Chris Foster

YOU CAN NOW BUY ALL CHRIS’ CD’s DIRECT ONLINE FROM http://www.abicat.co.uk/chrisfoster/chrisfoster.htm English, but since 2004 resident in Iceland, Chris Foster is a master of his trade. He was recently described as “one of the finest singers and most thoughtful inventive guitar accompanists of English folk songs.” In an article in fROOTS magazine (August 2008) Colin Irwin wrote “Chris Foster merits legend status, one of the very best in the second wave of the Brit folk revival, as important as Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan and Nic Jones in the way he modernised and invested traditional songs with inventive guitar arrangements and potent vocal delivery.” His new CD ‘OUTSIDERS’ was one of the runners up in the 2008 fROOTS magazine best CD poll of 300 critics and broadcasters.
He has toured widely in Europe, North America and once in China, as well as throughout the U.K. and Iceland.
Since 2001 he has also been one half of the duo FUNI with his partner, singer Bára Grímsdóttir, performing a stunning mix of Icelandic and English music using guitar, kantele, langspil and Icelandic fidla. Check out