Winners of the 2024 National Folk Festival’s Gill Rees Memorial Award for Young Musicians, Apolline is a lively group of young folkies endeavouring to bring joy and a little silliness to the world. Equipped with alluring voices, innumerable instruments, and an extensive collection of colourful socks, the group views folk music through fresh eyes. Their debut EP Home Home, released in December 2023, encapsulates the very best of Apolline’s ever-growing sound. It honours the traditions of folk music while also recognising the contemporary influence of Apolline’s Antipodean perspective, that helps their own connection to folk traditions grow alongside their genre-bending sound.