Fèis Rois provide a platform for the tuition and performance of traditional Scottish music, song and dance in the Highlands of Scotland, and have done so since 1986. More info: http://www.feisrois.org/rois.html
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A maloya singer from Reunion island. Danyèl Waro and his band are great entertainers when it comes to catchy rhythms. The sound is so perfecly achieved with types of drums and unusual instruments. There is also a page at Danyèl WARO.
Elle Osborne was born on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire where she taught herself to sing and play the fiddle (and ride horses on the beach, although that’s another story). She was raised amongst musicians and wrote songs from an early age. English folk legend Barry Dransfield started her fiddle-singing (when she only asked him to glue her fiddle back together). She toured the world solo for five years and made a record called Testimony. 2011 has seen two new solo Elle releases - the ep Good Grief, and a new album So Slowly Slowly Got She Up.
Alasdair White born in 1983 on the Isle of Lewis is already well known as Battlefield Band’s virtuoso fiddle player joining the band in 2001. In these past years, his musicianship and tune making have had a great influence on the bands repertoire and continuing success, and playing with Battlefield Band has given him that wider audience that his music deserves. Having been highly regarded and talked about since his early teens, An Clàr Geal is his first solo album in 2006
Norma Christine Waterson (born 15th August 1939) is an English singer, best known as one of the original members of The Watersons, an english traditional music group. Other members of the group included her brother Mike Waterson and sister Lal Waterson, and in a later incarnatiosn of the group her husband Martin Carthy. Waterson was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. Her solo debut album, Norma Waterson, was produced by John Chelew and released by Hannibal Records in 1996, and was well-received (being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize)...
Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill are an Irish Folk/Traditional pairing who are based in the USA.
Irish fiddle virtuoso Martin Hayes and American guitarist Dennis Cahill possess a rare musical kinship, ranking them among the most memorable partnerships of our era. Together they have garnered international renown for taking traditional music to the very edge of the genre, holding listeners spellbound with their slow-building, fiery performances.
Huddie Ledbetter (23 January 1888-6 December 1949) was a leading American blues singer and guitarist. His songbook contained a large number of standard folk tunes, most adapted from previous sources. Though many of his posthumous releases list him as "Leadbelly," he himself spelled it "Lead Belly." This is also the usage on most of his original records, tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.
In a fast-changing Indonesia a new generation of musicians are taking on the task of redefining their rich musical heritage for the new millennium. 17-piece(!) ensemble SambaSunda bring together a dazzling array of instruments and influences to create a new style Gamelan orchestra and the most exciting musical voice out of the archipelago today. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Ismet Ruchimat, who started his career in 1989 in Gugum Gumbira's famous Jugala Orchestra, and bred on the creative grounds of Bandung's prominent STSI arts college...
