Young Folk Award winners Moore Moss Rutter play Shoreham

It is the latest step for Tom Moore, Archie Churchill-Moss and Jack Rutter who launched themselves in the grand style when they won the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award while still at school.

Now seven years on, having toured with some of the biggest and best acts in contemporary folk music, they are celebrating their third CD.

“We are very pleased with it,” says Archie. “From listening to the first and the second and now the third, you can hear the difference in our playing. We have been playing together for more than a decade, and you can hear the tightness in our playing. The first album was in 2011, the second in 2015 and the third is 2018, and it is always interesting to hear your own development.

“We grew up playing together from the age of 12 or 13. Me and Tom met at the Cambridge Folk Festival when we were both 11-year-olds. We both won a competition to take part in a series of workshops, and we met there and formed a little duo. We have got a little video of us as 11-year-olds! It is really nice to have, and it will be good to look back on it as we get older. Our voices were incredibly high!”

They later met Jack at another festival. Archie and Tom were 14, Jack was 15; when Archie and Tom were 17 and Jack 18 they won the BBC award.

“It was amazing. Until then music had just been something that we learnt privately, that our parents had taken us to. It was more social. But then we realised that we could make something out of it. It was our first step into realising that some people have this as their job, and we got some really cool gigs coming from that. With the success, I think you have just got to think about the reason why you are doing it.