Emily Portman’s 2010 debut album The Glamoury gained her two BBC Folk Award nominations and she fast gained a reputation for her unique songwriting. Her second album Hatchling is an off-kilter collection of contemporary lullabies, apple-tree wassails, and folk carols set against a backdrop of England’s country lanes and urban backstreets. She won best original song at the 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for the title track on the album. Emily performs live with the Emily Portman Trio, alongside the talented musicians Lucy Farrell (voice/viola/saw) and Rachel Newton (voice/harp/fiddle) who have become known for their ‘inventive arrangements using twinkling harp, brooding strings and chiming vocal parts’The Observer.

A singer who seems to have been born knowing how to carry a tune but with the rarer gift of knowing how to go straight to the heart of a song.Fay Hield’s debut solo album, Looking Glass, was released in September 2010 by prestigious folk label, Topic Records, and quickly earned her many accolades as well as a nomination for the Horizon Award at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her second album Orfeo saw the launch of a new line up The Hurricane Party.

‘Powerful material, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party rise to its challenges and serve it well’The Observer

Tom Moore, Archie Churchill-Moss and Jack Rutter hail from three distinct regions of the UK – they combine musical material, style and tradition from Norfolk, Somerset and Yorkshire respectively. Since 2009, Moore Moss Rutter have been playing as a trio, meticulously reworking English tunes and compositions into sets and songs. Often praised for musical maturity, it is their aim to carefully create soundscapes of mellow and precisely engineered beauty. The trio have performed widely, at venues and events ranging from Glastonbury, to folk clubs and living rooms. Moore Moss Rutter won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2011.

‘Three technically gifted teenagers with boy-band looks and banter to match turn a Hornpipe into a tent-filling dance number’The Guardian