Jim Moray Band

Jim Moray is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer who has created startlingly contemporary recordings of England’s traditional songs on the album Sweet England, described as the most significant development in folk music in the last 30 years.

‘The reinvention of folk music, Jim Moray’s debut CD, a word-of-mouth sensation, is the biggest leap forward in folk for 30 years.’ The Telegraph

‘Moray’s inventive rearrangement of such familiar ballads as Early One Morning and Raggle Taggle Gypsies may just be the most significant new development in English folk music since Fairport Convention’s Liege and Leif.’ Uncut

Jim has gone from performing in local folk clubs to playing the main stage at Cambridge Folk Festival, Sidmouth Folk Festival, WOMAD and beyond. In 2004 he received both the Horizon Award as best newcomer and the prestigious Album Of The Year Award for Sweet England at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Two further albums Jim Moray and Low Culture won the fRoots Critics’ Poll Album of the Year Award, Mojo’s Folk Album of the Year and three nominations in the BBC Folk Awards 2009.

He most recently broke with convention, giving his fourth album In Modern History away on the cover of Songlines magazine before releasing a deluxe two-disc version in June 2010.

He has branched out as producer of his sister Jackie Oates’s award-winning Hyperboreans album and been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Birmingham Conservatoire for outstanding achievement in music.

Visit Jim Moray’s website.