Last year’s BBC Radio 2 “Musician of the Year” Tim Edey is once again on the music magazine covers. Following “cover star” features in The Living Tradition and English Dance & Song magazine, the extraordinarily talented Tim is now gracing the front of the April issue of fRoots magazine having been interviewed by top music journalist Colin Irwin.

Tim, who also won the “Best Duo”  title in the 2012 Folk Awards with harmonica genius Brendan Power,  has announced he will be releasing a solo album of guitar music this August, augmented by a string quartet led by popular Scottish fiddler Patsy Reid (Vamm, Cecil Sharp Project) and formerly with Breabach. The album will be officially launched at Kent’s famous Broadstairs Folk Week in Tim’s home town – this year he has the honour of closing the festival on Friday, August 16 with support from inspired young Devon duo Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin.

A hot property in the contemporary worldwide Celtic music scene, Tim’s phenomenal melodeon and guitar playing is featured prominently on Irish legend Christy Moore’s 2011 album, and his touring and recording credits read like a who’s who of the Celtic scene: Capercaillie, Sharon Shannon, Lunasa, Michael McGoldrick, Seamus Begley, Altan and Mary Black. Tim has also recorded an album  with guest musicians Tim Edey: The Collective.

The brilliant, charismatic and jaw dropping Anglo-Irish multi-instrumentalist has been in demand since his wins at the Folk Awards. He has guested on BBC Radio 2’s Good Morning Sunday, Mike Harding and Simon Mayo  shows, BBC Radio 3’s “World on 3” and Radio 4’s Midweek and been seen on BBC South-East, Ireland’s RTE1 John Murray show and, with The Chieftains, Later with Jools.

Dividing his time between Scotland and Kent, he also released the eclectic The Best of Tim Edey - a superb 18-track album that charts the course of his career to date and showcases his collaborations with luminaries from the Celtic music world including Sharon Shannon, Ross Ainslie, Seamus Begley and Mike McGoldrick. It includes the track “Why”? which evolved into a tune questioning the condition OCD to which Tim is no stranger and with which he feels music has helped him cope.

In a dazzling display of fretwork and fingerwork, Edey demonstrates an intuitive flowing art and outstanding improvisational technique and is widely regarded as one of the finest multi instrumental players of his generation. The master musician is in constant demand on stage and in the studio and currently plays no less than 10 instruments - melodeon, accordion, acoustic guitar, banjo, bass, piano, mandolin, whistle, bodhran and bouzouki. For a taste of Tim’s multiple talents watch the video here...

Tim will be making several key appearances across the Atlantic this year. In July, he will perform at one of Canada’s biggest festivals - Stanfest – before appearing with top international fiddler Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy in Ontario and, in October, returning to Cape Breton’s world famous Celtic Colours festival followed by a Canadian tour with multi award-winning JP Cormier, the Canadian bluegrass/folk/Celtic singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Back in the UK, Tim will appear at Derbyshire’s Edale Folk Festival in May and in August, Towersey Festival and Broadstairs Folk Week where he will launch his guitar album and do a CD signing. Then in November, he has been invited to return to Dougie Maclean’s Perthshire Amber Festival. 

Things continue apace for one of the UK’s most outstanding musicians.