Dom Prag

Dom Prag is a UK folk singer-writer from Southampton. After gigging around Brighton in his formative years in such venues as The White Rabbit, The Fiddler's Elbow, The Brunswick and Marwood Cafe, (where he launched his EP Talitha and Other Songs in 2015), he has performed at folk clubs all over the UK, gathering a following. He has appeared at festivals including Birmingham BE festival (2013), Nozstock (2014), Folk East (as part of The Knights Project), the Edinburgh Fringe, Wickham, Wimborne, Purbeck, Wessex, Bridport, South Downs and New Forest Folk Festivals. During lockdown in summer

2020 Dom moved onto a narrowboat, which he christened, ‘The Bonny Moorhen’, after one of his favourite folk songs.

Dom's music knits together British and European folk tradition, classical guitar: mining songs, unaccompanied singing, poems set to music (e.g. Keats, Larkin), compositions influenced by Schubert and Shostakovich, bluesy riffs and raw vocals. 

His own songs start as poems and then undergo a transition into songs as the music is composed. In 2017 he worked on the Arts Council funded, Ferry Tales project, on the Isle of Wight, where he collaborated with poet Robyn Bolam and musician JC Grimshaw, setting poems to music. The work was showcased in spring and summer 2017 and he unveiled his debut album, Young Man on a Ferry, in December 2018. During 2020 he began recording the second album, Needle & Thread. Lockdowns and covid messed up the smooth flow of that, but working in collaboration with Phil Beer, Joely Koos, Odette Michell, Tom Evans, Rowan Piggott, Rosie Hodgeson and Rich Prag, the album was eventually released to great critical acclaim garnering a slew of excellent reviews, and a tour followed. During a long stretch of lockdown where he was moored in Banbury, he got involved in a local social history project led by Banbury Canal CIC director, Kate Saffin: ‘Memories of Bygone Banbury’. The project recorded interviews and stories told by residents of Banbury, about the canals, the industries, and the people. These stories are now being made into podcasts, with Dom’s music weaving in and out of the dialogue. Listen to the podcasts on Soundcloud.