All events: Doors open at 7:15pm and music begins at 7:30pm.
Open stages: £5 on the door (cash)
Guest nights: Advance booking recommended, any remaining tickets available on the door for £10/£12.
Open stages: £5 on the door (cash)
Guest nights: Advance booking recommended, any remaining tickets available on the door for £10/£12.
1st Sep 2024 - Open Stage - Following our Summer break, we'll be restarting open stages at the beginning of September - come down to sing, play or listen... More information here.
8th Sep 2024 - Open Stage
8th Sep 2024 - Open Stage
15th Sep 2024 - John Kirkpatrick
BBC Folk Musician Of The Year winner John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. Displaying a rare skill on a variety of push-pull squeezeboxes - the melodeon, the button accordion, and the Anglo concertina - he has been fully professional since 1970, not only with vast amounts of solo appearances, but also in all kinds of duos, trios, and bands – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, and Brass Monkey.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
BBC Folk Musician Of The Year winner John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. Displaying a rare skill on a variety of push-pull squeezeboxes - the melodeon, the button accordion, and the Anglo concertina - he has been fully professional since 1970, not only with vast amounts of solo appearances, but also in all kinds of duos, trios, and bands – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, and Brass Monkey.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
22nd Sep 2024 - Open Stage
29th Sep 2024 - Open Stage
6th Oct 2024 Open Stage
29th Sep 2024 - Open Stage
6th Oct 2024 Open Stage
13th Oct 2024 - Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdon
Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom present their new show Where Is My Boy Tonight, exploring East Coast fishing communities through traditional music, folk songs, and field recordings.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
20th Oct 2024 - Open Stage
27th Oct 2024 - Open Stage
Mossy Christian & Megan Wisdom present their new show Where Is My Boy Tonight, exploring East Coast fishing communities through traditional music, folk songs, and field recordings.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
20th Oct 2024 - Open Stage
27th Oct 2024 - Open Stage
3rd Nov 2024 - Emily Portman & Rob Harbron
Emily Portman & Rob Harbron both have award-winning reputations as performers, composers and recording artists. Now they have formed an inspired new collaboration in which they delve into English folk traditions, creating a boldly exposed and intricately woven contemporary folk sound.
Emily (voice, banjo & piano) is best known as an original songwriter and for her work with acclaimed folk band The Furrow Collective. Rob (concertina, guitar, voice) tours with Leveret, Fay Hield, Jon Boden and many more, being in great demand as one the finest multi-instrumentalists in the UK.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Emily Portman & Rob Harbron both have award-winning reputations as performers, composers and recording artists. Now they have formed an inspired new collaboration in which they delve into English folk traditions, creating a boldly exposed and intricately woven contemporary folk sound.
Emily (voice, banjo & piano) is best known as an original songwriter and for her work with acclaimed folk band The Furrow Collective. Rob (concertina, guitar, voice) tours with Leveret, Fay Hield, Jon Boden and many more, being in great demand as one the finest multi-instrumentalists in the UK.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
10th Nov 2024 - Open Stage
17th Nov 2024 - Open Stage
24th Nov 2024 - Open Stage
17th Nov 2024 - Open Stage
24th Nov 2024 - Open Stage
1st Dec 2024 - Adam Holmes
Adam’s 4 albums, Heirs and Graces, Brighter Still, Midnight Milk and Dreamweaver have cast an impressive shadow across the UK Folk Scene and gained him Scottish Album of the Year Nominations (in 2014, 2017 and 2018) and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nominations. His songs have featured widely on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3, BBC Scotland, Edith Bowman’s BBC Scotland Quay Sessions show and Virgin Radio, amongst many others.
Adam crafts lyrics that resonate like old folk songs, set to melodies rooted in the haunting slow airs and church hymns that echoed throughout his childhood.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Adam’s 4 albums, Heirs and Graces, Brighter Still, Midnight Milk and Dreamweaver have cast an impressive shadow across the UK Folk Scene and gained him Scottish Album of the Year Nominations (in 2014, 2017 and 2018) and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nominations. His songs have featured widely on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3, BBC Scotland, Edith Bowman’s BBC Scotland Quay Sessions show and Virgin Radio, amongst many others.
Adam crafts lyrics that resonate like old folk songs, set to melodies rooted in the haunting slow airs and church hymns that echoed throughout his childhood.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
8th Dec 2024 - Open Stage
15th Dec 2024 - Open Stage
22nd Dec 2024 - Open Stage
15th Dec 2024 - Open Stage
22nd Dec 2024 - Open Stage
26th Jan 2025 - Showman & Coole
Super-Deluxe Fiddle, Banjo, and Song!
Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. The songs of John Hartford, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and The Band share space with the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. The duo’s original songs and tunes take in all these vistas and paint something both personal and timely.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Super-Deluxe Fiddle, Banjo, and Song!
Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. The songs of John Hartford, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and The Band share space with the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. The duo’s original songs and tunes take in all these vistas and paint something both personal and timely.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
16th Feb 2025 - Bailey & Keely
Bailey and Keely met on the English session scene and instantly clicked over their love of pushing tunes beyond their limits. Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee and New Roots finalist Saul Bailey has performed solo supporting the likes of Leveret and John Kirkpatrick, played as part of the indie-folk band Glymjack, and worked as an accompanist. Royal Academy of Music alumnus Mitch Keely is a composer and multi-instrumentalist and has worked with talent from a diverse scope of genres and traditions both in the UK and abroad as a backer, composer, audio engineer, and producer.
Together, they form a new and unique musical force. They draw upon a joint history of Morris dance and traditional music, hauling it into the modern age with a sensitive irreverence.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Bailey and Keely met on the English session scene and instantly clicked over their love of pushing tunes beyond their limits. Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee and New Roots finalist Saul Bailey has performed solo supporting the likes of Leveret and John Kirkpatrick, played as part of the indie-folk band Glymjack, and worked as an accompanist. Royal Academy of Music alumnus Mitch Keely is a composer and multi-instrumentalist and has worked with talent from a diverse scope of genres and traditions both in the UK and abroad as a backer, composer, audio engineer, and producer.
Together, they form a new and unique musical force. They draw upon a joint history of Morris dance and traditional music, hauling it into the modern age with a sensitive irreverence.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
16th Mar 2025 - Sam Carter
“Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection” — Songlines
‘A singer who can hold the audience spellbound all by himself’ R2
‘Really wonderful’ Jools Holland
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
“Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection” — Songlines
‘A singer who can hold the audience spellbound all by himself’ R2
‘Really wonderful’ Jools Holland
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
