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Three Acres And A Cow

Three Acres And A Cow At Jubilee Hall, Chagford

Jubilee Hall Crabbe St, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom

‘Three Acres And A Cow’ is a history of land rights and protest in folk song and story. The show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues like the housing crisis, reparations, climate breakdown and food sovereignty via the Enclosures, English Civil War, Irish Land League and Industrial Revolution, drawing a compelling narrative through the radical people’s history of England in folk song, stories and poems.

£9 – £12
COME ALL YE: THE LIFE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE

Come All Ye: The Life Of The Common People At Lewes Folk Club

Lewes Saturday Folk Club White Hill, Lewes, United Kingdom

Bring songs, tunes and readings to suit the theme. This is a good night to try singing or playing to listeners for the first time. Instrument & vocal groups are welcome. Derek Seed is in the chair. Everyone is welcome, especially if you'd like to sing or play. We mostly sing and play traditional music from the British Isles, but we enjoy other styles as well. We always start off with some English dance tunes for anyone with an instrument to […]

£5
Three Acres And A Cow

Three Acres And A Cow At Coleford Baptist Church

Coleford Baptist Church 27 Newland St, Coleford, United Kingdom

‘Three Acres And A Cow’ is a history of land rights and protest in folk song and story. The show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues like the housing crisis, reparations, climate breakdown and food sovereignty via the Enclosures, English Civil War, Irish Land League and Industrial Revolution, drawing a compelling narrative through the radical people’s history of England in folk song, stories and poems.

£5 – £8

The Finn Collinson Band At Colchester Arts Centre

Colchester Arts Centre Church St, Colchester, United Kingdom

Contemporary folk group Contemporary folk group The Finn Collinson Band return to the stage in May 2023 for a short run of performances across southern and eastern England. Hot on the heels of Finn’s critically-acclaimed album The Threshold, released in 2022, the band’s innovative approach to interpreting traditional and contemporary folk music is set to captivate their audiences when they take to the road. Based in East Anglia, Finn has been touring with his band since the release of his […]

£11 – £12

Freedom To Roam At Cecil Sharp House

Cecil Sharp House 2 Regent's Park Rd, Camden, London, United Kingdom

‘The Rhythms of Migration’: a beautifully crafted journey in new music, film and visual art.

£10 – £25

Freedom To Roam At Cecil Sharp House, London

Cecil Sharp House 2 Regent's Park Rd, Camden, London, United Kingdom

Eliza Marshall’s Freedom To Roam brings a beautifully crafted journey in new music, film and visual art back on tour this Spring. The award winning album – The Rhythms Of Migration – from acclaimed composers Catrin Finch, Jackie Shave, Donal Rogers and Eliza Marshall, featuring Kuljit Bhamra MBE and Robert Irvine, is played in its entirety, accompanied by stunning visual artwork from Amelia Kosminksy. The music is preceded by our short film Connected, from multi-award winning director Nicholas Jones.

£10 – £25
Jim Moray discusses Tam Lin on the Old Songs Podcast

Jim Moray At Chapel Arts Centre

Chapel Arts Centre St James Memorial Hall Avon, Bath, United Kingdom

Should you care to look back over the past two decades of British folk music, one musician in particular stands out for having a singular, idiosyncratic vision that has rarely wavered in style and substance. Jim Moray may have garnered initial attention for his digitally-driven approach to traditional music, but reflecting on his seven albums and numerous production credits it’s clear that imagination and invention are the real cornerstones of his work. The cinematic vision of albums such as Skulk […]

£15

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson At Cecil Sharp House, London

Cecil Sharp House 2 Regent's Park Rd, Camden, London, United Kingdom

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from Norwich. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.

£10 – £14
Jim Moray sits on the floor of a well-decorated studio.

Jim Moray At Chapel Arts Centre, Bath

Chapel Arts St James Memorial Hall Avon, Bath, United Kingdom

Should you care to look back over the past two decades of British folk music, one musician in particular stands out for having a singular, idiosyncratic vision that has rarely wavered in style and substance. Jim Moray may have garnered initial attention for his digitally-driven approach to traditional music, but reflecting on his seven albums and numerous production credits it’s clear that imagination and invention are the real cornerstones of his work. The cinematic vision of albums such as Skulk […]

£15

The Finn Collinson Band At Forest Arts Centre, New Milton

Forest Arts Centre Old Milton Rd, New Milton, United Kingdom

Contemporary folk group The Finn Collinson Band return to the stage in May 2023 for a short run of performances across southern and eastern England. Hot on the heels of Finn’s critically-acclaimed album The Threshold, released in 2022, the band’s innovative approach to interpreting traditional and contemporary folk music is set to captivate their audiences when they take to the road. Based in East Anglia, Finn has been touring with his band since the release of his debut album Call […]

Outlandish Nights

Outlandish Nights: Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davies At Boiling Wells Amphitheatre

Boiling Wells Amphitheatre Boiling Wells Ln, Bristol, United Kingdom

Ríoghnach Connolly grew up surrounded by a rich musical familial heritage and through Armagh Pipers’ Club in Armagh City, in the northeast of Ireland. Now based in Manchester, she is a professional vocalist, flautist, lyricist, workshop facilitator and musical activist. She has toured internationally and extensively, performing and recording in bands The Breath (Real World Records), HoneyFeet (Stardust Works) Band of Burns (Órd Bán) and Afro Celt Sound System (ECC). Ríoghnach has a worldwide publishing deal with Real World Records […]

£17

Tin Giants at Royston Live, Hertfordshire

Royston Live Mill Rd, Royston, United Kingdom

Tin Giants take a refreshing “in with the old, in with the new” approach to interpreting, writing, arranging and performing traditional, contemporary and original music inspired by European acoustic and folk traditions. The band shares decades of skilled musicianship and award-winning song-writing, playing a dazzling array of instruments. The line-up brings together former members of folk rock band Shave the Monkey, which was an established name on the European folk scene for 20 years. They have since been making music […]

£9

The Finn Collinson Band At Blaxhall Village Hall

Blaxhall Village Hall Church Rd, Blaxhall, United Kingdom

The Finn Collinson Band seamlessly blend old and new music, creating a refreshingly innovative take on contemporary folk. Their dynamic live show is meticulously crafted yet endearingly spontaneous, respectfully traditional yet strikingly modern, and reassuringly familiar yet spellbindingly imaginative. Finn is widely regarded as a ground-breaking recorder player on the English folk scene, as well as a distinguished guitarist, vocalist, tunesmith and educator. Shortlisted for the BBC Young Folk Award in 2018, he has toured extensively with various ensembles, making […]

£15.40

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