Martin Graebe is an independent researcher, writer, and singer, who has studied and written about various aspects of traditional song. His book As I Walked Out; Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall (Signal Books, 2017) has received both the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and the W. G. Hoskins Prize.
More recently he has turned his attention to the work of the Wiltshire song collector Alfred Williams, and his book, The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames (2021), was a runner-up in the 2022 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. He has given talks on traditional folk song to audiences around the world.
He and his wife, Shan, perform traditional songs together in harmony.