English Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social The national organisation for folk music, song and dance in England. Based at Cecil Sharp House
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social 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
Oxford Folk Festival @oxfordfolkfest.bsky.social 16th-18th April 2027 🌾
Traditional and folk music and dance events across Oxford!
Please use the form on our website for enquiries ➡️ https://oxfordfolkfest.org.uk/
Everyman Folk Club @everymanfolkclub.bsky.social A traditional folk club with a booked guest, floor singers, and always a warm welcome on the last Friday of the month, in Suffolk UK.
#everymanfolkclub #everymanfolk
#folkclub #folkmusic #suffolk
www.everymanfolkclub.co.uk
LANKUM @lankumdublin.bsky.social GHOST TOWN…
https://lankum.ffm.to/ghosttown
John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus
Co-founder of Acid Horse
Writer/Editor
Anti-Fascist
Listen to Nurse With Wound
https://linktr.ee/jahduran
Stick in the Wheel @stickinthewheel.bsky.social Experiments in London roots music.
Working class artists.
@noodsradio residents
Katherine Priddy @katherinepriddy.bsky.social UK Singer | Songwriter | Guitarist.
The new album 'These Frightening Machines' - out now. 🔥
https://linktr.ee/katherinepriddy
grumpyselkie.bsky.social @grumpyselkie.bsky.social Northumbrian Rapper sword dancer and tudor reenactor with a love of cold water swimming and camping
Ciarán Bradley @ciaranbradley.bsky.social Irish. Music-y code-y fella.
Dr C B Rose @rosiewomble.bsky.social Retired researcher (PhD in psychology/flood risk management); folk musician; inland waterway enthusiast; LGBTQI+ ally. Getting back into gardening and sewing now my time is own! She/her. Not interested in anime/manga or porn.
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Stella Wisdom @stellawisdom.bsky.social Curator interested in electronic literature, interactive narratives, comics, web archiving and digital preservation 
Simply Folk @simplyfolk.bsky.social Four hours of the best in new and traditional folk, Americana, Celtic & more--every Sunday from 5-9 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Radio. Frequency guides, streams & playlists at simplyfolk.org!
Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
Live to Your Living Room @livetoyourlr.bsky.social Listen to the artists you love, live from the comfort of your living room. The best of folk, roots, and acoustic music.
Janice Burns @janice-mandolin.bsky.social Scottish mandolin gal & singer
The Old Crow Road @theoldcrowroad.bsky.social Three piece band playing British folk music with an occasional waft of Appalachian and contemporary. Based in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Here hear here: https://theoldcrowroad.bandcamp.com
Jon Doran @jondoranmusic.bsky.social Sings and plays things with strings. Just your average Jon
@robkb2.bsky.social @robkb2.bsky.social Folky, lefty, beardy - all the clichés.
Nancy Kerr @nancyannfolk.bsky.social Musician singer composer educator researcher
RE:VULVA @revulvauk.bsky.social Janice Burns, Holly Clarke, Cathy Geldard & Amy Thatcher
matthewⓥ🇵🇸 @t0mbstoneblues.bsky.social Author, Together Through Life
Freelance music writer for Far Out Magazine & Together Through Life Substack | all writing here: https://linktr.ee/MatthewIngate
Support my work here: https://ko-fi.com/matthewingate
Vegan Bob Dylan fan
Black Dog Radio @bdrandy.bsky.social Welcome to Black Dog Radio, where we aim play the very finest in contemporary folk, roots, world, acoustic music and more.
Join us live on Mixcloud every Saturday morning at 9am https://www.mixcloud.com/live/blackdogradio/
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Karl Sinfield - Folk Music @karlsinfield.bsky.social Folk music, author/editor/owner of Sing Yonder books & albums. Links.sindesign.co.uk
Rupert Curwen @smashtie.bsky.social Folk music fan. Singer. Father. Cat servant. Coder. Founder. Worrier. Kind. He/him.
Avatar - Corvid with sunglasses
Background - Black, just black
Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social Maritime musicologist and author of 'The Shantyman's Compendium'. Completed a PhD on ‘the last shantyman’, Stan Hugill, at the University of Aberdeen.
https://www.molliecarlyle.com
Aidan Ghyll @aidanghyll.bsky.social Writing fiction as Aidan Ghyll. YA, sci-fi, neo-mediaeval. Also musician, professor and doctor of horror.
Edric Ellis @edric.org Software developer for MathWorks working on Parallel Computing.
Northumbrian smallpipes and Border pipes with Camus.
Persistent cyclist.
Pete Robbins @justpeterobbins.bsky.social Performer/worker of music, broadcaster, writer, presenter & self confessed folketeer.
Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Award-winning arts centre at the heart of folk, home to efdss.bsky.social since 1930.
linktr.ee/cecilsharphouse
FolkEast @folkeast.bsky.social 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.
Lucy Shields @lucyrshields.bsky.social 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/
Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social 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
Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social Fiddle player with Bellowhead and Leveret. NYFE Artistic Director 2016-19. BBC Folk Musician Of The Year 2015. Folkophobe. Inadvisably vocal with my opinions.
Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk 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.
Folkandroots @folkandroots.bsky.social Folk music promoter in London uk
Topette!! @topette.bsky.social We're an acoustic five-piece band from England and France.
We play traditional tunes, and our own compositions, with driving grooves that make you want to dance.
"Equal proportions of cerebral and visceral pleasure. Seriously recommended."
David Kidman
Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
Folk London magazine @folklondon.co.uk Features, reviews and listings for folk and roots music in and around London. Contributions and review CDs welcome – see http://folklondon.co.uk
Matthew Bannister @matthewbannister.bsky.social Broadcaster. Host of Last Word on BBC Radio 4 and my own multi award winning Folk on Foot podcast (@folkonfoot.com). Posts all personal.
@tradfolk.bsky.social @tradfolk.bsky.social 
Matt Quinn @mattquinnmusic.bsky.social Folk singer, multi-instrumentalist. Host of In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast, 1/2 of George Sansome & Matt Quinn, 1/3 of Culverake.
Lau @laumusic.bsky.social 
Ely Folk Festival @elyfolkfestival.bsky.social An eclectic mix of music on a beautiful site just outside Ely. "As good a small festival as you can find anywhere in the country" - Rock'n'Reel
Janice Burns & Jon Doran @janandjon.bsky.social Mandolin, bouzouki & ballads
@leveretband.bsky.social @leveretband.bsky.social 
Readifolk 🎶🪕🎻🪗🎵 @readifolk.bsky.social Making Sunday night Folk Music night in Reading UK since 1982.
Visit 🌐 www.readifolk.org.uk to find out more and 🌐📻🛜 readifolkradio.bsky.social our weekly podcast brought to you by members of the club.
Jez Lowe @jezlowe.bsky.social Musician, singer, songwriter and occasional novelist from the County of Durham in North East England. 
The Folk Club @thefolkclub.bsky.social Stuart Green is Presenter of ‘The Folk Club’ on Folk Music Notebook, Burwell Radio and West Norfolk Radio - playing the best in Folk, Roots and Acoustic Music.
The Young’uns @theyounguns.bsky.social 
James Fagan @jamesfagan.bsky.social Aussie, now Yorkshire. Folk musician (Nancy Kerr/Melrose Quartet), Music Teacher, Photographer, Presenter of Thank Goodness it’s Folk (Sheffield Live Radio). I love singing, and playing strummy things. Mainly here for art.
Fatea Magazine @fateamagazine.bsky.social Magazine Editor, Radio Show Host, Supporter Of Music, Social Commentator, Photographer
Marry Waterson @marrywaterson.bsky.social Singer / writer / animator / serial collaborator on @olirecords
All things: http://linktr.ee/marrywaterson
Lewis Wood @lewiswoodmusic.bsky.social Musician and composer. Folk/Trad plus occasional weird stuff.
Plays in Granny’s Attic, Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood, solo, and other projects.
Neurodivergent, queer, he/they, 30.
https://linktr.ee/lewiswoodmusic
Sheffield Folk Guide @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social A guide to folk music and dance events in and near Sheffield by @KathyBarnes. Please see www.sheffieldfolkguide.org.uk. A non-commercial information sharing service.
Andy Turner @audinarymusic.bsky.social Singer and anglo-concertina player with Magpie Lane.
He/Him. Lefty, Remainer.
Former librarian, recently retired from the University of Reading TEL team.
http://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com
English Folk Expo @englishfolkexpo.bsky.social EFEx supports the English folk, roots & acoustic music sector through initiatives such as industry showcasing and festivals.
Our next Industry Showcase is on 20-22 Mar 2025 📅
Produced by Sound Roots
Jon Wilks @jonwilksmusic.bsky.social Folk songs of memory, place & tradition. “Badman fingerpicking guitarist” (Carl Barât).
https://ffm.bio/jonwilksmusic
Kings Place @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social The cultural pulse of King's Cross 📍
🔗 https://linktr.ee/kingsplace
In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast @intheroud.bsky.social A weekly podcast exploring the world of traditional folk song hosted by @mattquinnmusic.bsky.social.
Season 7 out now!!
Support us at www.patreon.com/intheroud
All links: https://linktr.ee/intheroud
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson @christinaandalex.bsky.social Musicians / Songwriters. Living in Norwich, Norfolk.
New Album 'Safe Travels' Out 09/05/25
Eliza Carthy @elizacarthy.bsky.social Queen of the Whirl! Trad/prog singer, violinist, writer & stage/film composer, available for radio/TV presenting/arts curation. Pres. EFDSS. Feminist. LGBTQ+ ally.
Sidmouth Folk Festival @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social A week-long annual folk festival, held in August (30 Jul - 6 Aug 2027), featuring concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, late-night dancing, sessions & more!
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app