Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Mark Fisher @markffisher.bsky.social Guardian theatre critic and presenter of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast https://www.xtclimelight.com/ All kinds of stuff here: https://linktr.ee/markffisher
huw @huwareyou.bsky.social david essex apologist
words for shindig! magazine
XTC Listening Party @xtclisteningparty.bsky.social Account created for the 2026 monthly XTC (and The Dukes of Stratosphear) Listening Parties. Run by @mealygarage.bsky.social. #XTCmusic
Next Listening Party: PSONIC PSUNSPOT on Wed 16 Sep @ 9 PM (BST)
tidaltalestheatre.bsky.social @tidaltalestheatre.bsky.social We make exciting theatre for young people & their families. Blending modern & traditional forms, we make striking folk-theatre that finds cultural connections through world stories & songs, exploring social & environmental justice. Tidaltalescollective.com
pietermagalies.bsky.social @pietermagalies.bsky.social Just someone navigating life, with a passion for food, animals, and love
LTGuitarist @ltguitarist.bsky.social Guitarist, composer, aspiring folkie 🎸 Professional marketer, creator of podcasts, comedy shorts and more. I like to make stuff.
He/Him.
Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social Folk choir leader (pielarks.bsky.social), amateur dancer (Morris, balfolk) and English concertina player; retired book editor, woke lefty vegan heathen, born @ 317 ppm, London, UK.
James McNair @jamesmcnairwrites.bsky.social Slightly under / over word count since 1994. Writes for MOJO, Prog and Classic Rock. Previous stints at The Independent, Q, and as a trainee baker. Whitley Bay transplant via Glasgow, East Kilbride and London.
Deepdale Camping & Rooms @deepdalecamping.co.uk Campsite & rooms on beautiful Norfolk Coast, helping lovers of outdoors find their hygge. Home of Deepdale Festival. AA Small Campsite of the Year 2023.
https://deepdalecamping.co.uk/
Phil @phil55494.bsky.social Is this who I am? Beer, diabetes and other stuff. He/Him
All right then, have a bit more. Working for a living by fiddling around with computers and software for researchers at a university in the NW England
Danny Neill @danny-neill.bsky.social Music journalist and collector/dealer of vinyl records
The All Good Music Club @allgoodmusicclub.eurosky.social Being a club for the performance and/or creation of music, taking place at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
Three different events:
Music Jam - 2nd Thurs every month
Songwriting Circle - last Sat every month
The All Good Whistle Test - last Fri every quarter
Mr.Skullzy ☠️ @skullskull5.bsky.social (♾️)🧑🧑🧒🧒🧑🧑🧒🧒😺 😺 🏳️🌈🌈
Some Gony (simpleton) that has a passion for Silly Plastic Cameras (Check Out My Free Substack) that has a eclectic taste in Music and Comics|Manga.
Leigh Folk Festival @leighfolkfestival.bsky.social The Leigh Folk Festival is one of the largest completely free-to-attend folk festivals in the UK.
2026 Dates: 25th to 28th June
https://www.leighfolkfestival.com
Leah Roseman @leahroseman.bsky.social My podcast strives to inspire you through the personal stories of a diversity of musicians, with in-depth conversations and great music, that reveal the depth and breadth to a life in music. Conversations with Musicians: leahroseman.com
DownByTheRiver9 @downbytheriver9.bsky.social DBTR is a live music promoter in the NorthEast of England.
Middle Men not welcome. Independent artists very welcome.
100% ticket sales direct to musicians.
‘One of those forward thinking promoters’ – NARC. magazine
Tickets + Listings ↙️
downbytheriver9.com
Born Under a Bluesky @blues-vault.bsky.social Born Under a Bluesky
Exploring the sounds that move me , from blues and soul to Americana, folk, jazz, Afrobeat and beyond.
Not a schedule, just drops when the music hits.
dave roberts, PhD @dr-faustus.bsky.social An American from Detroit who’s lived in the UK for a long time. Did my PhD on the ethics of war. Love music, especially on vinyl, art, wine, books and politics (I’m woke though prefer awakening and far left). DM=Blocked, no crypto and I’m happily married.
Outline Publishing @outlinepublishing.bsky.social Publishing books on the Great War
Klas Jonsson Music @klas-jonsson-music.bsky.social Swedish composer, singer and multi instrumentalist.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4QsucicjivKpdgL7vRcbkr
https://ko-fi.com/klasjonsson
#accordion #accordionist #music #folk #indie #independentmusic #musician #sweden #composer #singer
Controlled Decay @controlleddecay.bsky.social Woke AF, Northern Lefty. Reader. Multi Genre Music Lover and Producer, Multi Subject Worrier, Birder, Nature Lover, Climate Collapse Fearer & Comedy Dependent, 6 music dad.
TAX THE RICH!!
My Music
https://www.controlleddecay.co.uk/
Michael Tanner @michaeltanner.bsky.social Mostly antiques, occasional sounds, always messing.
https://linktr.ee/MichaelTanner
WHAT THE FOLK IS THIS? DJ BellaDonna @whatthefolkisthis.bsky.social WHAT THE FOLK IS THIS?
Alternative Folk Music Radio Show
On
XCSB Alternative Media
Independent, online, streaming Radio
XCSB.org
Instagram: whatthefolkisthis
Instagram: bella_donna_dj
Facebook: Bella Donna
Au Pair of Dragons🇨🇦 @oldman-sac.bsky.social Square Peg/Round Hole
Aphantastic
SDAM
Keeping on being me until the world comes around.
Ranagri @ranagri.bsky.social Fatea - Band of the year
Malvern/Carlow - lnk.to/BoundForNewYorkCityIG
Booking, UK - duncan@midnightmango.com
North America - sean@woodenshipproductions.com
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.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Run Out The Guns @runouttheguns.bsky.social Run Out The Guns are a seven piece acoustic line-up featuring guitar, fiddle, mandolin, keyboard, bass and percussion. Playing songs, shanties, jigs and reels from the distant past to the modern day
@warwickfolkfest.bsky.social @warwickfolkfest.bsky.social 
Holly Clarke @hollyclarkemusic.bsky.social 🌻'Man, she can sing' - Martin Carthy 🌻
Musician|Singer|Ballads|Folk Song|Folklore|Folk Horror|Teacher|Composer|Cumbrian
Performs solo and with Holly & The Reivers, RE:VULVA, Holly Clarke & George Sansome
@folkstrangecharm.bsky.social @folkstrangecharm.bsky.social Indie music with a folky slant, always charming and sometimes a bit strange
Every Tuesday at 8pm on Northern Quarter Radio
Andrea Holland @bee5knee5.bsky.social Comms Strategy for Charities.
Books, banter and brews.
Folklore, Folk music, Folk the Tories
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaholland/
Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social A seasoned travel writer that brings destinations to life through vivid detail, immersive storytelling, and firsthand experiences.
🚫 crypto / forex
🚫 unkind people
🚫 sales / solicitation
🚫 money requests / go fund me
Music Timeline: now in 1956 @musictimeline.bsky.social The finest music from every genre, tracing the journey from the very beginning.
Check out my twin account: @rocktimeline.bsky.social for a rock-focused musical journey.
Dedicated to the evolution of music.
Music2View @music2view.bsky.social Sharing music that I like with accompanying music videos.
#music #musicsky #video #art #forgivethetags
BGR Events @bgrevents.bsky.social Bringing the best folk, blues and Americana to Calderdale since 2014. Not for profit, donating surpluses to charity, so far £12,000 +
DROP YOUR SPOTIFY LINKS TO JOIN PLAYLIST & SAVE POST PHOTO(:-) @blueskyplaylist.bsky.social 1. Share songs & 2. Save PLAYLIST to join the BLUESKY PLAYLIST on SPOTIFY tag @blueskyplaylist.bsky.social to be added BLUESKY MUSIC STARTER PACK: https://go.bsky.app/PA251xZ
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2msBUnabzwcqit9tlNzOxc?si=YzwqgpE9R
Nitten Folk Club @nittenfolkclub.bsky.social Based in the Dean Tavern, Newtongrange. We meet Thursday nights at 8.30pm. The first Thursday of the month is our Guest Night with the finest artists currently performing in Scotland and beyond. Other Thursdays we host singarounds to which all are welcome.
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
Timewalkproject @timewalkproject.bsky.social Local Historian in Sheffield, community activist, disabled, believer in environmental justice and cooperative action. I will speak up for the oppressed not because I am, but because I don't like bullies. 
Michael Tedder @mtedder.bsky.social (He/Him) Words for Rolling Stone, Stereogum, The Ringer, bunch of other places.
Managing Editor: Antics (print is back, baby) https://www.anticsmag.com
Author: Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music is available now.
https://michaeltedder.com/ 
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Anil Prasad @innerviews.org Innerviews: The first and longest-running online music magazine.
Visit: Innerviews.org
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
MUSICRAFT @musicraft.eu Enterprise-grade distribution for independent artists and labels.
musicraft.eu
Realm Music @handle.invalid An Independent Record Label
Latest release:
realm.re/echo- A Adam Knight Gilbert @akgilbert.bsky.social Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
Steve @asrsteve.bsky.social What can I say? Retired engineer. Interests involve current preservation of a WW2 boat, alternative energy, classical and folk music, campervaning, opponent of so called smart motorways in the UK and the Assisted Dying bill also in the UK. Politics as well
Burning Shed @burningshed.com Online record shop and label specialising in Progressive, Ambient, Electronic & Art Rock music. We also run official webstores for bands/labels. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at burningshed.com
david sylvian @davidsylvian.bsky.social artist
https://linktr.ee/davidsylvian
instagram.com/davidsylvian258
Simon Raymonde @mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social Musician with a label. Cocteau Twins/Lost Horizons. Producer, mixer. Some non-Cocteaus gig highlights? Playing bass with Midlake, on “The Rat” live with The Walkmen, and playing guitar on tour with Mercury Rev ❤️ Memoir “In One Ear” on Nine Eight Books now.
dragonbait @dragon-bait.bsky.social Geologist, harpist, concerned citizen, former Floridian, Arsenal FC supporter.
MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social Music of substance.
mojo4music.com
WesternFrontWW1 @westernfrontww1.bsky.social A page for WW1 history, research, books, films etc. This is for remembrance and history only. I will re-post WW1 info - so please feel free to link me to your posts if you want help to highlight an event/publication etc. 
Brent Holl @beatinpathpub.bsky.social Owner and Sole Proprietor at Beatin' Path Publications LLC. We are a friendly, low cost, no frills, publishing house dedicated to high quality music for teachers trained in Orff Schulwerk as well as classroom, choral and general music teachers. 
Jacky Pankhurst @jackyp599.bsky.social 🏞 Taking the long way round.
🎶 Joining the dots between people, places & music.
🙃 Occasionally contrary. Often perplexed.
Folk & Roots | Folklore | Lover of Trees | Night Sky | Books | Wildlife
Walton Folk @waltonfolk.bsky.social Home of the monthly acoustic/folk/americana sessions at
Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre https://bit.ly/2ZcBMv8 and the "occasionally annual" Walton Folk Festival.
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.
Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
“Imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s folk tales” (KLOFmag)
Downend Folk & Roots @downendfolkroots.bsky.social Monthly folk, roots and acoustic music concerts in Downend, near Bristol, UK.
CVFolk @cvfolk.bsky.social Campaign to support, promote and celebrate folk music in Coventry & Warwickshire. Working in collaboration with the Albany Theatre, Coventry, UK. Find out more on http://www.cvfolk.com
Folkandroots @folkandroots.bsky.social Folk music promoter in London uk
Ace of Swords @aceofswordsband.bsky.social Gloomy&dreamy folk from Odesa, Ukraine
https://linktr.ee/aceofswordsua
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
@artmenius.bsky.social @artmenius.bsky.social 
@skinnertwitch.bsky.social @skinnertwitch.bsky.social 
Richard Grainger @darklander.bsky.social Musician, Writer, Promoter
Folk, Roots. Trad and new songs the old way.www.richard-grainger.com
NEW Community Harp @newcommunityharp.bsky.social I'm the director of a group of local harpists. I arrange, publish, and, record songs on Celtic harp
Oxfolk Ceilidhs @oxfolkceilidhs.bsky.social Energetic dancing excellent live music, a caller to explain the dances, friendly atmosphere. A top night out! Kennington Village Centre, near Oxford, UK
buytickets.at/oxfolkceilidhs
#ceilidh #BarnDance #FolkDance
Col Tait @coltait.bsky.social Actor & Talent Agent : https://zurityne.com 🖤🤍
Karl Mayes @karlmayes.bsky.social Bass player / Medical Anthropology (SOAS) /book addict / cat associate / Head of Patient & Community Engagement at Leicester’s Hospitals.
Dan Thompson @prestondan.bsky.social Formally from Worcestershire, I absconded to Lancashire in October 2022. Loving life up north! Socialist, antifascist, fighting for what’s right and just. No to War, no to monarchy, Free 🇵🇸 Palestine
LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Nein,No,Non,Não, ingen,Hayır,Nie,Tidak,Nee,Nei
🚫DM’s🚫
Patrick Duffy @pduffymusic.bsky.social Folk Singer, Songwriter
Impractical Actualist
Boston, MA
Joyride - The Album - Out now! Patduffy.weebly.com
Merry Hell @merryhellband.bsky.social Multi-award winning Merry Hell offer joyful, uplifting folk-rock, with a message of hope for troubled times. New album 'Rising Of The Bold' coming soon. Come to a gig - we would love to see you! merryhell.co.uk for more!
Matt Lowry @mattlowry.bsky.social TV editor. West Sussex. Likes music and books and walking my dog
eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social And I must not forget, we must not forget, that we are human beings.
Enzo G. Conti @tremartelli.bsky.social Musicista e portavoce folk-band Tre Martelli. www.tremartelli.it
Hoot and Holler @hootandholler.bsky.social Ed McKeon. Retired filmmaker. Radio show host (Hoot and Holler, wesufm.org) interviewing writers and musicians. Antifascist. www.hootandhollerwesu.com
Patrick Costello @patrickcostello.bsky.social EU official and diplomat for 27 years turned writer, adviser and thinktanker. European Partnership for Democracy, Election-Watch.EU, Kofi Annan Foundation, Mines Advisory Group.
Clare Purdy @clarepurdy.bsky.social Early to bed, early to rise.
Mike Scott @mickpuck.bsky.social Waterboys singer / guitar player / Rock'n'roller / Freak flag flyer
David Agnew @davidagnew.bsky.social 
Graeme Hawley @graemehawley.bsky.social Actor. Creative. Lecturer. Plastic Northerner. PUSB
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Jon Thompson @johnnyfocal.bsky.social Storyteller 🫵, filmmaker 🎥 and film Producer 🌟. A Hollywood C-Suite interloper.💥
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Tim Jonze @timjonze.bsky.social Guardian culture writer. Just trying to get through the day without cocking up, and drink as many hot drinks as possible in the process.
Pebble Mill Enjoyer @catsuitcity.bsky.social Ich nichten lichten
Dr Claire Robinson @mcrclaire.bsky.social Cultural and social historian of 19th and 20th Century. Mostly researches Victorian and Edwardian theatre and periodicals in Manchester. Historical Pantomime. Public Engagement. Fashion and costume history. Arty stuff. Foodie. Nature. - M Kate Mitchell @mitchellkate.bsky.social Writer living in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Brian Mitchell @brianmitchl.com Bike commuter, car-free, frontend dev, Minneapolis, MN.
Board on https://streets.mn and https://javascriptmn.com.
Midtown Greenway bridge fan.
Pronouns: he/him/his
Website: https://brianm.me
Mastodon: https://mspsocial.net/@BrianMitchL
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
Rob @feebrob.bsky.social Home brewer, musician, candle maker (not always in that order).
James Thorne @jamesthorne.bsky.social Husband, father of 3, Solicitor, Brooklands Museum volunteer. Once dabbled in refereeing (both Rugby and football)...opinions are all my own 🎗️