Tash Parker is a young songwriter and musician originally from the remote town of Kununurra in the North East Kimberley area of Western Australia. In 2007 Tash relocated to Melbourne to pursue her music career and she is now based in the small beach side community of Somers on the Mornington Peninsula. Tash has been writing, playing and performing her original songs since she first picked up an acoustic guitar in 2002.
Matthew Barber (born January 10, 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of indie pop and pop rock with folk and alternative country influences. Barber was born and grew up in Port Credit, which is part of Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, before moving to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University, where he volunteered at campus radio station CFRC-FM and performed at campus pubs. After graduating from Queen's, he went to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario for his master's degree in philosophy, and here he began to take his performing more seriously.
The FOS Brothers are Dave and Sam McCrory from East Belfast, N.Ireland, joined by Rom Dobbs an innovative drummer / percussionist from the South West of England.
Together they create a unique soundscape of acoustic music heavily influenced by their Irish roots.
"The FOS brothers have played on our stage at Glastonbury every year for the last 10 years and still pack the house with their superb musicianship and sublime vocals. I used to be a nun until I heard Sam sing - now I'm a monk!!
Take every chance that you get to see these guys - they are worth it every time"
A booze and smoke filled stumble through love and loss taking in swing, blues, rock, folk, avant garde Old House Playground is a two piece band based in Manchester UK. Their first album
A dynamic folk baritone, Nathan Rogers was born in 1980. His songs range from the semi-traditional (Three Fishers) to the quirky (The Ballad of William and John Gibson) to the passionate (Mary's Song). As of this date (2008), he has released one album (True Stories) containing primarily his own compositions. Perhaps not incidentally, his family is among one of the most famous folk music families in Canada: his father was the late Stan Rogers) and his uncle is Garnet Rogers.
"In recent months, 24-year-old UK guitarist James Blackshaw has burst fully-formed onto the folk underground, his remarkable talents already seeming at peak maturity... Blackshaw has established himself as an instrumentalist of astonishing grace and delicacy, seeming as though he's gobbled and digested whole the primitive folk canons of Takoma and Vanguard. Relying primarily on 12-string guitar, Blackshaw's intricate creations web together Robbie Basho's wayfaring mysticism, Ben Chasny's soft-focused acid tongues, and the rustic fantasias of Sandy Bull.
I mean business.
Centuries ago our ancestors had conquered half the globe and amazed the world with our culture and tradition. Now we the young generation will conquer once more with our music that is Folk Rock. We hail from Mongolia , Central Asia and we are the “ Алтан Ураг ”. “ALTAN URAG” can be translated or referred to as the Khan's kin. We play folk rock music and our band was formed in May, 2002. That same year we performed our first time gig at the “Roaring Hooves” international ethnic, contemporary music festival in Mongolia .
Tender vocals, effortlessly delivered with gossamer touch, mixed with achingly melancholic melodies and a lyrical insight that far outstrips expectation. His debut album ‘Last Time I Was There’ was released in 2006 on Pink Hedgehog Records (UK) and Dandyland (Germany) to critical and popular acclaim, supported by national and regional airplay and live dates across the UK and into Germany. He finished the year featured on Radio 1’s ‘In New Music we Trust’ and was named as one of Cargo Distribution’s top ten artists of 2006.
