The Urban Folk Quartet

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From the heady mix of traditional tunes of England and Spain to the vibrant fusion rhythms of the Birmingham scene comes The Urban Folk Quartet.

The band consists of demon fiddle players Joe Broughton (Albion Band, Feast of Fiddles) and Paloma Trigas (Carlos Nunez) with the irrepressible multi instrumentalist Frank Moon and storming rhythms from Tom Chapman.

Having been discovered in their early teens by legendary artists The Albion Band and Carlos Nunez respectively, Joe and Paloma’s careers have in many ways taken parallel paths, both gaining much experience touring the world. In 2004 they performed their first fiddle duet together to great acclaim and so the seeds for the Urban Folk Quartet were born. Joe and Frank met at the Birmingham Conservatoire School of Music and realised that had a lot of common musical interests. Doubtless their conversations about folk and world music led to a foundation of the quartet’s sound. Finding Tom experimenting with a Cajon based drum set up that provided the full percussion sound that fitted perfectly with the concept of the band and completed the picture. The Urban Folk Quartet was born.