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Pete Morton
Feb
10

Pete Morton

Pete Morton is a singer and entertainer with a wealth of self penned songs that "express everything from the highly personal to the truly international".

Often referred to as an old time troubadour,  he delivers an unruly mix of  humanism, politics, love, social commentary and humour all wrapping its way around the folk tradition.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Open Night
Feb
24

Open Night

Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.

Always a great, fun evening full of variety.

£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers

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The Kimberleys
Mar
3

The Kimberleys

The Kimberleys are Isobel and Jim Kimberley, a London-based duo whose music brings the rich traditions of British folk into vibrant, contemporary focus.

£10 members, £12 non-members

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Open Night
Mar
17

Open Night

Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.

Always a great, fun evening full of variety.

£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers

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Rachael McShane and the Cartographers
Mar
24

Rachael McShane and the Cartographers

Rachael McShane is a renowned folk singer, cellist, fiddle and viola player from the North East of England. She gained fame as an original member of the award-winning folk big band Bellowhead, touring with them extensively and making a number of television appearances. The band recorded five studio albums and, together, they won a staggering total of 8 BBC Folk Awards. Parting ways in 2016, the band returned in 2022 for a series of ecstatically-received performances that reminded audiences of their unique alchemy, energy and talent.  

£12 members, £14 non-members

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Churchfitters
Mar
31

Churchfitters

The Churchfitters is a folk band like no other. The three virtuoso musicians from England and France strut their stuff on a stage that bristles with instruments.

£12 members, £14 non-members

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Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Apr
7

Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts

Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award-winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound. Nominated three times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) met while studying at Leeds College of Music and released their debut album in 2008..

£10 members, £12 non-members

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Richard Grainger & Chris Parkinson
Apr
14

Richard Grainger & Chris Parkinson

Richard Grainger & Chris Parkinson have been performing together as a duo for a few years now.

These Northern folk legends are a force to be reckoned with and, since their reunion, have been delighting audiences at Folk Clubs and Festivals around the UK, Europe and New Zealand.

£10 members, £12 non-members

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Open Night
Apr
21

Open Night

Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.

Always a great, fun evening full of variety.

£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers

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Hunter Muskett
Apr
28

Hunter Muskett

Chris George, Terry Hiscock and Doug Morter formed Hunter Muskett in 1968 whilst still at college. The band was lucky in having access to the clubs and colleges of London, including The Marquee and The Troubadour where they were finally spotted.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos
May
19

Linde Nijland & Bert Ridderbos

Linde was described "best folk singer of the Netherlands" (Heaven). For many years she has been performing and recording with multi-instrumentalist Bert Ridderbos ('seemingly a one man orchestra' fRoots) on guitars, cittern, accordion, banjo and dobro.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly
May
26

Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly

Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly are a groundbreaking new collaboration who seek to capture the excitement that lies within traditional song. The trio aims to breathe new life into old stories from across the British Isles, injecting the energy they feel these narratives deserve.

£12 members, £14 non-members

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Open Night
Jun
2

Open Night

Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.

Always a great, fun evening full of variety.

£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers

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John Kirkpatrick
Jun
9

John Kirkpatrick

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. – 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.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner
Jul
14

Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner

Individually, and in combination with a variety of well-known singers and bands, Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner have both served long apprenticeships on the shop-floor of folk music.  

Their style is a unique blend of stunning song and harmony, and a humour which takes their audience on a roller-coaster ride - "everything from high tragedy to ingenious smut in glorious vocal harmony!"

£7 members, £9 non-members

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Jez Lowe
Oct
27

Jez Lowe

The return of Hoy favourite Jez Lowe

Over the past four decades, Jez Lowe has been one of the UK’s busiest singer-songwriters, playing for audiences the world over, either solo, or with his long-time band The Bad Pennies.

Along the way he has gathered a long list of awards and nominations, including from the BBC Folk Awards and the Sony Radio Awards. His pace and enthusiasm for writing, performing and touring shows no sign of waning.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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The Famous Potatoes
Jan
27

The Famous Potatoes

An earthy mix made up of folk, celtic, cajun, hillbilly, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, skiffle… and anything that brings that ‘old time, good time’.

£7 members, £9 non-members

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Open Night
Jan
20

Open Night

Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.

Always a great, fun evening full of variety.

£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers

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Winter Wonderband
Dec
16

Winter Wonderband

Winter Wonderband features four of the most talented musicians on the UK folk scene - Saul Rose,Beth Porter, Jennifer Crook, & Maclaine Colston

£10 members, £12 non-members

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Bird in the Belly
Dec
2

Bird in the Belly

A return to the Hoy for Bird in the Belly, a Brighton-based Folk group. They collect little known and forgotten lyrics, poems and stories from around the UK, and set them to their own “hypnotically original compositions” (fRoots)..

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Elizabeth & Jameson
Oct
28

Elizabeth & Jameson

Hannah Elizabeth and Griff Jameson have joined forces to create an acoustic folk-roots sound which encompasses both their individual musical backgrounds.  Hannah’s influences are firmly planted in traditional folk-roots, whilst in contrast Griff has formed his musical reputation within folk pop/rock genres.  Together, Elizabeth & Jameson arguably offer the best of both backgrounds; this is simplistic, classic song writing at its best - a stripped back harmony-driven sound with acoustic guitar, violin and exquisite vocals.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Winter Wilson
Oct
14

Winter Wilson

When Mike Harding dubbed Winter Wilson as one of the hardest working duos on the circuit, he'd clearly done his homewor​k. UK based, Kip Winter and Dave Wilson have performed in Germany, Australia, Spain, Canada, Belgium and New Zealand.

£7 members, £9 non-members

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Culverake
Oct
7

Culverake

Culverake is a new traditional singing trio promising gusto and harmonies a plenty. The trio is made up of Seb Stone, Matt Quinn and Lizzy Hardingham, and together they breathe new life into timeless melodies.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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Broomdasher
Sept
16

Broomdasher

London-based acapella group who first came together in 2016 having spent many years performing both solo and in other groups.

They share a love of traditional songs from across the British Isles entertaining with their arrangements of both the much-loved and less well known songs and encouraging audiences to join in.

£7 members, £9 non-members

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Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer
Sept
2

Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer

“With two grand voices – individually and in harmony” (Folker-German Folk Magazine), the Anglo-German duo Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer offer a versatile miscellany of self-penned and imaginatively arranged songs, delivered with guitar, woodwind instrumentation and occasional percussion.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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We Mavericks
Aug
26

We Mavericks

Masters in the art of connection, this troubadour duo interweave effortless strings, soulful vocals and driving rhythms to form a singular, intense musical voice. The couple have been called contemporary folk, alt-country and acoustic pop, but words don’t capture their unbelievable musical kinship, or the deeply heartfelt way they relate to their audiences.

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Max De Bernardi & Veronica Sbergia
Aug
19

Max De Bernardi & Veronica Sbergia

"Good time blues is alive and well and residing in... Milan, Italy. A band with a mission" - Folk & Roots Magazine

Veronica Sbergia & Max De Bernardi passionately play country blues and ragtime, hokum, jug band and rural music from the 20's and 30's.

Expect an evening of joyous music and dazzling musicanship!

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Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
Jul
8

Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer

Vicki Swan & Jonny effortlessly blend traditional material with contemporary sounds. Their performances showcase new interpretations of old songs alongside original self penned tunes and new contemporary songs that are entirely at home in the tradition.

Be entranced by the haunting nyckelharpa, amazed at the cow horn (one of the worlds earliest communication devices) and meet some of the bagpipes that didn’t come from Scotland.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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