Jack Durtnall is a multi-instrumentalist, soprano saxophonist and singer. A lover of folksong and nature connection, Jack is a keen improviser and listener able to blend and bridge the traditionally jazz-orientated tones of the saxophone into the realms of folk. Jack is also a song carrier, giving voice to the old traditional songs of Britain and Ireland, as well as bringing through contemporary folk songs in his own writing.

Clarinettist, composer and maker Jack McNeill is a musician exploring the intersections of different traditions and sound worlds. Director of the 12-piece cross-genre Propellor, who create audio-visual performances mapping our collective experience of the natural world. He makes work that sits somewhere between live music, theatre and radio.

Playing low, rarified woodwinds and primarily bass clarinet, Chris Cundy explores a music where free improvisation and composition meet, drawing on self-developed playing techniques such as multiphonics, circular breathing, and microtonal voicings.

Temesgen Zeleke is a leading exponent of the Ethiopian krar lyre. Born in Addis Ababa, where he studied under Ethiojazz bandleader Mulatu Astake, he now leads the London-based group Krar Collective, who have toured internationally and collaborated with Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project.

Dylan Walker is an ecologist and founder of Wilderlife. During his fun and interactive talks and walks Dylan shows us how to rewild the places we call home by channelling the wild instincts of beaver, boar, bear and more! With thought-provoking insights on how these large animals engineered our landscapes and practical advice for you to take away with you, a walk in the woods may never seem the same again!

Charlotte Pulver is a modern-day alchemist and lover of the waters; being born into the Pulver lineage of apothecarians. She has a background in natural healthcare, studying and practising various medical systems of healing for 20+ years. Her love is rooted in making medicines for people which she sells through ‘Pulver’s Apothecary’. It is during her time of studies she came across healing practises that involved water which sparked and renewed a long life journey in her work with water.

For the last 15 years Naamah Pinkerfeld has been leading community choirs and groups, mostly in East Sussex but also in London; teaching much-loved and deeply-enjoyed songs to many (both traditional and more modern folk songs from England as well as from other places). Her main ongoing weekly Forest Choirs have been going strong since 2008 and in recent years have taken place in a beautiful spot on the Ashdown Forest (in the warmer spring/summer months)!

Lora’s practice embraces interests in herbal art, explorative foraging, wild foods and plant medicine. She shares her research by re-telling, researching and reviving the wisdoms of the environment, through practical uses. Landscapes and the world of plants they are home to can be hard to navigate, so her creative practice takes the outside inside, inviting other people to join this journey, on her walks, by application of foraged materials in traditional and digital practice.

The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small, brown, unremarkable-looking bird, but they possess one of nature’s finest singing voices. The English population winters in Sub-Saharan Africa in the western countries like Sierra Leon and Senegal, returning to the very same thicket they were born in arriving in early to mid-April. They spend April to the end of May mating and nesting where we can encounter the extraordinary display of the males’ courtship song, famous for his all-night broadcast.

Sam is a folksinger, song collector, activist, nature conservationist, guide, and presenter. With three critically acclaimed albums - his debut receiving a Mercury Music Prize nomination - he works holistically in challenging the sound and purpose of our indigenous music in the 21st Century.

Angharad Wynne is a writer and storyteller, a place-maker and heritage specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field, working both within Wales, in the UK, Ireland and US. She is also a speaker and retreat and expedition leader.