London Folk Magazine and News
Pear O´Legs Records
Whilst our listings are on-hold and everyone´s staying home we have decided to run articles featuring some of the venues and promoters who have been with us since the beginning. These are people and organisations who have hosted many great folk events over the years, and we look forward to many more of their events in the future.
Our first feature is:
Pear O´Legs Records
Based in London and Bristol, Pear O´Legs is a not-for-profit label working with contemporary and traditional folk musicians around the UK.
Pear O’Legs Records formed in 2012 supporting the folk powerhouse Apple of my Eye and has since been adding bands to its community catalogue. Pear O’Legs is now branching out to share the beautiful music of these and other bands in London and Bristol with Pear O’Legs Records Presents.
Their artists include:
Uproarious troubadours of London’s modern folk scene. Their music blends traditional English folk with modern songwriting, using vocal harmonies and traditional instruments. Warm up your vocals and limber up, you’ll be singing and dancing through their whole set.
Hannah Donelon & Grace Lemon are a traditional vocal duo whose distinct voices blend together through haunting harmonies and ornamentation. With a background in traditional Irish music, the duo draw from an array of wider influences to reconfigure ballads and tell stories with contemporary resonance. Through the simplicity and rawness of their music, Hannah and Grace tell lucid narratives of the lives and landscapes preserved in old songs with sympathetic accompaniment on the hammered dulcimer and harmonium.
The new young blood of the London Folk scene, The Medlars are a seven piece psychedelic folk rock band with ‘acid-sharp observational lyrics’ FolkWords. They formed in early 2016 through Jimmy Grayburn, who at the time was performing as a solo artist. His lyrics tackle issues around environmentalism, homelessness and austerity cuts and are accompanied by the Medlars’ unique and frank sound.
THE NIGHTJAR
Originally conceived as a close-harmony vocal trio, a collaboration with South London producer Kams brought them to the attention of Boiler Room’s Joe Muggs. The ensuing Boiler Room debut went viral, and brought their 2015 The Nightjar EP plaudits from nearly 70,000 underground music fans, as well as the accolade of airplay on Radio 3’s Late Junction. A successful crowd-funding campaign convinced them of the existence of an audience for their dream-like, ethereal songs of hope, loss and disaster and, in the autumn of 2015, The Nightjar relocated to a farmhouse in rural Portugal to begin their first full-length offering.
Originally conceived as a close-harmony vocal trio, a collaboration with South London producer Kams brought them to the attention of Boiler Room’s Joe Muggs. The ensuing Boiler Room debut went viral, and brought their 2015 The Nightjar EP plaudits from nearly 70,000 underground music fans, as well as the accolade of airplay on Radio 3’s Late Junction. A successful crowd-funding campaign convinced them of the existence of an audience for their dream-like, ethereal songs of hope, loss and disaster and, in the autumn of 2015, The Nightjar relocated to a farmhouse in rural Portugal to begin their first full-length offering.
