North Devon Coast and Country Chronicle: Wildwood Kin

Sunday 3 May 2015

From the Cardiff Millennium Centre to The Clinton Arms- Wildwood Kin to play their first North Devon Gig

In the wake of their performance at the BBC2 Folk Awards, Alt Folk band Wildwood Kin will be playing their first gig in North Devon at The Clinton Arms in Frithelstock, North Devon on the 8th May.They are one of the many quality music acts that appear at the Clinton Arms FREE live music sessions every Friday.

Wildwood Kin are an Exeter based alt folk band composed of Emillie Key, Beth Key, Meghann Loney. In 2013 Wildwood Kin won the Open Mic UK music competition at the NEC Birmingham against more than 9000 acts. This year they were nominated for the BB2 Young Folk Award and were shortlisted to the last 4 and performed on April 22nd at The Millennium Centre in Cardiff broadcast on Radio 2. April 2015 was a very busy month for Wildwood Kin as they also played with Seth Lakeman at The Watering Hole in Perranporth. Wildwood Kin have been compared to harmony focused bands such as Fleet Foxes. They grew up listening to a great diversity of music such as James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Queen. They also state they are influenced by The Staves, Mumford & Sons, James Taylor, Phil Collins, The Wailin' Jennies. Their harmonies are helped by being part of the same family and growing up together which was highlighted by Nancy Kerr (BBC Folk Singer of the Year). She said their harmonies were so gorgeous. “that sonically they were coming from the same place”. Emillie and Beth are sisters and Meg is their cousin.