All events: Doors open at 7:15pm and music begins at 7:30pm.
Open stages: £5 on the door
Guest nights: Advance booking recommended, any remaining tickets available on the door for £10/£12.
Open stages: £5 on the door
Guest nights: Advance booking recommended, any remaining tickets available on the door for £10/£12.
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
2nd Feb 2025 - Open Stage
9th Feb 2025 - Open Stage
9th Feb 2025 - Open Stage
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
23rd Feb 2025 - Open Stage
2nd Mar 2025 - Open Stage
9th Mar 2025 - Open Stage
2nd Mar 2025 - Open Stage
9th Mar 2025 - Open Stage
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
23rd Mar 2025 - Open Stage
30th Mar 2025 - Open Stage
“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
23rd Mar 2025 - Open Stage
30th Mar 2025 - Open Stage
6th Apr 2025 - Open Stage
13th Apr 2025 - Open Stage
13th Apr 2025 - Open Stage
20th Apr 2025 - Tony Hall
A true folk music legend and master of the melodeon returns to Cambridge. Best known for his significant contributions to the Nic Jones classic "Penguin Eggs", Tony has also shared stages and studios with Shirley Collins, June Tabor, Maddy Prior and Peter Bellamy.
A unique talent, busting with invention and musicality; Tony's playing continues to inspire and entertain. His live shows are an eclectic mix of tunes and songs from across the world, interspersed with his inimitable sense of humour!
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
A true folk music legend and master of the melodeon returns to Cambridge. Best known for his significant contributions to the Nic Jones classic "Penguin Eggs", Tony has also shared stages and studios with Shirley Collins, June Tabor, Maddy Prior and Peter Bellamy.
A unique talent, busting with invention and musicality; Tony's playing continues to inspire and entertain. His live shows are an eclectic mix of tunes and songs from across the world, interspersed with his inimitable sense of humour!
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
27th Apr 2025 - Open Stage
18th May 2025 - Jack Rutter
Yorkshire folk singer Jack Rutter has established himself as one of the standout voices of the folk, roots and acoustic music scene in recent years.
A hugely engaging stage presence, his soaring vocal, powerhouse guitar and bouzouki playing and masterful arrangements of traditional songs and contemporary covers have enthralled audiences from the largest festival main stages to the most intimate folk clubs.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Yorkshire folk singer Jack Rutter has established himself as one of the standout voices of the folk, roots and acoustic music scene in recent years.
A hugely engaging stage presence, his soaring vocal, powerhouse guitar and bouzouki playing and masterful arrangements of traditional songs and contemporary covers have enthralled audiences from the largest festival main stages to the most intimate folk clubs.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
22nd Jun 2025 - Lizzy Hardingham
Folk infused singer songwriter Lizzy Hardingham sings songs that drive straight to the heart, giving audiences a chance for genuine connection and empathy. Hardingham is paving her way as a powerhouse performer with beautifully delivered songs, her wonderful voice grabbing the listener from the very first note and holding on until the last. Think Christine Collister, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny and KT Tunstall all wrapped into one.
“It's a voice that demands to be heard as words alone can't do it justice." Fatea Magazine
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Folk infused singer songwriter Lizzy Hardingham sings songs that drive straight to the heart, giving audiences a chance for genuine connection and empathy. Hardingham is paving her way as a powerhouse performer with beautifully delivered songs, her wonderful voice grabbing the listener from the very first note and holding on until the last. Think Christine Collister, Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny and KT Tunstall all wrapped into one.
“It's a voice that demands to be heard as words alone can't do it justice." Fatea Magazine
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
21st Sep 2025 - Tarren
Tarren is made up of Bristol-based artists Sid Goldsmith (Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Awake Arise), Alex Garden (The Drystones, Harriet Riley & Alex Garden) and Danny Pedler (Pedler // Russell). They combine cittern and concertina, fiddle, and accordion to create their music, which they call New-Folk.
“Simply an excellent Folk trio” “Thrilling” – **** Songlines
“Just the kind of band we need on the Folk circuit today. Brilliant!” - Folk Radio UK
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Tarren is made up of Bristol-based artists Sid Goldsmith (Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, Awake Arise), Alex Garden (The Drystones, Harriet Riley & Alex Garden) and Danny Pedler (Pedler // Russell). They combine cittern and concertina, fiddle, and accordion to create their music, which they call New-Folk.
“Simply an excellent Folk trio” “Thrilling” – **** Songlines
“Just the kind of band we need on the Folk circuit today. Brilliant!” - Folk Radio UK
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
2nd Nov 2025 - Telihard Frost & Jock Tyldesley
Teilhard Frost is a multi-instrumentalist and banjo maker from Canada, specialising in traditional fiddle tunes, with a particular interest in the Appalachian Mountains. He has spent the last 20 years touring with critically acclaimed band Sheesham, Lotus and ‘Son, and is currently touring his most recent solo album, Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deer Skin.
Jock Tyldesley is perhaps best known for his fiddling in Cajun bands such as The Flatville Aces and the Bearcats, as well as more off-the-wall antics with The New Rope String Band and The Chipolatas.
He also nurtures a long-time passion for Southern Appalachian old time fiddling for many years and has spent more time concentrating on this, whilst touring worldwide with his regular bands and US acts such as Eddie LeJeune, The Dirk Powell Band, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, Martha Scanlan, Beverly Smith and Carl Jones and Balfa Toujours.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Teilhard Frost is a multi-instrumentalist and banjo maker from Canada, specialising in traditional fiddle tunes, with a particular interest in the Appalachian Mountains. He has spent the last 20 years touring with critically acclaimed band Sheesham, Lotus and ‘Son, and is currently touring his most recent solo album, Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deer Skin.
Jock Tyldesley is perhaps best known for his fiddling in Cajun bands such as The Flatville Aces and the Bearcats, as well as more off-the-wall antics with The New Rope String Band and The Chipolatas.
He also nurtures a long-time passion for Southern Appalachian old time fiddling for many years and has spent more time concentrating on this, whilst touring worldwide with his regular bands and US acts such as Eddie LeJeune, The Dirk Powell Band, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, Martha Scanlan, Beverly Smith and Carl Jones and Balfa Toujours.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
14th Dec 2025 - Ian A Anderson
Ian A. Anderson - no, not that one! - began his solo musical career in the mid 1960s, heavily influenced by old country blues players, before taking a left-swerve in the early '70s into what nowadays gets called 'psych folk', with a trio of songwriter/ guitarist albums for Bristol's pioneering and now highly collectable independent label Village Thing.
He eventually settled into a personal - and notably English - style, drawing from traditional folk, blues, old-time and world roots musics, making some dozen albums by the end of the 1980s with groups Hot Vultures (with Maggie Holland), the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Ian A. Anderson - no, not that one! - began his solo musical career in the mid 1960s, heavily influenced by old country blues players, before taking a left-swerve in the early '70s into what nowadays gets called 'psych folk', with a trio of songwriter/ guitarist albums for Bristol's pioneering and now highly collectable independent label Village Thing.
He eventually settled into a personal - and notably English - style, drawing from traditional folk, blues, old-time and world roots musics, making some dozen albums by the end of the 1980s with groups Hot Vultures (with Maggie Holland), the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
1st Feb 2026 - Hedera
Hedera is a (mostly) instrumental project from Bristol featuring Lulu Austin (violin), Maisie Brett (violin, viola), Tamsin Elliott (accordion, harp), Beth Roberts (double bass, violin) and Isis Wolf-Light (clarinets). They perform original and traditional pieces inspired by music from England, Scotland, France, Bali, Georgia, Bulgaria, Ethiopia and beyond, translated through a prism of experimental minimalism and contemporary classical influences.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
Hedera is a (mostly) instrumental project from Bristol featuring Lulu Austin (violin), Maisie Brett (violin, viola), Tamsin Elliott (accordion, harp), Beth Roberts (double bass, violin) and Isis Wolf-Light (clarinets). They perform original and traditional pieces inspired by music from England, Scotland, France, Bali, Georgia, Bulgaria, Ethiopia and beyond, translated through a prism of experimental minimalism and contemporary classical influences.
Tickets: £8/£10/£12 in advance
