THE 2015 Beverley Folk Festival has a stellar line-up of award-winning artists, including nominees in this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Among those appearing are Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, who have been nominated for the Best Duo Award, and Nancy Kerr, who has been nominated for Folk Singer of the Year. Nancy is performing alongside the previous BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winning Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting.

Past winners and nominees include the multi award-winning young singer, Seth Lakeman, the Scottish group hailed as being the future of Celtic dance music, Peatbog Faeries, guitarist and singer, and Martin Simpson, who was nominated 23 times in 11 years and has won numerous awards.

Sharing the finale concert on the Sunday of the festival is Barbara Dickson, who co-hosted the Folk Awards for several years, along with the festival’s patron, Mike Harding.

A spokesman for Beverley Folk Festival said: “The line-up is certainly a celebration of some of the great young talent that is around on the folk and music scene at the moment as well as names that have been at the forefront of the music scene for many years.

“The festival very much celebrates young talent and its programme of activities during the year and over the festival weekend.”

They added: “It demonstrates its commitment to encouraging young performers to have a go and get on the ladder towards becoming professional performers, and take the next step to becoming future BBC Radio 2 Award winners.”

Beverley Folk Festival is on June 19 to 21.

To book, visit beverleyfestival.com