Folk music marketer/booking agent/programmer/writer. Runs a newsletter called @thefolkforecast.bsky.social.
Website - lucyshields.com
Comedy writing credits - https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucy-shields/
Concert & Festival promoter. Folk by the Oak and Spell Songs.
Gig photographer for nearly 35 years
Mum, GP&medical educator, cellist/singer (classical, early music, folk), gardener. Loves nature and humans. Cat and chicken carer. Learning Irish, Welsh, and B/C accordion. Runs slowly, wild swims, cycles. Politics - look after the vulnerable.
Your definitive guide to contemporary sound art in the British Isles.
pinkloudspeaker.substack.com
We sing truth to power! Rehearsing in 17 towns and cities and online, with 900 singers and counting. Coming to a fossil-funding bank near you.
Folk music tradition, evolution, interpretation, sights, sounds, passions, venues, collaborations, gatherings, festivals. And more...
Posts gathered and assembled with love by @petelawrence.bsky.social
Campfire firestarter, Big Chill co-founder, Paros resident, free spirit, cloud watcher, music dabbler, folkie, trailblazer, writer, cider fan, broadcaster, catalyst, nexus connector...
Developing a thriving community-led creative quarter and community gardens on the banks of the tidal Lea in East London www.codydock.org.uk
I do music and that | Director @thenestcollective.bsky.social | Warhammer dad (mostly AoS) | Lefty snowflake | He/him
FRSA. Media Revolution steering group; cofounder of MP Watch and Music Declares; former Green Party councillor: focusing on media disinformation. #TellTheTruth #MediaRevolution
https://muckrack.com/tom-hardy-17 https://bylinetimes.com/author/tomhardy
Presenting + promoting the best new music. https://linktr.ee/OCMevents
www.ocmevents.org
Conservation charity bringing everyone together for the love of trees 🌳
What if we created the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling and horse-riding network for Britain and Ireland? Up for helping?
linktr.ee/slowwaysuk
www.slowways.org
Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove on stage,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
University of Reading. We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Actor & Ecologist
http://www.davidoakes.co.uk
🚂 Levin in ‘Anna Karenina’ @ Chichester FT
https://www.cft.org.uk/events/anna-karenina
⚔️ ‘Vikings: Valhalla’ on Netflix
🎙️ Hosts www.treesacrowd.fm
🔬 Student of Evolutionary & Behavioural Ecology
The official National Park Authority BlueSkySocial account, proudly delivering for Nature, Climate and People.
https://linktr.ee/SouthDowns
Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
We’re the Campaign to Protect Rural England. We shape and promote solutions for the sustainable use of land to protect and regenerate the countryside.
www.cpre.org.uk
Botanist, photographer, weaver
Talking about nature, politics, education, photography, writing, ethnobotany, weaving, interdisciplinary things. Just chaos tbh.
MSc RGB Kew, MA U of T
Dual 🇬🇧🇨🇦
📍New Forest National Park
BBC enviro journalist, writing & editing for Future and Earth. Reviews in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social . Prev @newstatesman.com , AFP & others. (Recently returned from mat leave)
Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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Welcome to the official Hampstead Heath Bluesky feed.
Bringing you the latest news, pics and updates from the Heath.
All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Queen of the Whirl! Trad/prog singer, violinist, writer & stage/film composer, available for radio/TV presenting/arts curation. Pres. EFDSS. Feminist. LGBTQ+ ally.
Community choir dedicated to revitalising communal singing with activism and empowerment at its heart.
Part of The Nest Collective (@thenestcollective.bsky.social)
Autumn Term: https://thenestcollective.co.uk/events/fire-choir-autumn-term
Keep an open mind on the issues that matter. In print weekly, online daily.
Subscribe to The Week: https://subscription.theweek.co.uk/?channel=organicsocial1
The leading Mental Health awareness community and store on Bluesky!
Check out our 20 days campaign 👉: https://www.bonfire.com/store/happy-being/?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=store_page_share&utm_campaign=happy-being&utm_content=default
BBC’s Social Media Investigations Correspondent | Radio 4 podcasts | @BBCPanorama & current affairs | #Americast host | ARIAS & British Podcast best host
Broken folk experimentalists. If you're into weird folk music with drums and drones you might like this: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/
A musical evolution of The Lost Words & The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris; featuring Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter & Jim Molyneux
www.thelostwords.org/spell-songs
I guess my short CV is: Albums, scores, producer, DJ, booker prize judge 2024, Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award, 9 hon. doctorates, patron PRS foundation, 24 awards and a CBE
Independent Booking Agency, Management & Festival Organisers (Beautiful Days 20+ years)
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Cellist + composer, debut album ‘Land’ out now on Hudson Records. Touring with Cara Dillon and Martin Simpson / co-director Up North Session Orchestra / remote cello sessions
Our unique virtual gigs bring artists and audiences together live and in real time; music, chat, applause, and a surprisingly intimate feel.
@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social chief scientist, policy director
View are all my own, except those I've borrowed
Musicians. Folk.
https://linktr.ee/knappdivermusic
Musician & songwriter from Cavan, Ireland. ‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right’ out now on Rough Trade Records. Account run by management. Lisaoneill.ie
Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out Apr2: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Folky, lefty, beardy - all the clichés.
Designer | Writer | Artist | Campaigner for Equality & Diversity | Sussex, UK
martinrowsell.com
Audio maker at Rhubarb Rhubarb of podcasts (Folk on Foot, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, Voices of British Ballet, The Sound of Anger) and radio. Black hearted in Battersea.
The cultural pulse of King's Cross 📍
🔗 https://linktr.ee/kingsplace
The UK's only trade union for musicians
A community 36,500 strong
‼️ Urgent enquiry? Contact the MU at https://theMU.org/contact
🎨 Cover art by Malini Chakrabarty
Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Professional Musician. Plays in duos with Jenn Butterworth and Stevens & Pound doing harmonica and accordion things.
Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Broadcaster. Host of Last Word on BBC Radio 4 and my own multi award winning Folk on Foot podcast (@folkonfoot.com). Posts all personal.
Hurdy-gurdy maker based in Ramsgate UK and in Cassel, Northern France.
Facteur de Vielles à roue à Ramsgate, Angleterre et Cassel, Nord de la France.
www.claire-dugue.com
mail@claire-dugue.com
+44 1843 588 470
Photographer, former music biz guy in US, Brazil, UK, Berlin. Grammy-nominated producer, writer. Founder EMI Hemisphere, General Director of Womex, General Director of National Recording Preservation Foundation.
An uplifting, family friendly summer festival of the finest folk, roots and acoustic music in beautiful leafy parkland.
Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire, UK
Sunday 19 July 2026
www.folkbytheoak.com
FoEE folk in Brussels, campaigning for resilient & just societies in harmony with the planet.
Follow for stories, actions & insights on social & environmental justice - from the 💚 of the EU to communities across Europe friendsoftheearth.eu
Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Music of substance.
mojo4music.com
Independent Music Journal - KLOFmag.com Substack: https://klofmag.substack.com/
Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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We’re the national library of the UK.
FolkEast is about coming together for three days to fill your boots with music, food, ale, art, family and friends on Suffolk's Sotterley Estate. With space to breathe and room to roam, discover a place where time stands still and memories are nourished.
Morsels of #folklore from our Ancient Isles curated with love from real books (mostly aged and odiferous) by Elizabeth-Jane Baldry, harpist, composer, woodland keeper.
#nemophilist #pigwiggenwood #dartmoor #reenchantment
Monthly newsletter featuring online gigs and the latest news in UK folk music. Edited by @lucyrshields.bsky.social
Londoner. Writer. Music geek. Food labeller.
Keen environmentalist and traveller and trying to make those two not contradict.
The national organisation for folk music, song and dance in England. Based at Cecil Sharp House
theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Award-winning arts centre at the heart of folk, home to efdss.bsky.social since 1930.
linktr.ee/cecilsharphouse
Composer, Arranger, Online Sessions, Director everygoodboy.co.uk and other stuff...
The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
stream the new album Eye to the Ear
https://found.ee/eyetotheear
Legendary 11 piece folk big band … follow for tour news and individual member updates.
Magazine Editor, Radio Show Host, Supporter Of Music, Social Commentator, Photographer
Bringing people together to celebrate global traditions through extraordinary music. Join us at our events in London & Brighton!
https://linktr.ee/nestfolk
Singer / writer / animator / serial collaborator on @olirecords
All things: http://linktr.ee/marrywaterson
Musician and field botanist
Podcast about the weird history of traditional folk songs and folky chat from presenter Jenny Shaw. Random nerdiness. Handeddown.buzzsprout.com
Features, reviews and listings for folk and roots music in and around London. Contributions and review CDs welcome – see http://folklondon.co.uk
Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Co-Host of The Trawl Podcast https://linktr.ee/thetrawlpodcast | @TimesRadio | @jeremyvineon5
John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers …
I'm English ... not an American.
Multi Instrumentalist- producer - composer …. Manc Irish - Irish fiddle … www.gerrydiver.com
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2012509620/lisa-knapp-gerry-diver-brand-new-duo-album-hinterland
medieval history, football, DCFC, LOFC, night sky, art, OFMD, polar exploration, whiskers on kittens
Singerfolksinger. Fiddle player. Songwriter. Composer. Digger & Delver.
Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming Sept 2027…
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In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Writer, sub-editor, pizza-maker. The Guardian, MOJO, Loose Lips Sink Ships. Books. The good shit. steviechick.com
Journalist on culture and news, author of The Sound Of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, radio programme maker, public arts project leader. Ten Sunday Spells for you every week on juderogers.substack.com
