Greg Russell and Ray Hearne
Greg Russell - BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Winner
Possessed of an extraordinary and distinctive voice Greg is a singer, multi-instrumentalist (Guitar, Bouzouki, Piano), songwriter and interpreter of the finest water. Greg has taken the British folk music scene by storm. With his duo partner he won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk and Horizon Awards in 2013 and 2014 respectively and last year they were nominated for Best Duo.
Greg is appearing at the Rockhampton Folk Festival this year alongside Ray Hearne. You can find out more about Greg here.
Greg is appearing at the Rockhampton Folk Festival this year alongside Ray Hearne. You can find out more about Greg here.
"Greg Russell plays and sings with a maturity and emotion that belies his tender years. It is so rare to find new performers who have the confidence to play with this delicacy of touch and yet to sing in such a heartfelt way. He will, I think, go far".
BBC Radio 2's Mark Radcliffe
Ray Hearne - a Yorkshire Irish Kid
Ray grew up in an immigrant family from rural Kilkenny, who landed in Industrial South Yorkshire in the 1950s. That’s where Ray became what he has remained; a Yorkshire Irish kid. His life and music has been nurtured by two manners of speaking, two ways of telling the tale, two entirely different traditions of saying English words, singingly.
The blarneying, expressive, lyrical, romantic, somehow feminine Irish, and the more reticent, unornamented, grittily realistic, frequently monosyllabic, more masculine Yorkshire. Ray draws on the deep musics of both to nourish his own writing.
Find out all about Ray here.
The blarneying, expressive, lyrical, romantic, somehow feminine Irish, and the more reticent, unornamented, grittily realistic, frequently monosyllabic, more masculine Yorkshire. Ray draws on the deep musics of both to nourish his own writing.
Find out all about Ray here.
