Award winning all female traditional folk trio from Hertfordshire, making waves on the folk scene.

Folk trio based in Berkshire, UK

Mandy Shora - Vocals, flute, recorders, percussion
Colin Bailey - Vocals, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar
Steve Jackson - Vocals, guitar, acoustic and electric bass

Next exciting event : 8th December, HERTFORD.  Free entry Festival with some of the best acts from Folkstock Acoustic Festival which was on 21st September 2013, at Aldenham Country Park, Elstree, Hertfordshire. The flagship event for the Folkstock Arts Foundation. Shortlisted in the finals of the Festival Awards 2013!
The Foundation aims to give power to the elbow of new and aspiring acoustic folk and roots musicians to help them get a foothold in the live music arena
Bringing a musician into the heart of their community is what we are about,  developing links so that everyone gets a wonderful buzz from their local live music scene.
The Foundation will help the artists stream line their personal marketing and presentation skills, both on stage, on local radio and in the press.
Help them ' get their act together' and fulfil their dreams. 
It is not a management company and there are no contracts. There are however statements of intent and plans which will be tailored and then evaluated for all artists on one of the programmes of guided support.
Folkstock Arts Foundation is a community interest company and the Managing Director is Helen Meissner from Hertfordshire.
We are in the finals of the Hertfordshire Business Awards in the Business Person of the Year award and Business in the Community.
You can contact the foundation through folkstock@hotmail.co.uk.
Just launching Folkstock Records ( boutique label with in house production facility) and Folkstock Represents, a bespoke touring and bookings agency.

Breathing new life into local music - Love Life LIVE !


I am an alt-folk/gloomfolk artist based on the Grand Union Canal in Bedfordshire.
There are lots of fascinating stories to be found in the seemingly mudane shufflings of the people around us. I like to try and tell some of them. With a guitar. Sometimes a ukulele. I sing songs about outsiders, the forgotten ones, the haunted ones, the lonely ones.
Folk isn't just all about misty mornings in May and maidenheads, it's the little voices.

At the mo all recordings are made on a little boat with no leccy - please forgive creaks, bird song and general odd incidental noises.

you can contact me to offer gin, gigs or maybe a grim suburban gloom tale or two at: 

chyldeowlet@gmail.com

I'm also on twitter muttering benignly into the fray - https://twitter.com/ChyldeOwlet

or, indeed my face is a book -

www.facebook.com/pages/Chylde-Owlet/19107829961

'The Familiar' are a four piece alternative folk band comprising two brothers (Nick and Mark Stephenson) and two sisters (Cara and Anja Rodford) who all hail from St Albans, Hertfordshire. They grew up singing together in various groups before forming as a collective in August 2013.
Their music is an assortment of the folk songs they know and love by treasured artists such as The Band, Richard Thompson and The Beach Boys and also original material, often written in a similar vein, displaying romantic yet dark lyrical undertones by Nick and Mark Stephenson. Their unique four-part harmonies have proven to be the main-draw for audiences so far, exemplified by these new recordings. Produced by Steve Rodford. 

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