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1. Cerys Matthews (Wales) Ar Ben Waun Tredegar
Cerys Matthews has long been performing and championing Welsh song, her album TIR is the best selling Welsh language folk album of all time. This song comes from her follow- up, Hullabaloo. This year her BBC Radio 6 pro- gramme won the Sony Award for Best Music Broadcaster and her Penguin book Hook Line And Singer was a top 3 national bestseller.
Contact: Rainbow City Broadcasting Ltd.
info@rainbowcity.co
2. Lokkhi Terra (England) Bhromor Koiyo
Lokkhi Terra are a London-based collective combining Bangladeshi folk tunes with Afro- beat and Cuban rumba, who have been impressing audiences across the genres – from Womad to Ronnie Scott’s, La Linea festi- val to headlining the closing ceremony of the South Asian Games.
Contact: Kishon Khan, Funkiwala Records.
kishonster@gmail.com
3. Lau (Scotland) Torsa
Lau are one of modern UK folk music’s most innovative bands: brilliant musicians, thrilling performers and free-thinking visionaries. Their latest album Race The Loser has become their best selling and most acclaimed release to date, include five stars from The Guardian, a shortlist nomination for Scottish Album of the Year 2013, an appearance on the presti- gious BBC music TV show Later… and the award for Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for a fourth time.
Contact: Tom Rose, Reveal Records.
tomreveal@mac.com
4. Emily Portman (England) Hinge Of The Year
Using her innocent sounding voice to lure you into a disconcerting world of dark imaginings, cruel deeds and surreal fairy-tales drawn from the subterranean netherworld of folklore that still permeates from the cracks in the concrete mundanity of the modern urban landscape, Emily Portman sings, plays concertina, ukulele and banjo and writes songs that interpret and mould British folk traditions into a platform for her own storytelling. Her second album, Hatchling, won her a BBC Folk Award.
Contact: Emily Portman, Furrow.
info@emilyportman.co.uk
5. Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita (Wales) Ceffylau
Internationally renowned Welsh classical harp - ist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora master Seckou Keita have combined forces to explore their traditions. Both are inspired improvis- ers, moving through each other’s musical worlds with a harmonious, empathetic com- munication. This is a spellbinding shared musical journey between two world-class vir- tuosi blending two completely different musical cultures and creating something sub- lime, relevant and entirely new.
Contact: Drum, Astar Artes Recordings.
drum@astarartesrecordings.co.uk
6. 9Bach featuring Côr Penrhyn (Wales) Ffarwel
9Bach’s debut album heralded a bold new direction for Welsh folk songs, with the ex - quisite, silken tones of Lisa Jên's voice impart- ing a new emotional life to some venerable traditional ballads, against a subtly unfolding sonic landscape. Ffarwel is taken from 9Bach’s soon-to-be-released second album Tincian. Côr Penrhyn, who feature on it, are one of Wales’ oldest choirs, and were formed by working quarrymen in the late 1800s.
Contact: Alan James, Hold Tight Management.
ajlime@yahoo.co.uk
7. Kan (Scotland) One Two Three
Brian Finnegan and Aidan O’Rourke, front men with two revered bands of the folk scene, Flook and Lau, join forces with Ian Stephenson and Jim Goodwin, two of the brightest stars in rhythm and accompani- ment, to carve out a unique and daring new sound. Kan seeks to create music from one complete world-influence, to reflect Celtic music’s present-day identity.
Contact: Ian Stephenson, Kan Music.
ianstephenson@me.com
8. Family Atlantica (England) Tamunangue Blues
Between Nigeria, Ghana, Great Britain and Venezuela, Soundway Records’ Family Atlantica make a mesmerising kaleidoscope of Afro-Atlantic culture swirled into a psychedelic journey of tropical music, driven by deep organic rhythms. Stitching together disparate styles with a common ancestry, Family Atlantica have created an album that reunites rhythms and motifs that have ebbed and flowed back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean over the centuries.
Contact: Joss Yerbury, Soundway Records.
joss@kartelcreative.co.uk
9. Fiona Hunter (Scotland) The Bleacher Lass o’ Kelvinhaugh/ Fiona Hunter’s
Fiona Hunter is one of Scotland’s foremost traditional singers, fast garnering a reputa- tion as a highly gifted song interpreter. Fiona has been singing as part of renowned folk song group Malinky for the best part of a decade. Her time with the group has seen them win many accolades including the pres- tigious Folk Band Of The Year award at the 2010 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. Fiona has also been twice nominated in the Scots Singer Of The Year category at the awards. 2013 will see the release of her highly antici- pated debut solo album.
Contact: Mike Vass, Rusty Squash Horn Records.
mikevassmusic@gmail.com
10. Auntie Flo (Scotland) La Samaria
Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, hails from Goa by way of Glasgow, but now resides in Lon- don. He burst onto the scene with his debut EP which won him fans across the musical spectrum, plays from Radio 1 and full support from the DJ A-list. His unique Afro-futurist sound encompasses classic house, disco, tech- no, electronica influences alongside Afrobeat, kwaito, cumbia, South American rhythms and outsider music from all around the world. His debut album Future Rhythm Machine has been nominated for Scottish Album Of The Year.
Contact: Brian d’Souza, Huntleys and Palmers.
Briandsouza1@gmail.com
11. We Banjo 3 (Ireland) Martin Wynnes #2/ Martin Wynnes #1/ The Coalminer
Award-winning quartet We Banjo 3 from Gal- way reveal the banjo’s rich legacy and roots. Enda & Fergal Scahill and Martin & David Howley are among the most celebrated and distinguished young musicians in Ireland today. They play with swing and soul, effort- lessly combining the best of Irish and blue- grass banjo music and song, mining the rich vein of the American old-time tradition and thoroughly reinventing the banjo band sound. Their debut album Roots Of The Banjo Tree was released to critical acclaim.
Contact: Enda Scahill, We Banjo 3.
webanjo3@gmail.com
Family Atlantica
12. iZem (Ireland) Lost And Found
iZem started writing music during a seven-year long musical adventure through Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Portugal and Ireland. His unique hybrid sound joins the dots between cutting- edge beatmaking and post-tropical influ- ences. His first EP, released in 2011, featured Brazilian and Irish vocalists and was heavily played by radios and DJs around the globe. iZem is also the co-founder and the music director of the multilingual internet radio Groovalizacion –
www.groovalizacion.com – where he hosts a bi-weekly radio show.
Contact: Jérémie Aoussaid Kerouanton.
djizem@groovalizacion.com
13. Ghazalaw (Wales) Tum Nazar Se (SaNiDhaPa) / Cyfri'r ser
Ghazalaw is a fusion of Welsh folk songs and Indian Ghazal, both of which evolve from ancient poetic forms that share sur- prising affinities. These are harmoniously embodied in the meeting of the Mumbai singer Tauseef Akhtar and Cardiff singer- songwriter Gwyneth Glyn, whose voices blend seamlessly on songs of both worlds to the accompaniment of Welsh harp, Indian violin, tabla, guitar and harmonium. Their first album successfully weaves two seem- ingly disparate traditions together into a mutually inspiring whole.
Contact: Emmanuelle de Decker, Gatecrash.
emma@gatecrash.in
14. Georgia Ruth (Wales) Codi Angor
Harpist, singer and songwriter Georgia Ruth’s debut album, Week Of Pines, is a collection of traditional Welsh ballads and her own com- positions in Welsh and English, delivered by her clear-toned voice and idiosyncratic harp style, which owes more to the finger-style playing of guitarists such as Bert Jansch or Meic Stevens than her classical education. Georgia’s haunting voice has earned her favourable comparisons with the melancholy folk sirens of the late ’60s
Contact: Nerys Lloyd, Sain (Recordiau) Cyf-Gwymon Label.
nerys@sainwales.com
15. Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson (Scotland) Old
Two of the fieriest talents in contemporary Celtic piping, Scotland’s Ross Ainslie and Tyrone-born Jarlath Henderson first met back in 2003. The pair’s unique partnership exploded onto the scene with 2009’s debut album, Partners In Crime. Radio 2 Musician Of The Year Award nominee Ross then per- formed with Salsa Celtica, The Treacherous Orchestra and Dougie MacLean whilst Jar- lath became a doctor. Now back recording and performing, a new album is due for release late summer 2013.
Contact: Lisa Whytock, Active Events.
lisa@activeevents.org.uk
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