Kinmara · Modern folk · Indie pop
A folk wedding band led by a fiddle.
Fiddle-led folk while everyone finds the room. Indie pop until the lights come on.
“My Irish family in particular loved the folk session and got the party started.”
What Kinmara actually sounds like
Four musicians, built around a fiddle, playing instruments you can see.
If the names that come to mind are Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers or Of Monsters and Men, you are in roughly the right area. Kinmara plays stomping, harmony led folk alongside quieter acoustic ballads, and the fiddle sits at the front of most of it.
Because we close mic the whole band as standard, we can also give you a studio mixed recording of your first dance, mixed and mastered at Gallery Studios in London rather than captured on a phone at the back of the room.
The first set leans properly folk. Later on, once the room has loosened up, we move into indie pop and chart songs given the same acoustic treatment, so the night builds instead of changing genre on people halfway through.
It works in a converted barn in the Cotswolds, a tipi in a Sussex field or a marquee in a Scottish glen, because an acoustic band belongs in rooms like that rather than having to fight them.
Acoustic guitar
The backbone of everything we play, rather than an accent on top of a backing track.
A singing fiddle player
Not a violinist booked in for an hour. Our singer plays it, and the folk set is built around it.
Close harmony
Three and four part vocals, which is what makes the big folk choruses land the way they should.
As big as you need
An acoustic duo for the ceremony, or the full band with drums and bass once the dancing starts.
Where the Mumford comparison comes from
It is the comparison couples reach for most often, and we do not mind it. Their songs are among the most requested things we play, and the lineup lines up neatly: guitar, fiddle and a lot of voices going at once. I Will Wait and Little Lion Man are usually in there somewhere.
The reason they work for us is that we are not covering them over a backing track. Four people singing hard at the same time is the actual mechanism behind that sound, and it is the same mechanism whether the song is theirs or not.
Past that, Kinmara's setlist takes in The Lumineers, Ben Howard, Hozier, George Ezra and Vance Joy, plus chart songs rearranged to sit alongside them. Guests tend to recognise more of the night than they expect to.
Plus 50+ more folk, indie, and pop songs with our signature acoustic arrangements.
Fancy a few Irish singalongs?
We are a folk band first. But a lot of the couples who find us want a few Irish singalongs woven in, the ones that get grandparents and cousins up on their feet together by the second chorus. So we built that into what we do: fiddle-led, with big harmonies and the energy those songs are meant to have, and without pretending to be a ceilidh band or a pure trad session.
The important part: you pick the balance. Some couples want a whole run of Irish crowd-pleasers late in the night. Others want one or two folded into an otherwise folk and indie set, and plenty want none at all. None of it is compulsory. Tell us where you sit and we build the night around it.
With reels and jigs woven through them: Drowsy Maggie, The Kesh Jig, Swallowtail Jig, The Maid Behind the Bar, Cooley's Reel, The Butterfly, Out on the Ocean.
A taste of the Irish singalongs we get asked for. Full setlist on request.
Where the violin fits
The same instrument, doing two very different jobs across the day.
In the daytime it is the quiet one. A single fiddle line under a ceremony carries further than a guitar does, and it holds a room that has gone silent without anyone having to turn anything up.
By the evening it is doing the opposite job. Driving fiddle over a full band is what gives folk its momentum, and it is the difference between a dancefloor that politely fills and one that goes properly.
You can have it either way round. Our Acoustic Quartet covers the daytime with violin, guitar, cajon and vocals, or the violin can simply stay with the full band all night. First dances in particular tend to be worth doing with a live fiddle rather than without one.
Ceremony Violin
Solo violin or with acoustic guitar for processional, signing, and recessional music.
Acoustic Quartet
Violin, guitar, cajon, and vocals for drinks receptions and daytime entertainment.
Full Evening Band + Violin
The complete folk wedding band experience with violin driving the energy all night.
Barns, tipis and open fields
The rustic end of things is where an acoustic band makes the most sense.
Our acoustic-driven folk sound fills barn spaces beautifully, with natural resonance that suits exposed beams, fairy lights, and rustic decor. We bring compact, professional PA systems that deliver full sound without overwhelming intimate barn settings.
Festival-style tipi weddings and marquee celebrations are our natural habitat. Our rustic folk wedding band vibe pairs perfectly with the relaxed, bohemian atmosphere. We can even offer roaming folk performances between tipis.
From country house gardens to woodland clearings, our folk music sounds stunning outdoors. We carry weather-proof equipment and can perform fully acoustic for unplugged ceremony sets under the trees.
A converted Sussex barn, a Yorkshire tipi field, a Scottish country estate. Kinmara has played all three, and the sound suits them without needing to be forced into them.
Watch us play
A few of our favourite live performances, so you can hear it rather than read about it.
Questions couples ask us
The things that come up most when people are weighing up a folk band.
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Why Book Us?
- 4-Piece Professional Band
- High-End PA & Lighting Included
- No Hidden Agency or Management Fees
- PAT Tested & PLI Insured
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We also play regularly across Essex, Hertfordshire and the rest of the Home Counties, and travel nationwide.