Urban Folk Quartet

The Urban Folk Quartet perform a heady mix of traditional tunes from England and Spain, with a generous dash of vibrant fusion rhythms from the Birmingham scene.

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 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 they had a lot of common musical interests. They met Tom when he was experimenting with a Cajon-based drum set up, a sound that fitted perfectly with the concept of the band: so The Urban Folk Quartet was born.