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SAM GRASSIE is a fingerstyle guitarist & songwriter from Glasgow.
A rising star in the world of trad folk, he’s part of folk collective Broadside Hacks and wears his Bert Jansch influence on his sleeve, but his debut EP Sandwood — a flurry of woodwind, sax, drones, and double bass — carves out a sound of his very own, which is built on by his newly released 2025 EP, "Jarabi, Winter Has Gone." This he describes as "a marriage of celtic trad and malian blues." With support from the Bert Jansch Foundation and appearances at Green Man Festival among many others besides, he's very much a force to be reckoned with in the world of trad folk music.
Guitarist and songwriter CIAN NUGENT hails from Dublin, Ireland. His playing style, while quite unique, derives from many sources. Early recordings reveal the deep influence of the American Primitive players including and and the great British folk guitarists such as , , and . Along the way, more idiosyncratic sources made themselves known in his playing and composing: he is equally obsessed with blues and traditional musics, late-'60s and '70s singer/songwriters, jazz (of many stripes), 20th century classical composition (notably 's), electric folk (), and rockist sources such as and . His playing has also opened up to show that he'd spent serious time deep-listening to modern guitarists including , , and Jack Rose.
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