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Performers: music and song: k-m

Note: performers' locations / addresses indicate where they are based, not where they are prepared to play. Most tour all across, and outside of, the county. Entries are indexed alphabetically by surname or band name.

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  • Keepers Fold
    Multi-instrumental traditional folk duo.
    Contact: Iain Glover
    Address: 2, Long Cottage, Farnham Lane, Ferrensby, North Yorkshire HG5 9JG
    Telephone: 01423 340113
    Email: iain@keepersfold.org.uk
    Website: http://www.keepersfold.org.uk/

  • Keighley Road Jolly Wassailers
    Carols, wassail and ritual songs with music and dance.
    Skipton, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Paul Hudson
    Telephone: 01282 868040
    Email: paul@clogfest.org

  • Kerfuffle
    Award winning young concert/ceilidh band. Violin, bass, guitar, accordion.
    Rotherham, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Pete Thornton-Smith
    Telephone: 01709 546555
    Email: pts@barrel.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.kerfuffleonline.co.uk/

  • David Kidman
    Experienced MC (festivals, concerts, clubs, song sessions); also singer (traditional and contemporary songs and shanties) and poet.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01943 609154
    Email: david.kidman@tiscali.co.uk

  • Kimber's Men
    A cappella sea songs, shanties. Four part harmonies.
    Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Joe Stead
    Telephone: 01422 833659 / 07959 863479
    Email: banjostead@compuserve.com

  • Sid Kipper
    Comedian, author, broadcaster.
    Bradford, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Elaine Cooper
    Telephone: 01377 217080

  • Arthur Knevett
    Traditional song, unaccompanied.
    Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
    Telephone: 01472 699432
    Email: arthur.carol@btinternet.com

  • David Kosky
    Young bluegrass rhythm and flatpick lead guitarist, DADGAD accompanist. Also tenor banjo, mandolin, double bass. Workshops for advanced flatpick guitar.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Email: koz@softhome.net

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  • Liz Law and Terry Conway
    Traditional and self-written songs. Available for Yorkshire bookings. Liz also plays with Lucky Bags.
    Allendale Town, Northumberland
    Telephone: 01434 683251
    Email: liz@walzil.freeserve.co.uk
    Website: http://www.stonehousemusic.co.uk/

  • Jon Loomes
    Musician and singer. English traditional music. Guitar, fiddle, melodeon, English concertina, hurdy gurdy, etc. Barn Dances to Banquets.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0800 195 4442
    Email: jon-loomes@hotmail.com
    Website: http://www.mp3.com/jonloomes/

  • Lost Boys
    Acoustic folk, blues, country and just about everything else. Female vocal, fiddle, guitar. Folk venues and pubs.
    Harrogate, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Dave Fairfax
    Telephone: 01765 676937
    Email: david@fairfax95.freeserve.co.uk

  • Amanda Lowe
    Solo hammer dulcimer player and vocalist. Performance coach and record producer.
    Beverley, East Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01964 562073
    Email: grinnigogs@pop3.poptel.org.uk
    Website: http://www.mindworking.co.uk/

  • Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies
    Kate Bramley (fiddle, vocals), Jez Lowe (cittern, vocals, guitar, harmonica), Andy May (Northumbrian pipes, whistles, piano, accordion), Simon Haworth (bass, keyboards, vocals).
    York, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Kate Bramley
    Telephone: 01904 623565
    Email: bp@badapple.freeserve.co.uk
    Website: http://www.jezlowe.freeserve.co.uk/
    Agent: Bob Gilchrist
    Telephone: 01416 341095
    Email: Oscarsfolk@aol.com

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  • Tom McConville
    Virtuoso fiddle and song. Traditional and contemporary reportoire with many years experience. Fiddle workshops. Qualified Alexander Technique teacher.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Tomcat Music
    Telephone: 01535 658392
    Email: concerts@tomcatmusic.com
    Website: http://www.tomcatmusic.com/

  • Duncan McFarlane
    Traditional and original songs in the traditional idiom.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0113 225 6989
    Email: duncan.mcfarlane@ntlworld.com
    Website: http://www.duncanmcfarlane.co.uk/

  • Duncan McFarlane Band
    Electro acoustic band. Traditional and original songs in the traditional idiom.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0113 225 6989
    Email: duncan.mcfarlane@ntlworld.com
    Website: http://www.duncanmcfarlane.co.uk/

  • Gerry McNeice
    Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and singer. A mixture of self-penned, traditional and contemporary folk material.
    Leeds, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01943 461536
    Email: gerry@gerrymcneice.co.uk
    Website: http://www.gerrymcneice.co.uk/
    See also Workshops

  • Magna Carta
    Singer-songwriter duo or band.
    Hebden, North Yorkshire
    Contact: Chris Simpson
    Telephone: 01756 752024
    Email: pts@barrel.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.magnac.com/

  • Mambo Jambo
    Accoustic duo. Latin, Caribbean, jazz and folk styles. Spanish guitar, sax, clarinet, quatro and banjo.
    Hull, East Yorkshire
    Contact: Adastra (agency)
    Telephone: 01377 217662
    Email: mamboandjambo@hotmail.com
    Website: http://www.mambojambo.org/
    Agency website: http://www.adastra-music.co.uk/

  • Chris Manners
    Performing songwriter with traditional roots. Available solo or as part of occasional band Clogiron.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01943 601807
    Email: spanner@cmanners.fsnet.co.uk

  • Charlie Mansell BMus
    Singer, cellist, pianist. Available as a solo vocalist or for work with groups, musical direction, arrangement etc. Teacher of voice, cello, improvisation and theory of music.
    Address: 6 King Street, Lindley, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD3 3EZ
    Telephone: 07709 163 185
    Email: allthingsbrightandkaleidoscopic@yahoo.co.uk

  • Lou Marriott
    Singer / guitarist. Contemporary British and American song. Has been performing in folk clubs, singarounds and festivals since 1979. Repertoire includes songs by Allan Taylor, Jez Lowe, Ralph McTell, Bob Dylan.
    Sheffield, South Yorkshire
    Telephone: 0114 284 5922

  • Mark Mawby
    Fine, traditional/Celtic guitar and accompaniment. Also available for teaching / workshops: solo traditional guitar and accompanying traditional music.
    Wakefield, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Wild Folk (agency)
    Telephone: 0781 6085494
    Email: info@wildfolk.co.uk
    Website: http://www.wildfolk.co.uk/

  • Simon Mayor and Hilary James
    Songs and tunes: folk, blues, swing and classical showstoppers. "Blurry fingered precision. Sweetly sung blues and folksongs and a wealth of mirthful anecdotes" -Glasgow Herald.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Anne Jones
    Telephone: 01189 268615
    Email: info@mandolin.co.uk
    Website: http://www.mandolin.co.uk/

  • Simon Mayor's Mandolinquents
    Britain's first modern mandolin quartet. Songs and tunes with mandolin, mandocello, mandola and mando-bass. Plus classical guitar, fiddle and banjo.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Anne Jones
    Telephone: 01189 268615
    Email: info@mandolin.co.uk
    Website: http://www.mandolin.co.uk/

  • Rod Meredith
    Solo vocals, all styles, guitar accompaniment. Bass guitar/vocals for ceilidh or jazz bands. Musicians union member.
    Settle, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01729 825466 / 01729 823247

  • Monkey's Fist
    4-piece Shanty group.
    York, North Yorkshire
    Telephone: 01904 400117
    Email: monkeysfist2001@aol.com
    Website: http://www.monkeysfist.f9.co.uk/

  • Monkey's Orphan
    Shanty Jack, Robin Garside and Paul Gough. Sea songs and shanties. A cappella and with fiddle, mandolin, melodeon and guitars.
    Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire
    Contact: Shanty Jack
    Telephone: 01472 696757 / 07970 651293
    Email: morphan@anchorage.f9.co.uk
    Website: http://www.monkeysorphan.co.uk/

  • More Strings than Sense
    Duo. Traditional and contemporary song.
    Rotherham, South Yorkshire
    Contact: Pete Thornton-Smith
    Telephone: 01709 546555
    Email: pts@barrel.demon.co.uk
    Website: http://www.barrel.demon.co.uk/MSTS.htm

  • Tony Morris
    Singer/songwriter in traditional unaccompanied style. Poet and improvising multi-instrumental musician. Does 'Bard' things.
    Workshops in poetry writing, performance and multi-instrumental improvisational accompaniment.
    Theatre in Education performance of 'Iron Rush', songs and facts about the Great North Yorkshire Iron Rush, 1850 to 1900, from the lips of Tom Lennard (born 1869).
    Address: 1 South View, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 1PQ
    Telephone: 01472 603757
    Email: tonymorrispoet@yahoo.co.uk
    Website: http://www.tonymorrispoet.com/
    See also Workshops

  • Musical Mystery Tour
    Children's show from Simon Mayor and Hilary James. Musical fun with original songs and traditional tunes for 5s to 11s. Many of the songs originally written for BBC radio and TV. Introduction to stringed instruments. Comedy.
    Ilkley, West Yorkshire
    Contact: Anne Jones
    Telephone: 01189 268615
    Email: info@childrensmusic.co.uk
    Website: http://www.childrensmusic.co.uk/

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