Past performers have included...
2005
Daytripper
Martin Carthy & Mike Waterson
Uiscedwr
Rachel Unthank & the Winter Set
2006
Maddy Prior and friends - The Quest Tour
Alistair Anderson & final year students from the Folk Music Degree course at Newcastle University
Spiers & Boden
Lisa Knapp
James Raynard
Flossie
Chimera
Doonan & Murray
Last Night's Fun
Mike Sheehan
AG & Kate
Kathryn Tickell & Corrina Hewat
Kerfuffle
2007
Vin Garbutt with support by Katy Doherty
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh
Jenna Reid with her sister Bethany and Kevin Mackenzie with support by Waxwing
Tanglefoot
Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Cherish the Ladies
Mad Agnes
Steamradio
Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell
Swarb's Lazarus
Jez Lowe's "Song for Geordie" Tour
Last Night's Fun
2008
Vin Garbutt
John Renbourn and Johnny Dickinson
Quicksilver
Lau
Bernard Carney
Peggy Seeger, Martin Carthy, Norma & Mike Waterson
John Wright's Band
Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
Isla St Clair
Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine (with the unexpected addition of John McCusker!)
The Churchfitters
Battlefield Band with support by the Calum Stewart Trio - Calum Stewart, Andy May & Lauren MacColl
John Tams & Barry Coope with support by Kate Bramley
Appalachian Roots (Ira Bernstein & Riley Baugus)
Tom McConville
2009
Chris Sherburn, Denny Bartley & Bella Hardy
The Anna Massie Band with support by Dr Zoo
Appalalchian Magic with Debby McClatchy
Martin Simpson with support by Landermason
Bram Taylor with Roly Hindmarch, with support by Loose Connection
Duncan Chisholm & Ivan Drever with support by Lacewing
Vin Garbutt
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh
Chris Milner and Skyran
Chris While & Julie Matthews
The James Keelaghan Trio
Maurice Grumbleweed and Brian Glanfield, with Reeth Brass Band
Dave Swarbrick
Kerfuffle
The Lark Rise Band with Ashley Hutchings
Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies with Benny Graham & guests - "Geordie's Winter Almanac Radio Roadshow"
2010
Landermason
Chris Wood with support by Spinndrift
Paul Wheater sings Jim Reeves
Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin, with support by Barbara Helen
Maddy Prior & Nick Hennessey - The North of Barnsley Tour
Isambarde with support by Stan Graham
Colum Sands with support by Brenda Heslop & Ribbon Road
Vin Garbutt with support by Sarah Dean
Kieran Halpin with support by The Candlelite Band
Cloudstreet
Tams & Coope
Andy Irvine
Show of Hands
The Tom McConville Band
Peggy Seeger
Malinky
2011
Pete Coe
Megson
Craig & Willoughby
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson
Isla St Clair with Eyes Front a combination of live performance and film about music in wartime, with film maker Patrick King
Johnny Silvo
Vin Garbutt
Dave Burland
Ken Nicol and BarronBrady
Tams & Coope
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
2012
Anna Massie & Mairearad Green
Other Roads
Maddy Prior with Giles Lewin & Hannah James
Benny Graham, Chuck Fleming & Bert Draycott
Al Parrish (ex-Tanglefoot)
The Tom McConville Band
Flossie Malavialle
Tams & Coope
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
Alistair Anderson & Dan Walsh
Appalachian Roots
2013
Anthony John Clarke
Martin Simpson
Landermason
Kieran Halpin
Hillfolk Noir
Vin Garbutt
Jez Lowe & Kate Bramley
Lucy Ward
New Rope String Band
John Kirkpatrick
Blast from the Past
2014
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Zeke Deighton
Maddy Prior, Giles Lewin & Hannah James
Ricardo Curbelo
Sam Sweeney & Hannah James
Martin & Eliza Carthy
The Bills
Flossie Malavialle
Duncan Chisholm
Kitsyke Will
Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band
Tams & Coope
2015
Steve Knightley
Steve Turner
Lucy Ward
The Tom McConville Band
The Railsplitters
Hillfolk Noir
New Rope String Band
WinterWilson
Carthy & Swarb
Vin Garbutt
Tams & Coope
2016
Megson
Hannah James
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Johnny Cash Revisited
Tim & Rhona Dalling
Anita Harris
An Evening with the Dreamers
The Hot Seats
Bob Fox
Ricardo Curbelo
Connla
Harpeth Rising
Furnace Mountain
Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman
Emily Smith
2017
Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick
Rag Mama Rag
Lady Maisery
Tania Opland & Mike Freeman
The Dreamers
Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater
The Damien O'Kane Trio
Lucy Ward
John Tams & Barry Coope
The Quo Experience
Tom McConville & Tony Wilson
2018
Andreas Tophøj and Rune Barslund
Megson
Tannara
Calan
Andy Irvine
Ritchie Parrish Ritchie
Duncan Chisholm
Evie Ladin & Keith Terry
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards
The Persuaders
Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan
RANT
Tams & Coope
Urban Folk Quartet
Himmerland
A Classic Christmas
Green Matthews - A Christmas Carol
2019
John Kirkpatrick
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Symbio
Other Roads
Peter Knight & John Spiers
Rag Mama Rag
The Baldy Holly Band
Chris Bannister with the music of John Denver
Landermason
Martin Simpson
The Dreamers
3hattrio
Duncan Chisholm
Gaelforce
Sherburn Bartley Sanders
Feedback and Lewis & Katie - flood fundraiser by local young people
Maire Ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
2020
The Seamus Egan Project
Megson
Joe Newberry & April Verch
2021
RANT
Leveret
Himmerland
Peter Knight's Gigspanner
Green Matthews - Midwinter Revels
2022
An Evening with Dolly Parton - The Rags to Rhinestones Story
Other Roads
Peggy Seeger & Calum MacColl
Steve Knightley
The Fourmost
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Tony McManus & Julia Toaspern
Harp and a Monkey
Darren Page - the voice of Roy Orbison
Andy Irvine
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards
John Tams
cua
2023
Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
Saltfishforty
Jez Lowe
Jack Rutter
The Hoth Brothers Band
Tom Leary & Eric Sedge
Bob Fox
Duncan Chisholm & Hamish Napier
Chris Wood
John Tams
Megson
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
Guy Davis
Sam Lewis
The Wilderness Yet
Daytripper
Martin Carthy & Mike Waterson
Uiscedwr
Rachel Unthank & the Winter Set
2006
Maddy Prior and friends - The Quest Tour
Alistair Anderson & final year students from the Folk Music Degree course at Newcastle University
Spiers & Boden
Lisa Knapp
James Raynard
Flossie
Chimera
Doonan & Murray
Last Night's Fun
Mike Sheehan
AG & Kate
Kathryn Tickell & Corrina Hewat
Kerfuffle
2007
Vin Garbutt with support by Katy Doherty
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh
Jenna Reid with her sister Bethany and Kevin Mackenzie with support by Waxwing
Tanglefoot
Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Cherish the Ladies
Mad Agnes
Steamradio
Bob Fox & Billy Mitchell
Swarb's Lazarus
Jez Lowe's "Song for Geordie" Tour
Last Night's Fun
2008
Vin Garbutt
John Renbourn and Johnny Dickinson
Quicksilver
Lau
Bernard Carney
Peggy Seeger, Martin Carthy, Norma & Mike Waterson
John Wright's Band
Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby
Isla St Clair
Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine (with the unexpected addition of John McCusker!)
The Churchfitters
Battlefield Band with support by the Calum Stewart Trio - Calum Stewart, Andy May & Lauren MacColl
John Tams & Barry Coope with support by Kate Bramley
Appalachian Roots (Ira Bernstein & Riley Baugus)
Tom McConville
2009
Chris Sherburn, Denny Bartley & Bella Hardy
The Anna Massie Band with support by Dr Zoo
Appalalchian Magic with Debby McClatchy
Martin Simpson with support by Landermason
Bram Taylor with Roly Hindmarch, with support by Loose Connection
Duncan Chisholm & Ivan Drever with support by Lacewing
Vin Garbutt
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh
Chris Milner and Skyran
Chris While & Julie Matthews
The James Keelaghan Trio
Maurice Grumbleweed and Brian Glanfield, with Reeth Brass Band
Dave Swarbrick
Kerfuffle
The Lark Rise Band with Ashley Hutchings
Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies with Benny Graham & guests - "Geordie's Winter Almanac Radio Roadshow"
2010
Landermason
Chris Wood with support by Spinndrift
Paul Wheater sings Jim Reeves
Kirsty McGee & Mat Martin, with support by Barbara Helen
Maddy Prior & Nick Hennessey - The North of Barnsley Tour
Isambarde with support by Stan Graham
Colum Sands with support by Brenda Heslop & Ribbon Road
Vin Garbutt with support by Sarah Dean
Kieran Halpin with support by The Candlelite Band
Cloudstreet
Tams & Coope
Andy Irvine
Show of Hands
The Tom McConville Band
Peggy Seeger
Malinky
2011
Pete Coe
Megson
Craig & Willoughby
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson
Isla St Clair with Eyes Front a combination of live performance and film about music in wartime, with film maker Patrick King
Johnny Silvo
Vin Garbutt
Dave Burland
Ken Nicol and BarronBrady
Tams & Coope
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
2012
Anna Massie & Mairearad Green
Other Roads
Maddy Prior with Giles Lewin & Hannah James
Benny Graham, Chuck Fleming & Bert Draycott
Al Parrish (ex-Tanglefoot)
The Tom McConville Band
Flossie Malavialle
Tams & Coope
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
Alistair Anderson & Dan Walsh
Appalachian Roots
2013
Anthony John Clarke
Martin Simpson
Landermason
Kieran Halpin
Hillfolk Noir
Vin Garbutt
Jez Lowe & Kate Bramley
Lucy Ward
New Rope String Band
John Kirkpatrick
Blast from the Past
2014
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Zeke Deighton
Maddy Prior, Giles Lewin & Hannah James
Ricardo Curbelo
Sam Sweeney & Hannah James
Martin & Eliza Carthy
The Bills
Flossie Malavialle
Duncan Chisholm
Kitsyke Will
Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band
Tams & Coope
2015
Steve Knightley
Steve Turner
Lucy Ward
The Tom McConville Band
The Railsplitters
Hillfolk Noir
New Rope String Band
WinterWilson
Carthy & Swarb
Vin Garbutt
Tams & Coope
2016
Megson
Hannah James
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Johnny Cash Revisited
Tim & Rhona Dalling
Anita Harris
An Evening with the Dreamers
The Hot Seats
Bob Fox
Ricardo Curbelo
Connla
Harpeth Rising
Furnace Mountain
Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman
Emily Smith
2017
Martin Carthy & John Kirkpatrick
Rag Mama Rag
Lady Maisery
Tania Opland & Mike Freeman
The Dreamers
Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater
The Damien O'Kane Trio
Lucy Ward
John Tams & Barry Coope
The Quo Experience
Tom McConville & Tony Wilson
2018
Andreas Tophøj and Rune Barslund
Megson
Tannara
Calan
Andy Irvine
Ritchie Parrish Ritchie
Duncan Chisholm
Evie Ladin & Keith Terry
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards
The Persuaders
Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan
RANT
Tams & Coope
Urban Folk Quartet
Himmerland
A Classic Christmas
Green Matthews - A Christmas Carol
2019
John Kirkpatrick
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Symbio
Other Roads
Peter Knight & John Spiers
Rag Mama Rag
The Baldy Holly Band
Chris Bannister with the music of John Denver
Landermason
Martin Simpson
The Dreamers
3hattrio
Duncan Chisholm
Gaelforce
Sherburn Bartley Sanders
Feedback and Lewis & Katie - flood fundraiser by local young people
Maire Ni Chathasaigh and Chris Newman
2020
The Seamus Egan Project
Megson
Joe Newberry & April Verch
2021
RANT
Leveret
Himmerland
Peter Knight's Gigspanner
Green Matthews - Midwinter Revels
2022
An Evening with Dolly Parton - The Rags to Rhinestones Story
Other Roads
Peggy Seeger & Calum MacColl
Steve Knightley
The Fourmost
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Tony McManus & Julia Toaspern
Harp and a Monkey
Darren Page - the voice of Roy Orbison
Andy Irvine
Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards
John Tams
cua
2023
Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
Saltfishforty
Jez Lowe
Jack Rutter
The Hoth Brothers Band
Tom Leary & Eric Sedge
Bob Fox
Duncan Chisholm & Hamish Napier
Chris Wood
John Tams
Megson
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
Guy Davis
Sam Lewis
The Wilderness Yet
