Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones

by Jo Freya

Bríd Harper

Inis

by Fiona Heywood

We met up with fiddler Bríd Harper at the Cup Of Tae traditional music festival in Ardara in Co. Donegal this May bank holiday weekend.

The Gilchrist Collective
Most truly yours, Aunt Anne …telling the story of important song collector, Anne Gilchrist
by Sue Burgess

Kevin Henderson
Travels with Mr Extra Item

Cara
…Grounded

Ian Bruce
…in conversation at home (where else?)

Martin Simpson

in conversation with Jo Freya

Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman

by Fiona Heywood

Onward, Christian!

Brian Peters checks out an exciting new face in English traditional music… Mossy Christian.

If we regard folk music as a spectrum, then Fay Hield leads an extraordinarily busy life at the performing end of that spectrum; another in the middle as an organiser; and at the other end as a well-respected academic in the music department of the University of Sheffield. These roles have never been mutually exclusive for we have performer-academics and organiser-musicians – but rarely have we had someone who fulfils all three roles.