Katie Melua's unusual voice and easy-listening jazz style has won her hordes of fans across the world. Hitting the big time with 'The Closest Thing To Crazy', released in 2003, she has gone on to have three hit albums and was the best-selling UK female artist of 2004 and 2005.
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Take a group of the hottest contemporary fiddle players from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and you've got Blazin' Fiddles on your hands. During a performance, the audience has a rare opportunity to hear pieces featuring the regional styles of each fiddler followed by all hands jumping in for a wonderful explosion of music. Fiddles and bows blaze away with guitar and piano for one of the most exciting and memorable fiddle ensembles ever to take the stage.
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The Baghdaddies pump out an eclectic fusion of rhythms and melodies plucked from around the world that are guaranteed to raise your spirits! Festival favourites, The Baghdaddies play Balkan gypsy with Middle Eastern flavours, shades of klezmer and tango, jazz and reggae plus a touch of ska - all laced with funky dance grooves. 'One of the most danceable bands on this or any other planet' (Trades Club, Hebden Bridge).
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One third of a capella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson and a fine keyboard player. He combines versatility as a singer with a deeply passionate mastery of time and harmony as an accompanist.
Winner of a hat trick of awards in the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, John is widely regarded as one of the country's leading songwriters. His warm, tender-hearted and distinctive vocals remain among the most expressive and soulful in English music. John will be remembered as Daniel Hagman in the ITV Sharpe series for which he also co-wrote the music.
Juldeh Camara, from the group Ifang Bondi, is an exponent of the one-string Gambian fiddle-like instrument called the Riti.
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Robert Plant's guitarist and Tinariwen's producer.
Listed on Ents24.com since: Sep 2004
Playing not only Irish drinking songs but also English drinking songs and Scottish drinking songs, a whole range of musical idioms from a whole range of musical idiots. Featuring Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe.
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