Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar are a

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duo. Algar is a multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle, guitar, banjo, and percussion. They won the

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 ...

in 2013, and in 2014 won the Horizon award in the

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. They were nominated for the Best Duo award in 2015. As well as working as the duo, Russell and Algar have been involved in other projects. Russell put together ''Shake the Chains'', a project which brought together musicians including

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and

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to write and sing songs of togetherness, protest and community. Russell was also involved in a revival of

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's folk ballad opera ''

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''. Algar is also a member of Sam Kelly and The Lost Boys. Russell joined The Band of Love, who released their debut album ''Folk Fever'' in 2018.

Albums

* ''The Queen's Lover'' (2012) * ''The Call'' (2014) * ''The Silent Majority'' (2016) * ''Utopia and Wasteland'' (2018)

References

External links

Official website

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Greg, and Ciaran Algar Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English folk musical groups English musical duos Folk music duos