Live to Your Living Room

Ashley Hutchings – The Guv’nor – presents 100 Not Out, with very special guest (and son) Blair Dunlop. For one night only on Live to Your Living Room, Ashley and Blair talk about their careers in music, their father and son relationship in the folk world and, of course, share some of their favourite songs. […]

Steve Knightley is a renowned musician and songwriter with a career spanning over three decades. His musical journey began at the age of 14 when he picked up a guitar and started playing. By the time he was 16, he had already performed his first gig and was busking on the streets of Sweden at […]

Where There’s Brass: Stories and music – a love letter to the waterways of England Author and musician Tom Kitching launches his new book and album, ‘Where There’s Brass,’ with a special storytelling and music concert tour. Documenting six months living in the London waterways community, making the long journey across England from Manchester on […]

Live to your Living Room is proud to present Katie Spencer, introduced by the one and only Martin Simpson. Raised in the East Yorkshire flatlands on the fringes of Hull, Katie Spencer’s landscape has always been that of open skies and widening rivers. Industry still shapes the city here. The people, as with the land, […]

Much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow have been propelled into newfound fame for penning the theme tune to Sally Wainwright’s hit BBC1/HBO drama Gentleman Jack, earning them global admiration and even an acting role for Belinda on the iconic TV drama Happy Valley. Belinda and Heidi’s boundless songwriting has been described […]

May Monday began its life with a meeting at Halkær Kro Festival in Denmark in 1998, and this year they’re marking their 25th anniversary with a tour of Ireland, Scotland, and Orkney. This gig will be coming to you from a beautiful living room in the parish of Orphir, one of the largest parishes in […]

Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are singing, songwriting, strumming and swigging buddies from the badlands of the Cheshire Plain. Radcliffe has been on BBC national radio since the early nineties and currently hosts the Radio 2 Folk Show and weekend breakfast on 6Music. He is also the author of five bestselling books, the latest being […]

Sally Barker is a founding member of the female folk band The Poozies, but she’s also had a long and varied solo career. In the early 90s, she had solo singer/songwriter success in Germany and toured relentlessly. Her second album, This Rhythm Is Mine, received a 4* review from Q Magazine. Following the release of […]

About Rachael McShane & The Cartographers Rachael McShane is a renowned folk singer, cellist, fiddle and viola player from the North East of England. She gained fame as an original member of the award-winning folk big band Bellowhead, touring with them extensively and making a number of television appearances. The band recorded five studio albums […]

Marilla Homes is a force of nature, her voice powerful, subtle, enticing. Born on Yorta Yorta land in country Victoria in Australia, Marilla grew up moving around a lot, and in very multicultural environments. She has always loved singing, and originally trained as an opera singer (lyric soprano) and sang with the state company Victorian […]

Over his fifteen-year career, Midlands-born guitarist and songwriter Sam Carter has earned a reputation for vivid, heartfelt songwriting and captivating live performances. He is a highly regarded instrumentalist, renowned by many as “the finest English-style fingerpicking guitarist of his generation” (Jon Boden). Sam has appeared on national TV, including Later… with Jools Holland, won a […]