Following the success of their tour in 2017 we welcome back this fabulous group DAPHNE’S FLIGHT Are Christine Collister, Chris While, Julie Matthews, Helen Watson and Melanie Harrold www.daphnesflight.com                                        www.facebook.com/daphnesflight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8V8CMXrho0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE0EgKub5x0   “This is solid gold standard dream-team music-making. A key album of this year already, and no mistake” froots   Back with a […]

  We are delighted to welcome Chris and Julie back for their fabulous duo show. Just in case you haven’t heard their stunning music before here’s the biography ‘Winners in the Best Duo category at the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and nine times nominated since 2001 in the Best Duo, Best Song & Best Live […]

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Duo – 2016 & 2013 With their landmark 5th album, ‘Personae’, husband and wife duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman introduce us to a host of new characters and stories from their fertile and energetic musical imaginations. Drawing upon the British folk tradition’s natural backdrops whilst weaving in […]

As a trio, Gigspanner, formed by Steeleye Span’s erstwhile fiddle player Peter Knight, has built a massive reputation for dismantling traditional music and song and reassembling it into “music of intelligently crafted brilliance” (Songlines). BBC Folk Award winners (Best Duo) Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin are described by The Guardian as being “Subtle, bravely original…a […]

This rescheduled show will take place at Kennet Valley Hall in Lockeridge on Sunday 15th April at 8pm. All original tickets are valid. Please contact Andrew on 01672 152465 or andrew.bumphrey@btconnect.com. if you have tickets that you cannot use for a refund.     After four years playing in packed village halls up and down […]

We are thrilled to welcome Martin back with his outstanding world class music. Nominated for Musician of the Year and for Best Album with ‘Vagrant Stanzas’ BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 There is no doubt that after 35 years as a professional musician Martin is, right now, better than ever. Widely acknowledged as one […]

The traditional start to the Christmas festivities featuring Chris While Julie Matthews, Chris Leslie and David Hughes is always uplifting and fun – not to be missed.     St Agnes Fountain are about to embark on their 16th consecutive sell-out Christmas tour. Since their first get together, to record the eponymous St Agnes Fountain album […]

Brilliant musicians, thrilling performers, free-thinking visionaries and all-round good chaps as well…small wonder Lau are regarded as the epicentre of the new folk boom. And they’ve got shelves groaning with awards (BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARD WINNERS, BEST BAND, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2015 THE HERALD), a forest’s worth of ecstatic […]

Edgelarks fly in on the tailwind of BBC award winning duo Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin. The new band name comes with a new project, that takes the roots of their previous work, from the traditional musics of the British Isles to Indian classical slide guitar to the stomping roots party of Phil’s beatbox harmonica; […]

Christine Collister (Gregson & Collister, The Richard Thompson Band) Melanie Harrold (Harrold & Blanchflower, The Hank Wangford Band, Joanna Carline) Julie Matthews (While & Matthews, St Agnes Fountain) Helen Watson (Burden of Paradise, The Love Notes) Chris While(While & Matthews, St Agnes Fountain, Chris & Kellie While)   Twenty one years after their debut self […]