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As you of England’s best instrumentalists, Roger Wilson has balanced a single career with a number of projects. An associate of the home Music group from 1994 until 1998, he documented two albums with Urban Folk, an organization he distributed to Pete Morton and Simon Edwards, and one recording having …

If the British folk revival from the 1960s had an individual “father” and guiding soul, after that Martin Carthy was it. Carthy’s impact transcends his capabilities, formidable though those are — aside from being probably one of the most talented acoustic guitarists, mandolinists, and general multi-instrumentalists operating the folk night …

A longtime champ of British music, songwriter, composer, raconteur, thinker, musician, and excellent singer Chris Hardwood was rather aptly described with the Irish Situations as “the renaissance guy of British folk.” While broadly admired and reputed by his peers over the U.K. folk picture, he was for quite some time …