Recently acclaimed as Folk Singer of the Year, Chris Wood appears in Leamington tonight. The self-taught guitarist and violin player picked up the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award in 2011 and the title ...

The distillation of ideas crammed into Chris Wood's magnificent new collection is breathtaking. "This pen will be worn out before too long/ There's a mile or two in every single song," The English ...

Chris Wood won both Folk Singer of the Year and Best Original Song with “Hollow Point”, his searing song about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. theartsdesk picked his last album, Handmade Life ...

ONE of Britain’s most uncompromising and committed singer songwriters, Chris Wood brings gravity and grace to any bill that bears his name, which is why Purbeck Folk Festival is delighted he ...

THE beloved Chris Wood is currently one of our top three folk practitioners*. He may be a curmudgeonly old so-and-so and possibly prefers to be on his allotment, but the stage is where he belongs ...

Albion: Chris Wood MULTIPLE-award winning singer, fiddler, viola and guitar player Chris Wood is about as far from the finger-in-your ear school of folk droners as it's possible to be.

The big winners of the night were Chris Wood, Bellowhead and, for a lifetime achievement award, Donovan, which was presented by Mark Radcliffe.Last night’s BBC Folk Awards are as showbiz as the folk ...

Bellowhead Bellowhead, Chris Wood and daughter-mother duo Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson each took away two trophies from the latest BBC Folk Awards in London last night, with Laura Marling‘s ‘Rambling ...