CURRENT PROJECTS
THE FINN COLLINSON BAND
The Finn Collinson Band has now been touring for over five years. The current line-up features a rhythm section of guitar/accordion and percussion sitting beneath Finn's recorder tunes. The band will be returning for festivals and an autumn tour in 2025.
The band for 2025 comprises virtuosic musicians Archie Churchill-Moss (diatonic accordion, guitar) and Evan Carson (bodhran, percussion). Former collaborators in this flexible line-up include Jonno Gaze, Tom Leader and Emma Beach.
FINN COLLINSON: SOLO
Finn started performing solo gigs in 2017. His solo performances span original tunes and little-known material drawn from the recorder’s vast and fascinating baroque and early repertoire, along with material from the folk canon. They are intimate and intricate occasions with Finn's recorders at the heart of the performance. Finn was a New Roots finalist in 2017 and 2019, and shortlisted for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2018. Finn will be making a handful of solo appearances in 2024 and 2025.
STROMA
Stroma is a ceilidh collective co-founded by Finn with Jordan Murray, Bríona Mannion and Caitlin Heathcote in 2018. Now a small family of musicians offering a flexible line-up, the band has performed for public and private ceilidh events across the UK and Europe. Stroma also promote their own ceilidhs and their first UK tour will take place in October 2024.
COMING IN 2025
- The Jennie Higgins Band (guitar, bouzouki)
- Akenfield (musical director, composer)
PAST PROJECTS
AURAI (2017-2022)
London-based recorder quartet Aurai comprises alumni from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Equally at home performing medieval, renaissance, baroque or contemporary repertoire, the quartet were awarded the Royal Wind Music Prize at the Open Recorder Days Amsterdam competition in 2019, the only UK prizewinners.
SHORELARK (2015-2018)
Contemporary folk duo featuring Finn on recorder, mandolin, bouzouki and vocals alongside Georgia Morgan Turner (guitar, vocals, percussion). Gigs included appearances at Sidmouth FolkWeek, FolkEast, Broadstairs Folk Week, Looe Music Festival and folk clubs in London, Colchester, Norwich and Hitchin. Finalists in the 2016 New Roots competition.
TILLY MOSES (2014-2017)
Finn was a collaborator with folk/acoustic singer-songwriter Tilly Moses (formerly known as Tilly Dalglish); they appeared as a duo at FolkEast, Folk in a Field, Ipswich Music Day, Folkroom @ The Harrison, Cambridge Folk Club and The Quay Theatre (Sudbury) amongst other local venues and festivals. Finn is also featured heavily on Tilly’s debut album Alight & Adrift, released summer 2017.
DISCOGRAPHY
2015 - SHORELARK - Longwayes for Six (producer, performer, writer, engineer)
2017 - TILLY MOSES - Alight & Adrift (performer, arranger)
2017 - THE YOUNG'UNS - Strangers (chorus vocals with Aldeburgh Young Musicians)
2019 - FINN COLLINSON - Call To Mind (producer, performer, writer, engineer)
2020 - KEV WALFORD - Americanarama (performer)
2020 - ELYE CUTHBERTSON - Covid 19 Compositions (performer)
2022 - FINN COLLINSON - The Threshold (producer, performer, writer, engineer)