Emma Hartley

Meet Fraser Neill, the Scots folk musician behind Eurovision’s Emmelie de Forest

<em>Emma Hartley</em> on the making of a star

issue 25 May 2013
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To be a folk music fan in Britain today is to be jangling the keys to a cultural palace. For a variety of reasons, we seem to have produced the most brilliant young musicians in decades — but the rest of the world has always seemed rather more excited about the fact than we are.

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