Chris While & Julie Matthews
Chris While & Julie Matthews at The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth
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Chris While & Julie Matthews
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About the show
CHRIS WHILE & JULIE MATTHEWS ANNOUNCED AS FEATURED ARTISTS IN BBC RADIO 2’S ‘21ST CENTURY FOLK’ PROJECT 2025
Celebrated singer-songwriters Chris While & Julie Matthews are proud to announce their participation in the BBC Radio 2 series 21st Century Folk, returning this summer for its third season. The acclaimed project brings together some of the UK’s finest songwriters with real-life stories from extraordinary individuals, and this year’s theme is Trains and Railways.
Chris and Julie were paired with Tom Yeo, a man with a remarkable life story: a foundling, left at Reading railway station as a newborn in 1965. Spending time with Tom and hearing about his emotional journey to discover his roots was a moving and unforgettable experience for the duo. Inspired by his courage and openness, Chris and Julie composed a brand new song in his honour.
Featuring - Chris While & Julie Matthews
In case they’ve so far passed you by, Chris While & Julie Matthews are the longest-lasting female duo in Britain and have played more than 3,000 gigs, appeared on over 100 albums, written hundreds of original songs and reached millions of people around the world. Now, 30 years after their debut, they sound as fresh and vital as ever!
This duo are two of the most respected names in British folk.
They are also part of female super group, Daphne’s Flight (Helen Watson, Melanie Harrold & Miranda Sykes) and Christmas band, St. Agnes Fountain with Fairport’s Chris Leslie.
Former members of the legendary Albion Band, they are an internationally successful song writing partnership. Their songs cover the full experiences of life, from injustice to freedom, and everything in between. Chris While on vocals, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, bodhran and percussion and Julie Matthews on vocals, piano, guitar, mandolin and bouzouki.
"The undisputed queens of British folk duos continue to come up with the goods.
1st class songs delivered with to die for harmonies, immaculate musicianship and melodies that lodge themselves in your brain"
The Guardian
it's a real honour just to be an audience member but I've had the added honour of standing on a stage with them playing along in the background, things like that I'll treasure forever, truly gifted human beings"
Richard Hawley
"Chris While is the best singer in England" Eddi Reader
Froots simply called Julie Matthews 'awesomely talented'.