Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer-songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night. Compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews, he has created his own style and reputation as a mesmerising live performer and stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives. A unique talent driven by passion, social awareness, and love for his trade, he’s a jaw dropping guitar player who has developed a unique percussive style, teamed up with a powerful show stopping voice, and has been called ‘The Welsh Springsteen’. In April 2019 he won a “Wales Folk Award” for “Here Come the Young”, and in 2023 he was nominated for Best Solo Artist. His critically acclaimed 2021 record, ‘1960’ was made Folk Album of The Month in Mojo and awarded 4 starts by Uncut, and remained in the UK Official Folk charts for much of 2022. In 2024 he was invited by BBC Radio 2 for a second time to write a song as part of their brand new award winning ’21st Century Folk’ project, penning and performing ‘Chapel Porth Beach’, to mark the 200th Anniversary of the RNLI. This was following on from the success of his 2023 track, ‘Albert’s Place’, which featured in the original series, and which included appearances on BBC Breakfast TV, the Jeremy Vine and Ken Bruce shows on BBC Radio 2 along with Radio 4’s World at One. Website: www.martynjoseph.net Facebook: www.facebook.com/martynjosephwales Instagram: @martynjosephmusic Venue: Auditorium, Exeter Phoenix