Barry Coope is an English folk singer. He was a member of folk band Muckram Wakes in the 1980s and of the vocal folk trio Coope Boyes & Simpson from 1990 until the trio disbanded in 2017. In the early 1980s, Coope was a member of innovative English folk band Muckram Wakes. Later he played with the folk 'supergroup' Blue Murder. Around 1990, Coope helped form Coope Boyes & Simpson, a British vocal folk trio. The group comprised singers Barry Coope