John Hinton is a folk musician from East Anglia, UK. He has had a love for folk music since first going to Shrewsbury Folk Festival in 2015. John first learnt piano but has now widened his repertoire to guitar, fiddle, octave mandola, whistle and more. He was in the National Youth Folk Ensemble from 2019-21.
He has a passion for creating videos and has a YouTube channel where he shares his music through video. In 2020 he started a project with the aim to make a video of every tune in the Tuneworks collection as a resource to go along with the tune-book. As of August 2021, every tune has a corresponding video on YouTube. Find out more.
John is currently residing in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, studying Folk and Traditional Music at the university.