Tim Edey BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Musician of the Year 2012

Multi-instrumental genius Tim Edey is the cover feature artist of the new issue of The Living Tradition magazine. In addition to Fiona Heywood’s insightful article about the Kent musician, there is also a review of his new 18-track album The Best of Tim Edey by Jim Byrne who concludes:“Tim plays a host of different instruments to a standard us mere mortals can only dream of. Listen and weep. Nothing short of spectacular”.www.livingtradition.co.uk

Melodeon and guitar player Edey was named Musician of the Year at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in February and also clinched the Best Duo title with harmonica king Brendan Power, with whom just a year ago he formed an instant hit partnership. Since then, Edey has appeared at 19 European concert halls with the legendary Irish supergroup The Chieftains on their 50th anniversary “Voice of Ages” tour, been seen and heard on programmes including TV’s Later with Jools, BBC Radio 2’s Simon Mayo show, BBC South-East TV, BBC Radio 2’s Mike Harding Show, BBC Radio 3’s World on 3 and BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, interviewed by Libby Purves.

Together with Brendan Power, Tim plays Cambridge Folk Festival this Thursday/Friday (26th/27th) and Warwick Folk Festival on July 29 before solo appearances at Sidmouth and Cornwall Folk Festivals. He will be touring this autumn, appearing solo at Dougie Maclean’s Perthshire Amber festival in November and will end the year with a Celtic Christmas tour between December 15-22.  

See Tim performing his composition Little Bird: