Sean Cooney is an award winning songwriter and folk singer. 

He is a winner of three BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards with his band The Young’uns (Best Group 2016, 2015 & Best Album 2018) .

He has performed at hundreds of theatres and festivals in the UK, Europe, Australia, USA & Canada since 2007.

His songwriting commissions have included the BBC Radio Ballads (The Ballad of the Great War 2014, 2017) Rising Up! Peterloo 2019 and The Transports (5* The Guardian, 2017)

His songs have been recorded by artists including the Ivor Novello award winning Martin Green and the Mercury nominated The Unthanks.

He is the author of The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff (5*The Stage, directed by Lorne Campbell) “an extraordinary portrait of a working class hero” (5* The Observer).

He has written and presented documentaries for BBC Radio 4.

His TV appearances have included BBC 2 Springwatch Unsprung and BBC Inside Out

He has worked extensively in education – writing and sharing songs and stories with children from more than one hundred schools across the UK since 2007.

He has a First-Class Honours degree in History from Durham University (2006)

He was born in Stockton On Tees in the North East of England and is now based in Sheffield in South Yorkshire.