# Oli Steadman

Oliver "Oli" Steadman is a British-South African multi-instrumentalist.

## Stornoway

Steadman is a founding member of Stornoway and through them is a volunteer with many nature conservation trusts including HIWWT, RSPB, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Woodland Trust, and British Trust for Ornithology.

## 365 Days Of Folk

In 2024 Steadman started 365 Days Of Folk, a spin-off of Jon Boden's A Folk Song A Day, featuring daily recordings of traditional music, mostly with guest vocalists. The songs thus far have included:
* 500 Miles featuring DG Solaris (aka Laish)
* Willie o Winsbury featuring DG Solaris
* Andrew Lammie featuring Amanda MacLean
* Apple Wassail featuring Katy Ryder
* Captain Ward and the Rainbow
* Sweet Afton
* Old Brown's Daughter
* Peggy Gordon featuring George Washbourn
* The Snows They Melt the Soonest featuring Matt Sage
* Lowlands of Holland featuring Catherine Earnshaw
* The Last Leviathan
* Some Tyrant Has Stolen My True Love Away
* I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
* My Son John
* January Man
* Daddy Fox
* Old Brown's Daughter
* Peggy Bann
* Pilgrim on the Pennine Way
* Otago
* In the Month of January
* Off to Epsom Races
* Ruins by the Shore
* Days Gone By
* Smugglers Song
* Maria's Gone
* John Ball
* I Drew My Ship
* How Can I Keep My Maidenhead featuring Daisy Chute
* Ballina Whalers
* Banks of the Nile
* Anachie Gordon
* Dark as a Dungeon
* Sheffield Apprentice
* Won't You Go My Way
* Clyde Water
* Lough Erne Shore
* When First I Came to Caledonia
* King Henry Was King James' Son
* Young Simon John
* Cupid's Garden
* Donkey Riding
* The Green Fields of America
* Springfield Mountain
* Billy Don't You Weep for Me
* Dalesman's Litany
* Take This Hammer
* Farewell Sweet Lovely Nancy
* Plains of Mexico
* The Glendy Burk
* Lord Bateman
* The Green Fields of America
* A Blacksmith Courted Me
* Frost Fair (by The Shackleton Trio)
* Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low
* Brave Wolfe
* Lough Erne Shore
* Death and the Lady
* Jolly Bold Robber
* The Humours of Whiskey
* King Arthur's Servant
* Fathom the Bowl
* The antarctic fleet
* Shallow brown
* Coleraine town
* That Lucky Old Sun
* Plains of Kildare
* Dust to Dust
* Impi
* Weavers Daughter
* Corduroy
* Sweet Mossom
* The Bold Fisherman
* Wife of the Soldier
* Swansea Barracks
* Worcester City
* Willie's Lady
* The Four Angels
* Lakes of Pontchartrain
* The Derby Ram
* Oor Hamlet
* Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
* Fiddler's Green
* Sir Patrick Spens
* The Maid and the Palmer
* Cap o Las Fawr
* A Pilgrim's Way
* Grey Funnel Line
* The Shoals of Herring
* Bird in the Bush
* Over the Hills and Far Away
* I Sowed the Seeds of Love
* Geordie
* Rosebud In June
* A Blacksmith Courted Me
* The Unquiet Grave
* The Glendy Burk
* The Days Of ’49
* Rattlin Roarin Willie
* To be a pilgrim
* The Wife of the Soldier
* Snow Falls
* Hughie Graham
* Adam and Eve (Roud 1387)
* Michael row the boat ashore
* Anderson’s Coast
* Groundhog
* Maryborough Miner
* The Moon Shines Bright featuring Sandra Manning Jones
* Rolling Down to Rio
* Apprenticed in London
* The Rakish Young Fellow
* The Yellow Handkerchief
* Trust in the Rolling Ocean
* I Am the Fox
* The Pressgang
* Jack Hall
* The River Don't Run
* Not Even the Ground / Two Ladies
* Cold Blow and the Rainy Night featuring Liam Rickard
* Sovay
* The Cuckoo
* Earsdon Sword Dance Song
* Sing Ivy
* She Moves Through the Fair featuring Matt Sage
* The Painful Plough
* The North Sea Holes
* Our Captain Calls
* Rufford Park
* Jock Stewart
* The Man in the Moon
* Sir Richard's Song
* As I Roved Out / The Deluded Lover
* False Knight on the Road featuring Greg Hooper

## Other projects

Steadman has worked as a studio producer for artists including Nick Cope, and as composer / musical director at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, also serving as manager to many artists,including Willie J Healey, The People Versus, and Balloon Ascents / NEVERLND.
In 2013 Steadman founded Count Drachma, who were invited to play at festivals from WOMAD to WOOD to Festival N°6, co-headlining London's Southbank Centre with the Mahotella Queens, and filming a documentary with The Guardian's Education channel.
In 2014 Steadman founded music-tech startup Tigmus, with Stornoway's touring trumpet player Thomas E Hodgson.
Since 2015 Steadman has been endorsed by Aria Bass Guitars, touring with 2x basses Detroit 313-DR & Detroit 313-BB, and recording with FEB-F2/FL or a Mexican Fender Jazz Bass. All are strung with roundwound strings except the Fender, on which Steadman has played with exclusively flatwound strings since 2009.
In 2024 Steadman established "Traildance".
In 2025 Steadman began interviewing Stornoway's collaborators for a series titled Conservation Conversations, broadcasting Live via the band's Instagram account; guests thus far have included:
* Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
* Ben Savage
* Amelia Coburn
* Lily Lyon's
* Sarah Smout
* Detta Kenzie
* Remorae
* Culverake
* Caoilfhionn Rose
* Ally McErlaine
* Georgia Gage
* Brown Wimpenny