Roy Bailey, was an English sociologist and folk singer. Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo said Bailey represented "the very soul of folk's working class ideals... a triumphal homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music industry."
Roy Bailey at Towersey Festival, 2018
Roy Bailey at Bromyard Folk Festival, 2007
Performing his final Monday afternoon concert at Towersey Festival 2018, with a band including Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Marc Block, Kit Bailey and Max Simpson
Leon Rosselson is an English songwriter and writer of children's books. After his early involvement in the folk music revival in Britain, he came to prominence, singing his own satirical songs, in the BBC's topical TV programme of the early 1960s, That Was The Week That Was. He toured Britain and abroad, singing mainly his own songs and accompanying himself with acoustic guitar.
Rosselson at Bolton Socialist Club, November 2019
Leon Rosselson (right), performing with Ian Saville and "William Morris"