Sam Lee, folkesanger, promotør og animatør, platedebuterte i 2012 med albumet “Ground of its own”, nominert til  BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - "Best album", Mercury- nominasjon og fRoots Magazines Album of the year. Han har en naturbegavelse av en stemme, som til sitt første møte med folkemusikk for syv år siden var ukjent med det å synge.
Javid Afsari Rad er en iransk musiker som spiller persisk musikk. Han spiller en rekke instrumenter, men har det gamle strengeinstrumentet santur som hovedinstrument. Javid er en pioneer innen world music, og har blandt annet mottatt KORKs pris i 2007 som komponist og musiker. Han er kanskje mest kjent som orkesterleder for for det norsk- persiske kammerorkesteret Rumi Ensemble.
Susanne Lundeng fra Bodø er en av våre mest særpregede felespillere. Hennes spill er rotfestet i den nordlandske folkemusikken. I tillegg til å være soloutøver har Susanne i stor grad samarbeidet med andre musikere fra andre sjangrer, og har gjerne brukt kvartettformatet i sine band; musikerne har fått rom til å sette sitt tydelige preg på uttrykket, hvor arrangementene er bygd opp rundt Susannes klang, tonalitet og rytmikk. Mye av hennes musikk er også blitt arrangert for symfoniorkester og kammerorkester, hvor hun er solist.  Trommeslager Hans Hulbækmo  har sin bakgrunn fra det kreative miljøet på Jazzlinjen ved Konservatoriet i Trondheim. Hans har tidligere gjort seg bemerket som medlem i de kritikerroste rockebandene Your Headlights Are On og The Avalanche/Snøskred samt Moskus. I 2011 vant Moskus Grappas debutantpris som første jazzband noensinne.

Folk Conexion is a brand new initiative from Riksscenen, aiming both to promote British folk music in Norway and to initiate and encourage collaboration between the two countries. 
Fiona Talkington, well-renowned producer and curator from amongst others the BBC, has assembled a collective of Norwegian and British musicians, who will part-take in the project. Each collaborative session will take place at Riksscenen over the course of 3 days, before culminating in a concert. 
Our first Conexion-session will convene with an exciting mix of musicians and composers, all innovative and vastly experienced within their field. Amongst them are Sam Lee, Susanne Lundeng and Javid Afsari Rad. 

Sam Lee is a British folk singer, promoter and animateur who over the course of 7 years has gone from being a fairly inexperienced singer, to releasing his 2012 debut album ’Ground of its own’. The critically acclaimed album was nominated to several awards, amongst others BBC Radio 2’s Folk Award’s “Best Album”, a Mercury Prize nomination and won fRoots Magazine’s “Album of the Year”. The album consist of songs collected through years of travel and exploration into forgotten songs of the British Isles. Sam and his band apply contemporary ideas to traditional songs, both in terms of arrangement and instrumentation.
Javid Afsari Rad is an Iranian musician and composer, who plays and composes Persian music. He plays a range of instruments, his main instrument being the ancient stringed santur. Javid is a pioneer within the world music genre in Norway and has been honored for his commissioned work with the Norwegian Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra(KORK) in 2007, a piece of work which he also performed in. He is most known as orchestra-leader of the Norwegian-Persian chamber orchestra Rumi Ensemble.The National Broadcasting Orchestra award jury stated: ”meeting with this composer and musician was one of last years greatest experiences for the Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. His music, and his communicative skills, took the Orchestra on a journey that few other symphony orchestras have the good fortune to embark on. By means of dancing rhythms, the use of unusual musical scales and harmonies, the orchestra was brought to Iran, among Persian ornaments and Sufi poetry singing praises to Love”
 Susanne Lundeng from Bodø, Norway, is one of the country´s most characteristic fiddle-players. Her music and playing is deeply rooted in the folk-music of Northern Norway. As well as being a solo-artist, she has collaborated widely with a vast range of musicians from several different genres and disciplines. She often favors the quartet-format during collaborations, giving he co-collaborators freedom to influence the expression. The arrangements are often built around Susanne´s tone, rhythm and dynamic. Several pieces of her´s has also been arranged for symphony-´and chamber-orchestras, with her as a solo performer.
 Hans Hulbækmo has his musical backround from the creative environment at the Jazz-conservatoire in Trondheim, Norway. He has in the past made a name for himself as a member of the critically acclaimed rock-bands Your Headlights Are on and The Avalanche/Snøskred, as well as the jazz- group Moskus. In 2011, Moskus won Grappa's Debutant Award, a unique achievent for a jazzband.