Edward W. Feery is a singer, songwriter and storyteller from Liverpool. He draws on his love of folk music, musical theatre and the twelve-string guitar to create ‘campfire musicals’, telling stories in his songs and weaving narratives through his sets, bringing to life places and people who might not always find themselves in the spotlight.

“You are a boss songwriter!” - Angeline Morrison

A precocious musician from a young age, he spent his childhood singing in a cathedral choir, his teenage years playing trombone in big bands and his time at university strumming and hollering his way through a succession of indie projects as a rhythm guitarist. Finding himself on the fringes of Liverpool’s febrile Wolstenholme Square scene, he soaked up as much of the city’s thriving underground scene as possible, taking every opportunity that came his way to play music. Around the same time, his friends from musical theatre group What We Did Next cajoled him into auditioning for a show; he caught the musicals bug, going on to appear in productions of Elegies For Angels, Punks & Raging Queens, Bat-Boy, Carousel, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change across the city in highly acclaimed productions.

He has collaborated with numerous artists across Liverpool and England’s North-West, including art-rock trio Stealing Sheep, indie-soul legends the Ragamuffins and acclaimed folk duo Harbottle & Jonas, and shared stages with the likes of folk powerhouse Mikey Kenney, musical polymath Felix Hagan of musical theatre collective Spit Lip, and Olivier- and Tony-winning actor Jak Malone. He was even the house musician for Tony Slattery’s Crimes Against Improv show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018.

That jaunt to the Fringe, the fulfilment of a long-held dream to perform there, proved a crucial point in his career. The whirl of conflicting emotions, and the inspiration of his first quality guitar, combined to break through a years-long bout of writer’s block, inspiring a host of songs about the place and time that became the basis of his first campfire musical, A Fringe Affair, all about his love of the Edinburgh Fringe. He returned to the Fringe to perform it for the first time in 2019, and continues to perform it to this day – although he is keen to remind audiences that “this show is still a work in progress!”

He is currently working on the follow-up to A Fringe Affair, expanding his repertoire to include traditional songs, committing himself to the twelve-string guitar, and gathering a veritable constellation of the nation’s brightest folk stars together in his occasional backing band, the Alt City Night Lights. Ever keen to collaborate, he is also part of the folk arts collective Common Folk and protest duo the Mersey Strummers. His debut album, collecting the songs from A Fringe Affair, is due out in 2027.

He remains Edward to his mother, but most people call him Ed.