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
 * 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
 * The Moon Shines Bright featuring Sandra Manning Jones
 * Rolling Down to Rio
 * Cold Blow and the Rainy Night featuring Liam Rickard
 * She Moves Through the Fair featuring Matt Sage
 * False Knight on the Road featuring Greg Hooper
 * 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
 * The Cuckoo
 * 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
 * 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

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".