approximately 1987 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Henderson (musician)
Ewen Henderson (born 1987) gd, Eòghann Mac Eunraig is a multi-instrumentalist folk musician from Fort William in Scotland. Musical career Henderson comes from a musical family, with his sisters Megan (of Breabach) and Ingrid and brother Allan (formerly of Blazin' Fiddles) in particular being musicians of renown. He started learning the fiddle at the age of five under the tutelage of Aonghas Grant Snr. Besides fiddle, Ewen regularly performs on bagpipe, penny whistle and piano. He is also fluent in Scottish Gaelic and sings in the language. He has been a member of Battlefield Band (2010–2014), the Pneumatic Drills and Skipinnish but is currently most often found performing with Mànran, the band he helped found in 2010. His Scottish Gaelic singing has been aired on BBC Alba broadcasts. Since 2015, Ewen has also performed regularly with World music pioneers the Afro Celt Sound System. Henderson is in high demand as a composer and created the soundtrack to the 2016 BBC Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Orders (band)
Last Orders is a four-piece folk band originating from Newcastle upon Tyne and Cumbria. The four members of the band met when they were all members of Folkestra, a youth folk ensemble at the Sage Gateshead. The band consists of Joe O'Connor, David Jones, Matthew Jones and Kevin Lees. Last Orders won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2007 on 1 December 2006. As part of their prize, the band performed at the 2007 Cropredy Festival, Towersey Village Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival. Last Orders released their self-titled debut album with Fellside Records Fellside Recordings is a British independent record label, formed by Paul Adams and Linda Adams in 1976 in Workington, Cumbria, and still run by them. Paul Adams toured semi-professionally with the Barry Skinner Folk Group in his teens. He an ... on 30 July 2007. They are mentioned in the Mick Herron book 'Smoke and Whispers' as well as an alternative incarnation 'XYZ'. Discography * ''Last Orders'' References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogan Mehmet
Dogan Mehmet (born in Brighton, England, on 31 March 1990) is a British stage performer and musician of Turkish Cypriot descent. Mehmet writes a mixture of English and Turkish Cypriot folk songs and tunes. He was a finalist in 2008's BBC Young Folk Awards; in the same year his EP "Unlimited" was released and his album "Gypsyhead" in November 2009. Work started on his second album in the snowy winter of 2010 and 'Outlandish' was subsequently released in 2012. Mehmet attended Newcastle University to study Folk and Traditional Music from 2008-2013 and between this he was a member of the percussion group STOMP. As of early 2013, Mehmet joined the London West End theatre production War Horse The first evidence of horses in warfare dates from Eurasia between 4000 and 3000 BC. A Sumerian illustration of warfare from 2500 BC depicts some type of equine pulling wagons. By 1600 BC, improved harness and chariot designs ... as songman. References External linksOff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siobhan Miller
Siobhan Miller is a Scottish folk singer and the only three-time winner of Best Singer at the Scots Trad Music Awards (in 2011, 2013, and 2017). She also won the Best Traditional Track at the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and has frequently performed at Celtic Connections The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January. Featuring over 300 concerts, ceilidhs, talks, free events, late night sessions and workshops, the festival focuses on the roots of tra .... Discography *''In a Bleeze'' (2008) (with Jeana Leslie) *''Shadows Tall'' (2010) (with Jeana Leslie) *''Flight of Time'' (2014) *''Strata'' (2017) *''Mercury'' (2018) *''All Is Not Forgotten'' (2020) *''Bloom'' (2022) References Scottish folk singers 21st-century Scottish women singers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Vertical Records artists {{Scotland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Ward (musician)
Lucy Victoria Ward is an English singer-songwriter from Derby, England. She performs, with a voice described as expressive and powerful,"Ward has an expressive, powerful voice. She also has an outsize personality, like a latter-day Judy Henske, and a well honed ability to work an audience." traditional English folk songs as well as her own material. Three of her albums, ''Adelphi Has to Fly'', ''Single Flame'' and ''I Dreamt I Was a Bird'', have been critically acclaimed and have each received four-starred reviews in the British national press. Early life and education The youngest of six children, Lucy Ward grew up in Littleover, Derbyshire. She went to St Peter's Junior School in Littleover, and Littleover Community School. She started playing guitar and wrote her first song at the age of 14, and soon afterwards performed live for the first time. After performing at open mic nights across the Midlands she put her name forward for the BBC Young Folk Awards at the age of 18, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Henwood
Megan Henwood (born 29 October 1987) is an English singer-songwriter from Oxfordshire. Early life Born Megan Rosemary Henwood in Reading, Berkshire, England, Henwood grew up in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Her first public performance was at the age of 9 at the Henley Youth Festival. As a teenager she performed both as a solo artist and with her band on the local live circuit. At the age of 18, she travelled around Europe, Thailand, India, Malaysia, and Nepal – returning to the latter twice to record and perform with some of the country's musicians. She has since supported the London-based Child Action Nepal charity by donating profit from record sales. Career Henwood has contributed to music therapy sessions and in 2010 she was awarded a Sue Ryder Care "Woman of Achievement" award as Performer of the Year. In 2009, Henwood – along with her saxophonist brother Joe – won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. She has performed at events such as the Cambridge Folk Festival, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrivick Sisters
The Carrivick Sisters are twins Laura and Charlotte Carrivick from South Devon, England, who perform as a musical duo. They combine original songs, based on old stories, legends and folklore from their local area, with American bluegrass and old time music. The Carrivick Sisters have been performing as a duo since 2006 and turned professional in 2007. They were finalists for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2010. Their 2013 album ''Over the Edge'' featured Blair Dunlop on harmony vocals and, like their previous album ''From the Fields'', was produced by Josh Rusby (brother of folk singer Kate Rusby Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English English folk music, folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Sometimes called the "Barnsley Nightingale", she has headlined various British folk festivals, an ...). Discography References External links Official website 2006 establishments in England British identical twins Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gibb (musician)
David Gibb (born 1 July 1990) is a children's musician, songwriter and author from Belper, Derbyshire. He was a finalist of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2011, as well as winning the 'Highly Commended' prize at the Young Storyteller of the Year Awards the same year. Since 2014 he has focused on making music for children and families, as well as writing stories for children including ''Too Many Bubbles'', which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2020. Career Early career Gibb began performing and writing songs as a solo artist after finishing school in 2008. After being introduced to hip-hop produceBaby Jby a mutual friend, he went on to feature as a guest artist on J's 2008 record ''Baby Food'', including a live session for Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1. In 2009, Gibb released his debut album, ''Apple In My Teeth,'' on Baby J's own label, Baby J Enterprises. Following a nomination for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2011, Gibb began performing as part of the duo ''Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
