Southern Tenant Folk Union is a Scottish folk group based in Edinburgh.[1][3][4] The group combines English and Celtic folk sounds with American bluegrass music.[3][5]
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Southern Tenant Folk Union |
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| Origin | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK[1] |
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| Genres | Acoustic folk[2] Bluegrass |
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| Years active | 2006–present[3] |
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| Labels | Johnny Rock Records;[3] Ugly Nephew Records |
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| Members | Southern Tenant Folk Union - Rory Butler – guitar and lead vocals; Steve Fivey – percussion; Katherine Stewart – fiddle and vocals; Pat McGarvey – banjo and vocals - The Southern Tenant - Pat McGarvey - synths, programming, guitar, bass and vocals; Steve Ironside - synths, programming and drum machines |
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| Past members | Oliver Talkes – guitar and vocals; Pete Gow – guitar, harmonica and vocals; Eamonn Flynn – mandolin and vocals; Matt Lloyd – upright bass and vocals; Frances Vaux – fiddle and vocals; Roddy Neilson – fiddle and vocals; Silas Child – double bass; Cammie Henderson – fiddle; John Langan – lead vocals and percussion; Jed Milroy – lead vocals, guitar, clarinet, harmonica and clawhammer banjo; Ewan Macintyre – lead vocals, harmonica, guitar and percussion; Jenny Hill – double bass; Marty Camino – double bass; Adam Bulley – mandolin; Carrie Thomas – fiddle; Alex Hunter – double bass; Dirk Ronneburg - fiddle; Danny Hart - mandolin: Richard Kass - percussion; Craig Macfadyen – double bass; Chris Purcell – guitar and lead vocals; Doug Kemp – double bass; |
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| Website | www.southerntenantfolkunion.com |
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The band was formed by five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey, who was born in Belfast.
The band performed on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show on 15 September 2013.[6]
There is additionally an electronic version of the band led by Pat McGarvey called The Southern Tenant[usurped] making synth and soundtrack related music that have released two albums to date, and have a third coming out on 30/9/2022 called Halloween Hits Vol. 1