Sam Kelly Trio
Sam Kelly has long been a firm favourite with Kimpton Folk Festival audience. This year the award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist will be joined by long-time collaborator Jamie Francis on banjo and virtuoso cellist Graham Coe. Expect haunting melodies, driving rhythms, immaculate musicianship and tons of fun.
While, Matthews and While
This folk music supergroup brings together two acclaimed duos to form one extraordinary trio. Chris and Kellie While offer the kind of stunning vocal harmonies that only a mother and daughter can achieve, and together with Chris’ long-term singing partner Julie Matthews, deliver spine-tinglingly brilliant traditional and original songs.
Louise & Chris Rogan
Described as having a “pure and soaring voice”, Louise Rogan is a performer of the highest quality. Audiences enjoy her arrangements of traditional favourites as well as her self-penned songs. Currently performing as a duo with her Dad, Chris Rogan, the pair have been described as “flawless performers” by FATEA’s Tim Fox. “With his guitar and vocals added to Louise’s piano and wonderful vocal, the pairing is one which sits so easily with one another”.
As a duo, they released their début album “Things That Matter”. The album is a mix of traditional and original songs which Bob Leslie of FATEA Magazine described as “one of the best début releases in the tradition genre I have heard”.