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We’re thrilled to complete our 2024 line-up with the addition of American band Darlingside for the Main Stage bill and HEISK, Cahalen Morrison and Lucy Farrell for the Acorn Stage.
Boston-based Darlingside are renowned for their multi-layered, sophisticated and engaging vocal harmonies, precision playing and extraordinary live performances. The band have long been a favourite of the Folk by the Oak team. Their vocal harmonies have a special chemistry and charm that sets songs alight, making them perfect for a sublime afternoon set at Folk by the Oak!
Our Acorn Stage is our place to share inspiring and ground-breaking talent with our wonderful audience, our final 3 announcements fit this bill perfectly!
* HEISK – a dazzling and captivating six-piece folk band that redefines the traditional music landscape by infusing Scottish roots with contemporary energy
* Cahalen Morrison – an accomplished roots multi-instrumentalist, captivating singer and poetic wordsmith who is widely recognised as a unique voice in American music
* Lucy Farrell – one of the leading contemporary English folk artists with an uncanny ability to weave unconventional melodies, sophisticated song-writing and beguiling vocals into enthralling live performances
Head to our Line-Up Page to see all the incredible musicians you can enjoy at Folk by the Oak this July!
With more names yet to be added to the bill, our line-up is already hitting all the high notes! Joining Levellers, Seckou Keita’s Homeland Band and The Young’uns on the Main Stage line-up are The Staves, a superb indie-folk band featuring the skilful musicianship and exquisite harmonies of Jessica Staveley-Taylor (vocals/guitar) and Camilla Staveley-Taylor (vocals/ukulele).
We last welcomed The Staves to Folk by the Oak in 2019 and their performance was nothing short of exceptional. The combination of their outstanding musical talents and sisterly banter make them one of the best bands you will catch live this summer and we can’t wait to welcome them back to our Main Stage!
We pride ourselves on bringing together internationally renowned artists and exciting up-and-coming talent for our festival, and 2024 is no exception. Iconic band Levellers will headline the Main Stage, with a high energy set packed with their most loved tracks, while Essex legend and festival favourite Beans on Toast will headline our Acorn Stage.
Folk by the Oak regulars will recognise Kora master Seckou Keita who has wowed in previous years as both a solo performer and in collaboration with Catrin Finch and the Spell Songs band. He returns to our Main Stage with his new collaboration, the Homeland Band, featuring an array of exceptionally talented artists and promising an uplifting, upbeat set.
Also returning to the Main stage are The Young’uns, with their spine-tingling harmonies, heart-on-the-sleeve storytelling and raucous humour, while making their first appearance here is the The Furrow Collective, a collaboration between 4 seriously talented individuals drawn together by a shared love of traditional song and balladry: Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts.
Joining the Acorn Stage line-up are the Malin Lewis Trio and the Grace Smith Trio, both offering an innovative and boundary pushing approach to folk music
With 4 more artists to be announced for the Acorn Stage and one more Main Stage announcement tantalisingly close, we are thrilled with the line-up so far and can’t wait for July!
Following the announcement that legendary band Levellers will headline Folk by the Oak 2024, with a high energy set packed with their most loved tracks, we hvae added six more names to our ‘line-up of headliners’!
Headlining our Acorn Stage is Essex legend Beans on Toast, a prolific writer and performer renowned for live shows that are both unpredictable and memorable, packed with protest songs for the modern-day, honest and open love songs, songs to make you laugh and songs to make you think. His no holds barred honesty and quick wit make Beans on Toast a firm festival favourite and we can’t wait to see him in action at Folk by the Oak!
Kora master Seckou Keita is also a firm favourite of team Folk by the Oak, having thrilled us in previous years as both a solo performer and in collaboration with Catrin Finch and the Spell Songs band. He returns to the festival Main Stage with his new collaboration, the Homeland Band, featuring one of Senegal’s best-known vocalists, Korka Dieng, and Moustapha Gaye, lead guitarist for Youssou n’Dour, plus an array of exceptionally talented artists. This uplifting, upbeat set promises to have you on your feet and leave you buzzing.
Also returning to the Main stage are The Young’uns. Their powerful songs, spine tingling harmonies, heart-on-the-sleeve storytelling and raucous humour went down a storm at their last appearance, so we are delighted to welcome The Young’uns back this summer.
Joining the Main Stage line-up in their first appearance in our leafy festival arena is The Furrow Collective, a collaboration between 4 seriously talented individuals drawn together by a shared love of traditional song and balladry and featuring a heady mix of exceptional musicianship and fine vocal harmonies from Lucy Farrell, Rachel Newton, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts.
We’re also over the moon to bring to our Acorn Stage the Malin Lewis Trio and the Grace Smith Trio, both offering an innovative and boundary pushing approach to folk music.
The award-winning composer and hugely talented performer Malin melds West coast tradition with hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies, all played on their newly invented, self-made bagpipe, performing with Sally Simpson on fiddle and Ali Hutton on guitar.
Acclaimed fiddle and viola player Grace Smith is joined by Sam Partridge (Concertina, Electric Guitar) and Bevan Morris (Double Bass) as The Grace Smith Trio, weaving the distinct voices of fiddle, concertina and double base into a dynamic and expressive musical dialogue.
Our first 2024 line-up announcement – and it’s a big one!
Since their mighty performance at Folk by the Oak 2017 you, our wonderful audience, have made many requests for the return of legendary band Levellers. One of the most sought-after festival bands in the country, we are so excited to welcome them back to close our 2024 festival with an explosive set of much-loved hits.
Formed in the late 1980s in Brighton, the band’s second album, Levelling the Land, included such seminal tracks as One Way, 15 Years and Liberty Song, and catapulted them to the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury as headliners in 1994. What a Beautiful Day, one of their most successful singles, was released in 1997 but remains a festival anthem to this day. Levellers legion of loyal fans is rapidly expanding with new devotees thanks to their Top 20 albums We The Collective and Together All The Way released in March 2023, both acoustic reworkings of their much loved back catalogues
Of course, the Levellers you will see at Folk by the Oak will be the electric version, literally and metaphorically, as they close the Main Stage with another rousing, high energy set packed with the tracks you know and love. We can’t wait!