Claire Vine is a folk singer and songwriter based in Machynlleth, Wales. Her solo project fearlessly explores urgent themes of land rights, oppression, climate change and inequality, in timeless songs that sound like they've always existed. Using subtle electronics to layer her voice into a haunting choir, she creates a space for her listeners to collectively feel the grief expressed in her music, offering a moment of shared catharsis. She is also a skilled song-interpreter, delivering classics from the traditional/folk revival canon with a new and profound humanity.
Claire Vine will release her debut solo album We Carve Our Path on 13 March 2026 on Bristol-based community label Cuculi Records, who also released her debut EP Tunnel in 2020. With a thread of unequivocal political urgency running throughout, this evocative collection features five original songs and five highly inventive interpretations of songs drawn from the traditional canon and the repertoire of folk legends Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl.
Claire Vine
Claire Vine - Eyes Wide Open
Claire Vine - Lost at Sea
Live dates
29 Jan - House Concert Oxford (email for details)
31 Jan - St Clements Centre Oxford (Medical Aid for Palestine fundraiser)
6 Feb 2026 - Trawsnewid / Transform Festival Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Album launch tour
5 March - The Folklore Rooms Brighton
8 March - The Wight Bear Southbourne-on-Sea
13 March - Sploj Machynlleth
14 March - Venue TBA Sir Benfr/Pembrokeshire
19 March - The Greenbank Bristol
Claire is a member of long-running psychfolk band Hands of the Heron, contributing songs and arrangements to albums 13 Moons and Quiet Light, and touring extensively at venues and festivals across the UK. She also on occasion performs with respected vocal/percussion ensemble Tryani Collective and new alt-folk/pop project Kai & Hollis.
Other projects
Claire collaborated with new drone folk project Woodfolk for their EP Oak released June 2024. On the collection she transforms poem ‘The Brave Old Oak’ into a folksong melody that could be centuries old, with her voice split and blended in captivating harmonies. She also features on lead single ‘Before The Land Was Cleared’. Above shuddering layers of harmonium, electric guitar & percussive sounds, Vine’s voice soars and then warps, looping over itself, as she laments the destruction of old forest.
Claire has also recently been granted the DYCP grant from Arts Council England, supporting her to develop her singing and songwriting craft alongside working on a series of collaborative song-writing workshops relating to climate justice and climate grief.
Hands of the Heron - Pieces of Me
Woodfolk - Before the Land was Cleared
Get In Touch
Contact me for gigs, videos, and album inquiries.
