Composers
Sarah Allen
Sarah is best known as a founder member of award-winning flute-based Anglo-Irish quartet, Flook, who will be celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2025.
Helen Bell
Helen Bell is a singer-songwriter, composer and violist. Amongst various other musical activities, she runs a website which helps violists to access traditional music (folkviola.co.uk), where she publishes arrangements of traditional tunes as well as her own compositions.
Pam Bishop
Pam Bishop plays duet concertina and guitar, and leads the Mad Moll folk dance band. She has been influential in getting many people to participate in folk activities by organising music and song workshops and sessions, by setting up and leading the Moseley Village Band for twelve years, by organising folk dances and ceilidhs and by tutoring at concertina weekends in Witney, Swaledale and Kilve.
Mairéad Carey
Mairéad Carey is an Irish traditional musician from West Cork, Ireland, and plays the fiddle, flute, tin whistle and piano. She holds a BA degree in Irish and Music and an MA in Ethnomusicology from University College Cork.
Susie Cochrane
Susie has taught music for many years in both primary and secondary schools but is currently teaching French at Glendale Middle school and music in several local primary schools.
Zöe Conway
Irish fiddle player, Zoë Conway, is a prodigious talent, equally at home in both traditional Irish and classical styles.
Marina Dodgson
Marina Dodgson is a fiddle player from the North East of England. She is one of three directors of Phoenix Folk, which promotes participation in traditional music both locally and online.
Clíodhna Donnellan
Cli Donnellan is an Irish traditional musician, producer, curator and creative arts facilitator living and working in her native East Clare. She has been involved in the creative arts sector for over 20 years.
Karen Gledhill
Karen Gledhill is an actress/musician. She lives in Cornwall and currently plays accordion with two orchestras and is composing new material for accordion.
Bryony Griffith
Bryony Griffith is one of England’s most highly regarded fiddle players and distinctive singers with a passion for delving through the tune and song manuscripts of her native Yorkshire.
Claire Gullan
Fiddler Claire, originally from Aberdeenshire has been based in Glasgow since 2000.
Jane Harbour
Jane Harbour is a composer and musician living in Bristol, England. She is the driving force and main composer with Spiro, who she formed in 1993, playing violin and viola. She was classically trained in the Suzuki method and studied with Shinichi Suzuki in Japan, and became inspired by Bach, Bartok, Britten and Stravinsky.
Jacquelyn Hynes
Jacquelyn is best known as a flute player but also plays piano and sax and composes. Her album “Silver and Wood” was released to critical acclaim in 2014. She has performed world-wide and toured as guest artist with Liam Ó Maonlaí.
Ali Jones
Alison Jones has played fiddle for many bands including The Barely Works. Swansea born, she now lives in Exeter where she plays with Spin 2, teaches fiddle and runs a community folk band, Newtown roots band, for which she creates fun and interesting arrangements.
Maeve McCann
Maeve is an accomplished folk musician, composer, scientist and writer. She plays Whistle, Uilleann pipes and Bodhran.
Kim MacLennan
Hailing from Blairbuie on the Coigach peninsula of Wester Ross, Kim is an accomplished accordion and bagpipe player with a background deeply rooted in both the pipe band and traditional music communities.
Alana NicAonghais
Alana MacInnes is a piper and traditional musician hailing from South Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides.
Sarah Northcott
Sarah is a fiddler, composer, music teacher, community worker, project manager and proofreader living in Tweedsmuir in the western Scottish Borders.
Catherine Robson
Trish Santer
Trish has been playing music of one sort or another since a small child: mainly piano during her long-gone schooldays, but later taking up guitar, bodhran and button accordion, and she enjoys singing and song-writing too.
Vicki Swan
Vicki studied at the Royal College of Music on the double bass. She also plays the various types of bagpipes, flute, recorder, piano and nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed-fiddle)
Margaret Watchorn
Margaret Watchorn grew up in Northumberland amid a rich local and family heritage of music, dances, songs and stories, many learnt from her parents and grandparents.
Jane Williams
Originally from the UK, Jane now lives and works in Norway. She grew up with and around folk music and started composing very early on. Her influences are all the greats from the 70’s and 80’s. Jane’s main instrument is guitar and she also plays harp, fiddle, keyboard and whistle.
Martha Woods
Martha Woods is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Cornwall.
