Old Man Luedecke
Old Man Luedecke is the recording and performing name of multiple award-winning, Canadian roots singer-songwriter Christopher Luedecke. Born in Toronto, but now based in Nova Scotia, from the...
Moonlight Benjamin
Moonlight Benjamin (real name), is born in 1971 in Haiti and grew up in a protestant orphanage, learning how to sing at church. But quickly she left Church songs and gospel to a more personal musical...
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Miatta Fahnbulleh is the Chief Executive of New Economics Foundation. Miatta has a wealth of experience in developing and delivering policy to empower communities and change people's lives. She...
Josh Okeefe
In 2012, Derby, England native and folk-singer Josh Okeefe dropped out of school, traveled across the Atlantic and arrived in Nashville, TN in search of the places his idols Hank Williams and Johnny...
Mariam Khan
Mariam Khan is a writer and activist. She is a contributor to Nikesh Shukla's forthcoming anthology Rife: Twenty Stories from Britain's Youth, writing on the policing and politicisation of...
Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo is a life-long social justice and environmental campaigner hailing from South Africa. Born in Durban in 1965, Kumi's first taste of activism came at age 15 when he organised and took...
Les Amazones d’Afrique
The first all-female supergroup of West Africa, the collective Les Amazones d'Afrique, is an event for world music. Whether they are undisputed stars or well-kept secrets, the musicians involved...
Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is the author of three books: The People Vs Tech (2018) about data and democracies (Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize), Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and the...
Lucy Spraggan
Lucy Spraggan is in a good place and wants to share it with you. She is happy in love, life and music: three things that are reflected in the anthemic, upbeat, and infectious sound of her new...
J.P. Bimeni & The Black Belts
A royal refugee turned soul survivor with a remarkable story of resistance having fled Burundi's civil war after three attempts on his life, landing in Wales as a teenager. On his debut album Free...
Gentlemen of Few
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Finalists, Gentlemen of Few, play an eclectic blend of indie-folk and classic rock with skilful vocal harmonies and powerful lyrics. They perform their music with a raw...
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
In 2016, Frank Turner was reading a collection of poetry by Clive James when one line stopped him in his tracks. It was from a poem titled Leçons Des Ténèbres: “I should have been more kind. It...
Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is the New Statesman's economic commentator and a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). She is the author of a forthcoming book on the...
Gurminder Bhambra
Gurminder K Bhambra is the author of the award-winning 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (Palgrave, 2007) She also wrote 'Connected Sociologies' (Bloomsbury,...
Gregory Alan Isakov
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now calling Colorado home, horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds. With songs...