“Entirely convincing" - Radioshow Psyche Van Het Folk Belgium

Founding members Ben and Michelle are influenced by ‘70s legends like Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Bowie, Dead Can Dance.

Miki and his prog-rock keyboard playing brings a welcome Eastern European flavour to the band.

Andy contributes psychedelic and rock lead guitar lines in the style of his favourites like Led Zeppelin.

Jo and Amber bring a folk & jazz touch with sax & flute, and Clive gets his kicks from Greek and South American drum rhythms.

“Prog rock, celtic tunes and tight vocal harmony, spiked with prickly electric guitar. If you like Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and Jefferson Airplane, you won’t be disappointed” - Pagan Dawn Magazine

Magicfolk play gigs far and wide, from the 3 Wishes Faery Festival on Bodmin Moor where they supported Circulus and the Mediaeval Baebes, to places such as Priddy Folk Festival and London's Conway Hall at the Beltane Bash.

This year sees them headlining the Folk & Roots Festival in Manchester's fast-growing psychfolk scene, and across to Gloucester at the esoteric Druid Camp.

"Delicately spun... visiting the perfumed garden of psychedelia" - Rock’n’Reel Magazine

Last year Magicfolk launched their debut album which is available direct from this website (see 'Shop' page) - or as a download from Woven Wheat Whispers.

They will be starting work on a second album later this year where they may well go slightly more deranged and psychedelic than usual...

Mythology, folklore, mysticism and nature - or sometimes just downright weirdness - are the inspirations for Magicfolk.

"The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer mystery...

They put these ideas into contemporary settings with strong rock rhythms and melodies, as well as more restful atmospheric and ambient moods.

"Assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time... make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it...

The odd android also makes the occasional appearance.

"The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly...

"This, whatever you're doing now, may be your last act on earth. It may very well be your last battle... You have no time, my friend, no time. None of us have time." Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda

"An excellent slab of modern British folk-hippie-rock" Exposé Magazine

 

"The music is infectious, proving it impossible not to move your feet, but there are also numbers laced with a fragile beauty that transports you to other, more restful places" Tilting Sky Magazine

 

“Pink Floyd meets the Mediaeval Baebes” White Dragon Magazine

 

“This reminds me of a time when music was actually music” Garageband

"Cider drinking music - I love it! Really took me back to 70's England" STVC Buffalo, New York