Folkscape Live began with a simple frustration.

Some of the best live folk performances in the country were happening in tiny venues, tucked away in market towns, village halls, arts centres, theatres, and festival tents, yet unless you happened to be in the room that night, they were gone the moment the final note faded out.

No recording. No archive. No way for wider audiences to experience them.

At the same time, audiences were spread across the UK and beyond. Some people could not travel. Some could not afford festival weekends or long drives across the country for a single concert. Others simply wanted a way to stay connected to artists and performances they loved between live shows.

Folkscape Live was never created to replace the live experience.

Nothing replaces being in the room. The sound of an audience singing together, the atmosphere before an encore, the conversations at the bar during the interval, the slightly wonky chair in the third row that somehow every venue still owns. That is part of folk music and always will be.

What Folkscape Live offers is something different.

A new way to experience live folk music. A chance to sit closer to the performance than most audiences ever can. To see the musicianship up close. To hear the stories clearly. To experience performances from venues and festivals you may never otherwise visit. To revisit special concerts long after the final applause.

The platform captures live folk performances with the care and attention normally associated with major broadcast productions, while still preserving the intimacy and honesty that make folk music special in the first place.

The catalogue includes concerts, sessions, documentaries, interviews, and exclusive productions featuring artists including Bellowhead, Seth Lakeman, Eliza Carthy, Show of Hands, Steve Knightley, Kathryn Tickell, Lindisfarne, Jackie Oates, The Young’uns, Gigspanner, McGoldrick McCusker and Doyle, Thea Gilmore, Lady Maisery, Breabach, and many more from across the folk, roots, and acoustic scene.

Some performances are filmed in packed theatres with hundreds of people singing along. Others happen in tiny spaces where every foot tap, breath, fiddle scrape, and creaking floorboard becomes part of the recording. Both matter equally.

Behind Folkscape is a team with decades of experience working across live television, concert touring, arts festivals, theatre productions, and large scale broadcasts throughout the UK and Europe. The technical side matters, because nobody wants buffering during the best chorus of the night, but the focus has always remained on the artists, the performances, and the audience experience.

Alongside live concerts and on demand performances, Folkscape Live also produces original content including The Black Box sessions, artist conversations, behind the scenes films, and documentaries exploring the stories behind the music.

Folk music continues to evolve. New artists are reshaping traditions, older songs are finding new audiences, and communities built around live performance remain just as important now as they have always been.

Folkscape Live exists to help those performances travel further, reach more people, and remain accessible long after the venue lights go down.

Whether it is a sold out theatre show, a late night festival set, or an intimate acoustic performance watched quietly at home with a cup of tea and questionable biscuit choices, FolkScape keeps live folk music within reach.

Welcome to Folkscape Live.