United Bible Studies is an experimental and improvisational folk band from Ireland. There are a few core members, and a host of incidental contributors on both the live performances and regular albums. United Bible Studies is part of the Deserted Village music collective.
Noah and the Whale is an alternative/folk group formed in Twickenham, London, England in 2006. They consist of Charlie Fink (vocals, guitar), Tom Hobden (fiddle), Matt Urby (bass), Doug Fink (drums) and, on occasion, Laura Marling (vocals, guitar). They released their debut album "Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down" - which contains the UK Top 10 hit "5 Years Time" - in August of 2008.
Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea released their critically acclaimed ARIA nominated album Dead Wood Falls in 2006. They have toured with the likes of Josh Pyke, Ben Lee, Missy Higgins, Jose Gonzalez and MIa Dyson and played Homebake, Queenscliff, Falls, Feel Good and Harvest. For all the latest on this hot new songwriter and band go to www.jencloher.com
Davide Van De Sfroos, al secolo Davide Bernasconi (Monza, 11 maggio 1965)
Bad Books, simply put, is Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra. A true accident if there ever was one; Bad Books was never an intended nor calculated side project of Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Though the two musicians have collaborated and performed together on tour and within the Favorite Gentlemen community of artists for years now, the genesis of Bad Books came from a simple idea to fill space and time off the road by collaborating on a small batch of songs together at the top of the year.
Linda Thompson (born Linda Pettifer) started her singing career in the 1960s, doing advertising jingles for money and singing in folk clubs for enjoyment. She changed her name to Linda Peters, and was romantically linked to Martin Carthy before working with Richard Thompson, whom she married in 1972. As part of Richard & Linda Thompson she sang on a string of critically acclaimed albums until a bitter split in 1982.
At least 5 bands are using the name "Ursa Major". 1) Mined out of the clay of Pennsylvania, USA, Ursa Major began playing music in the year 2008 AD with nothing but a mandolin, a 6-string picker and a bloody banjo, with lonesome hearts set on bluegrass music and the sound of the common folk. Since that time the music has evolved, but the feeling remains the same. Now based out of Pittsburgh and armed with electric guitars, foot-stompin’ drums, bass attuned to the the Eternal Groove, and the same old bloody banjo, Ursa Major has evolved into an energetic swing of folk and doo-wop soulfulness.
Over the past three albums and five years, Toronto’s Celtic rock band Enter The Haggis has found itself at the center of a grassroots success story ever teetering on the brink of mainstream success. From playing Celtic festivals to headlining them, and from the festival circuit to selling out multiple nights in rock venues, ETH has blazed a path with heavy and almost constant touring up and down the East Coast, to Canada, the West Coast and back again, winning over success one fan, one town, one region at a time.
Tom Robinson (b. 1st June 1950) is an English musician. Born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, Robinson was the founding member of the Tom Robinson Band, an overtly political band with several hits in the 1970s, such as "2-4-6-8 Motorway" and "Power in the Darkness". Robinson's other best known song is "Glad to be Gay", and he was an outspoken hero of the gay movement in the 1970s. In the 1980s he fronted Sector 27, another highly political rock band, which released one album and left Robinson virtually bankrupt.