Curated by Billy Bragg
The Opening Act
LEFTFIELD STAGE, GLASTONBURY FESTIVALImage credit: Gideon Mendel
Robb Johnson
Having set up his own label Johnson released his first album in 1985, and has since released over 30 albums. Widely recognised as one of the finest songwriters working in the UK today, Tony Benn said Johnson’s Winter Turns To..
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When it comes to Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly there are a few certainties on which you can rely. You’ll get a timeless hook lodged within every song and lyrics that tell a story without a single throwaway line, but..
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‘Boldly defiant and sharply individual. One of British Folk’s mightiest combinations’ MOJO Folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow are accomplished interpreters of everything from Massive Attack to traditional Irish ballads, but it’s their own boundless songwriting and exquisite harmonies that..
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‘This music holds such Beauty, Mat Skinner warms my Northern Heart’ Guy Garvey, Elbow Mat Skinner is Elbow’s guitar-tech man and singer/songwriter of Americana-drenched music and a growl that makes you hang onto his every word.
Find Out MoreBilly Bragg
Britain’s foremost political singer-songwriter, he has been making music for thirty years. Now in his fifties, neither the fight nor the fight songs have left Billy Bragg. Governments rise and fall, fashions come and go, pop stars are built up..
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At just 24 years old, this guitarist and concertina player’s signature is her powerfully expressive voice. Performing both traditional English folk songs and her own material she has, over the last five years, been nominated Folk Singer of the Year,..
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