Folkal Point

The band was formed in 1971 in Bristol area and was active throughout the early 1970s, being rooted in the genres of folk and folk rock, with a particular focus on English folk music. The band was a quartet composed of the following members (all teenagers at the time): Cherie Musialik (lead vocals), Stuart Amesbury (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), Mark Steed (lead guitar), and Paul Cook (lead and rhythm guitar).[7]

The eponymous debut studio album of the band was released in 1972 through Midas Recordings and included covers after Bob Dylan, Joan Baez (i.e. Sweet Sir Galahad), Joni Mitchell, and Tom Paxton, being a stylistic mixture between traditional English folk music and contemporary American and Canadian folk music. While their namesake studio album was not a commercial success, having sold only 500 copies (of which half were reportedly lost in a flood), the record is a notable example of contemporary English folk music and has survived to this day.[8][9] The sound engineer overseeing the recording sessions for the band's debut studio album was Alan Green.[10] Despite the relatively small number of units/copies of the album which were pressed for its initial release in 1972, in the passage of time, namely after four decades, the debut studio album of the band became one of the most sought after British folk albums of all times.[10] Throughout the early 1970s, the band performed regularly for BBC Radio Bristol.[11]

One of the traditional English folk songs which the band covered on their debut LP was the ballad Lovely Joan. Another traditional English folk song was the ballad Scarborough Fair. In 2015, the band's debut studio album was remastered and can be listened to on Spotify.[12]

Band members of Folkal Point worked with renowned British folk guitarist Bert Jansch (formerly of Pentangle) and John Renbourn during the early 2000s, in the context of acoustic music promotions at the Alma Tavern Theatre in Clifton, Bristol.

The band reunited in June 2019 for the Clifton International Festival of Music which was held in the namesake small suburb of Bristol.

Band members of Folkal Point also collaborated in the past with ex-Led Zeppelin member and multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones in a series of concerts in Bristol. In addition, lead guitarist Mark Steed was the manager of a music shop in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, south-western England, as of 1998, according to a BBC Radio Bristol interview from that year.[13]

The band's music can be listened to or purchased on such digital platforms as Bandcamp, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and others, mainly revolving around their self-titled debut studio album released in 1972 and remastered or reissued in various years afterwards.