Gigs – Tour News – Special Events

This 1st December will herald the release of a brand new Beans On Toast album: Wild Goose Chasers. An illuminating insight into what lies ahead, the release is preceded by the elegant, enigmatic first single: ‘Myths & Legends’, which is streaming everywhere now. While its idiosyncratic title may be typical ...

Information Camouflage, the latest release from 3 Daft Monkeys, is a rich, life-affirming tapestry that masterfully blends world folk inspirations with wild punk-infused energy and modern storytelling This is not just an album but an experience—a kaleidoscopic journey through sound and emotion that celebrates life, love, and the resilient human ...

The award winning and highly acclaimed Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Québec’s progressive francophone folk movement.  The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music with a broad range of global influences. Since its inception in August ...

Bella Gaffney plays an Autumn 2024 Tour beginning from this week and then from late October until the end of November in between appearances with her band The Magpies. Bella Gaffney is a British singer-songwriter, guitar and banjo player who has established herself as a prominent figure in the folk ...

Legendary British singer-songwriter Ralph McTell will embark on his most extensive tour of Ireland to date in 2025. Spanning 20 shows over four weeks, the tour will kick off on 24th April in Wexford, wrapping up on 18th May in Sligo. As a stalwart of the folk scene for over ...

Mairearad Green and Rachel Newton are both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians. They are also cousins, their mothers hailing from Achnahaird, Coigach in the Northwest Highlands, where Mairearad was also brought up. Despite having played music together both informally and professionally over the years as part of various groups ...

OCTOBER 3rd SOUTH SHIELDS - Customs House - website 4th DURHAM - Gala Theatre - website 5th WHITLEY BAY- Playhouse Theatre - website 6th KIRKBY STEPHEN - Sports and Social Club - 017683 72123 11th ALNWICK - The Playhouse - website 12th HEPWORTH LIVE nr Holmfirth - website 13th HARTLEPOOL ...

Contemporary folk artist and singer-songwriter Lewis Barfoot returns to the UK for an 11 date solo tour opening at the illustrious Green Note in London on 7th November. Accompanying herself on nylon string guitar and shruti box she creates a beautifully intim-ate live experience and will share songs from her ...

The Rheingans Sisters release their highly anticipated new album Start Close In on September 27th. Sonically arresting, drenched in drones, and pulsing with age-old patterns of communal dancing, Start Close In continues the current rejuvenation of traditional folk music with a record steeped in minimalism, collectivism, beauty and noise. Produced ...

The Sharon Shannon Big Band are set to deliver a captivating tribute to the late Shane MacGowan this Winter. This homage holds profound significance, as Shane previously toured with the Big Band, leaving an indelible mark on their musical journey. Shane was a fiesta in himself, a spirit especially evident ...

Following the hand of fate which guided them from a remote village in the Austrian Alps to a tiny island in Greece, long time musical collaborators and world wanderers, Irish traditional singer and musician Nuala Kennedy and Dubliner / New Yorker singer songwriter Eamon O' Leary have created an atmospheric ...

Parlour Ballads is the new album from Jon Boden, a piano led record full of sentimental ballads that tie together parlour music and folk song. Parlour Ballads seeks to awaken the sound of the old, well loved, slightly out of tune domestic piano and to reunite it with (or introduce ...

Stick In The Wheel’s fourth studio album, A Thousand Pokes is a satirical celebration of mistakes. A joyous lambasting of everyone and everything that’s wrong in the world, against the real-time backdrop of global uncertainty, corruption and political unrest. A London Charivari. Rough Music. A gleeful old-fashioned cancelling. A Chaunter’s delight ...

It’s hard to believe that fast-rising East Anglian duo Honey And The Bear (aka Lucy and Jon Hart) are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. To mark the milestone, they will be heading out on the road this September/October, showcasing their spellbinding songwriting and versatile musicianship in no less than ...

A unique voice within the fabric of music in the UK WORD PAINTINGS THE KEITH JAMES SONGBOOK A long awaited Concert tour Mature, insightful and intriguing - sensitive and honest Spanning the past 50 years, Keith has performed thousands of enthusiastically received shows in Arts Centres and Theatres throughout the ...

The award winning and highly acclaimed Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Québec’s progressive francophone folk movement.  The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music with a broad range of global influences. Since its inception in August ...

Recorded in Abbey Road Studio 2 on Earth Day 2024, Earth Day Blue is the 14th studio album release from Nick Harper, the wildly talented and much loved UK singer-songwriter. With John Leckie in the producer’s chair (Stone Roses, Radiohead, Muse etc.) and Tchad Blake mixing (Tom Waits, Crowded House, ...

Building a fanbase one gig at a time She’s been mentioned in a quiz question on BBC Radio 4’s Counterpoint, featured on the O2 Music Map, supported by the Arts Council, presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her guitar work, and earned critical raves for her albums (all seven ...

Sam Carter announced his fifth solo album, Silver Horizon, for release on Captain Records on Friday, 16th of August. Featuring eleven hook-driven indie folk songs in an absorbing sound world, Silver Horizon represents a marked shift in style from Carter’s previous work. Over his fifteen-year career, Midlands-born guitarist and songwriter ...

Outside Time comes two years after new folk trio Tarren’s critically acclaimed debut Revel, an album that established their unique sound and quickly gained them a loyal following from acoustic music lovers. Outside Time sees the band develop this sound, weaving personal themes into music that explores the meaning of ...

A concert of songs and spoken word In 2006, a new set of Radio Ballads were commissioned by BBC Radio 2 involving a whole team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene under the guiding hands and watchful eyes of producer John Leonard and musical director ...

Three unique female voices from three different cultures rise in sublime harmony, telling powerful stories that have moved people across borders, languages and times. Exquisite, yet far from purely decorative, this rich, multilingual record evokes images of flowers placed in rifle barrels; it tells stories of women who certainly aren't ...

Lon Dubh are a three part harmony trio singing hypnotic original songs inspired by landscapes of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales and its poetry and mythology. Expect carefully crafted songs that sound like they’ve always existed. Lon Dubh (rhymes with ‘love’) is Irish for blackbird, reflecting the roots of nature ...

Following a summer of electrifying shows later this year, including their annual headline performance at Beautiful Days Festival in August, revered British band the Levellers will return with their much-loved acoustic Collective in spring 2025. Having thrilled fans and critics with two highly acclaimed acoustic tours and albums in recent ...

Today, Oysterband extend their A Long Long Goodbye tour with the announcement of a further series of headline shows this November. While recognised as one of the UK’s foremost folk-rock bands and an unparalleled live proposition, the band confirm the decision they made recently to call time on their touring ...

Fair Freedom is Pete Morton’s first album since the highly acclaimed A Golden Thread back in 2020. All ten tracks are originals but feature two older re-worked songs. In typical Morton style, the material spans a wide array of current issues from a celebration of Great British rivers (‘The Rivers ...

We're out there ploughing our singular furrow, and people keep coming up at gigs to say how nice it is for them to experience such new and original music, with the introductions to set the scene for the songs. In today's music world, where a lot is about nostalgia, it's ...

Over the past two years, acclaimed Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has been in a transparently reflective mood with three albums all themed around the physical and metaphorical nature of glass. On The Glass Age, produced by Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren and inspired by keeping in contact with his young ...

Unlikely as it may seem, the same person who wrote ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ also wrote a study of werewolf myths and numerous bestselling ghost and horror stories that put on the same success footing as Dickens. Not to mention having a bibliography that includes some 1200 publications and being a ...

Reflecting on love, friendships and memories, singer-songwriter Annie Dressner bears her soul on her upcoming new album I Thought It Would Be Easier, out 5th April via Dharma Records. Since the release of her first full-length solo record in 2011, Annie Dressner has relocated from her home city of New York to Cambridge in ...

boci Genres: alt folk, prog folk, singer-songwriter, alt pop boci is an innovative violinist and songwriter creating astral alt-folk that centres around themes of grief, unity and the natural world. Her debut album 'we are each other, this will set us free', received support from Songlines (★★★★), BBC 6 music ...

A unique voice within the fabric of music in the UK Mature, insightful and intriguing - emotionally giving and honest Spanning the past 50 years, Keith has performed thousands of enthusiastically received shows in Arts Centres and Theatres throughout the UK. Thoughtful, interpretive concerts devoted to the writing of visionary ...

Charlie Dore cheerfully admits she still has the touring habit - in spades, as she continues her Spring Tour throughout March, taking in venues both North and South across England. The tour sees the celebrated hit-writer for Tina Turner, Celine Dion, George Harrison, Lisa Stansfield and Jimmy Nail perform songs ...

Seasick Steve is today announcing details of his forthcoming album A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees. Due for release on 7th June via SO Recordings, the album's lead single 'Backbone Slip' is out now. It's been almost 20 years since Seasick Steve's celebrated appearance on Jools Holland's Hootenanny launched ...

One of the UK’s foremost folk rock bands - Oysterband - are announcing that they are calling time on their live career and will be performing live with June Tabor for the last time. After forty-five years on the road, the legendary Canterbury-formed collective will be hanging up their touring ...

Yes. English Folk hero, Beans On Toast, will be taking his brand new live band out on tour for the first time this February and March. With a new-look outfit comprising Scottish guitar wizard/folk songsmith Memphis Gerald, honky-tonk royalty King Killership, percussive powerhouse Abbi Drums, and festival poet extraordinaire Bassie Gracie; ...

One of Ireland’s most beloved and respected musicians and songwriters, Davie Furey, is to embark on his first headline tour of Ireland in 5 years.  After a busy 2023, which included touring with the legendary Paul Brady, Davie is set to release a brand new album of 9 original compositions titled Glimpses Of ...

Internationally renowned Bristol-based sea shanty sensations The Longest Johns will release their brand new album Voyage on February 9th 2024. The album is available to pre-order now here. Their fifth studio album is a unique take on traditional folk and shanties which is their “most fantastic splendiferous journey yet”, according ...

2024 looks set to be a pretty turbulent year. There’s a general election coming, plus the ever-constant spectres of industrial disputes, climate change and continuing socio-economic disparity between the haves and have nots. It is perhaps an apt time then for the return of  the critically acclaimed political singer/songwriter Grace ...

It feels like mere weeks ago that Fairport's Cropredy Convention brought the cream of Folk, Roots, Rock (and Disco!) to the Oxfordshire countryside, topped off by an epic headline slot by the hosts themselves. For fans that missed out on the opportunity to witness the full live experience back in August, ...

Singer-songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Andy Sharrocks & The Incurable Romantics will perform a Valentine’s Day Headline London Show which will see him perform a Free Entry headline show with a full band and special guests on Wednesday 14th February 2024 (Valentine’s Day) at the legendary venue The 100 Club, Oxford ...

East Anglian contemporary folk musician Finn Collinson will be heading out on a nine-date English venue tour in February 2024. Together with his virtuosic band, Finn will introduce new material, along with favourites from critically-acclaimed studio albums The Threshold (2022) and Call To Mind (2019). Although fundamentally folk in approach, ...

The Haar are on tour February and April 2024: A splendid balance of swirling instrumental magic and beautifully sung narratives. Two albums in, and this exciting Anglo/Irish band is being compared to the sensational Lankum. Heading back out on the road with their unique take on traditional Irish songs in ...

What is it that the artist wants to say? Even the singer-songwriter who’s been trying to say the unsayable by singing it and hitching words to melodies for a lifetime? Maybe it takes a lifetime to find out. Or at least, for Martyn Joseph, a forty year journey of writing, ...

The Albion Christmas Band are widely regarded as the premier seasonal show, which has been touring for 23 years this year, and attracts sell-out audiences across the UK.  Indeed, many people say that their Christmas doesn’t start until they have seen The Albion Christmas Band. Featuring the combined talents of ...

The soundtrack from Robb Johnson’s festive entertainment MURDER AT THE GRANGE will be released December 1st, & available as an LP & digital download. Twelve original festive songs, characterised by Johnson’s characteristic songwriting excellence, ranging in tone from the sardonic to the sentimental, featuring traditional seasonal conventions (50s jazz, Father ...

Released to coincide with his first Celtic Christmas UK tour, Tim Edey’s new album presents listeners with seasonal music from a range of traditions, performed by some of the finest musicians from the world music scene. The track listing reflects suggestions made by friends and fans responding to posts on ...

Award winning band The Trials Of Cato tour UK airing new songs BBC radio 2 folk show album of the year winners The Trials Of Cato are touring the UK from October through to December and are airing new songs. Robin Jones and Tomos Williams were joined in 2020 by ...

Dear Friends, Exciting news!  Our music is to be used on the forthcoming second season of the BBC television series Beyond Paradise. We're dead chuffed with that, and with the four-star review we had in RnR Magazine this quarter. If for any reason (and we can't imagine why) you haven't ...

It’s great that Andy White has people to do this sort of thing for him these days. Hi everyone Ticket links for Andy's January tour of the UK and Ireland are below. If you're further afield then let me know - he has told me he's planning on getting back ...

British singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy is to release her much-anticipated second album The Pendulum Swing on February 16 2024 via Cooking Vinyl. This follows her highly acclaimed 2021 debut The Eternal Rocks Beneath, which announced Priddy as a singular new talent on the contemporary roots music scene. Pre-order: https://KPriddy.lnk.to/ThePendulumSwingPR Speaking about ...

Three decades on the road. 4500 gigs. 35 albums. 6 Royal Albert Hall sell-outs. 3 BBC Folk Awards. 2 Honorary Doctorates. Tours in 14 countries from America to Australia, Canada to India. What more can you say about Show of Hands? Over three decades the West Country alliance of Steve ...

Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden join forces to release their first duo album and launch their first UK duo tour. Glad Christmas Comes is a collection of some of their favourite traditional and modern festive songs. The album will be toured throughout the UK in November and December 2023. Glad ...

Featuring members of Gilmore & Roberts, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage and The Willows, it’s no surprise that A Winter Union’s Sooner After Solstice showcases a band bursting with individual brilliance. Crucially though, A Winter Union produce a sound so much greater than the sum of their parts; this is ...

Fast-rising East Anglian duo Honey & The Bear (aka Lucy and Jon Hart) are heading out on the road this November/December, showcasing their warm and spellbinding new album in seven counties. The Suffolk-based husband-and-wife will release third album Away Beyond the Fret on November 3, officially launching it in an ...

The Pleasures are an Americana band fronted by renowned Australian singer-songwriter Catherine Britt - mother, breast cancer survivor, multi-Golden Guitar winner, multi-ARIA nominee, fifteen-time Grand Old Opry performer and Melbourne's Lachlan Bryan - modern day troubadour, songwriter's songwriter, Golden Guitar winner and consummate story-teller. Their much anticipated debut album The ...

Max ZT and Dan Whitehouse bring a haunting blend of virtuosic hammered dulcimer and soulful spoken word to eight beautiful listening spaces on their UK tour this October. New Yorker Max ZT, aka the "Jimi Hendrix of the hammered dulcimer" and Black Country tunesmith Dan Whitehouse are taking their unmissable ...

The Mary Wallopers have released a new track from their forthcoming second album Irish Rock ’n’ Roll today. ‘The Idler’ is a timely folk song, one that carries a pertinent (and what should be universally given) message of acceptance in the face of daily injustices that have run down the ...

Following the success of their 2022 debut album A Year Too Late And A Month Too Soon which earned the pair five star reviews and global airplay, Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones present a brand new collection of winter songs and tunes sourced from their beloved native county of Yorkshire ...

Sheffield-based musician Rosie Hood presents The Rosie Hood Band and their new album A Seed Of Gold (released 3rd November 2023). For her first album since 2017’s critically acclaimed The Beautiful & The Actual, Rosie Hood (vocals, tenor guitar, baritone ukulele) is joined by fellow Sheffield-based musicians, Nicola Beazley (fiddle, ...