August 2021
English Folk Expo Presents: Holy Moly & The Crackers
Available to watch in venue or watch from home. For tickets to watch in the venue click here. For tickets to watch from home click here. Holy Moly & The Crackers are the innovative and fiery folk-rockers from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, who bombastically mash together unique flavours of folk, blues, indie and Balkan beats. However you want to describe them, one thing is sure - Holy Moly & The Crackers put on a raucous and feel-good party, where everyone is invited, and…
Find out more »English Folk Expo Presents: Leveret
Available to watch in venue of watch from home. For tickets to watch in the venue click here. For tickets to watch from home click here. Leveret features three of England’s finest musicians – Andy Cutting (button accordion), Sam Sweeney (fiddle) and Rob Harbron (concertina) – playing together in a unique trio. Their playing combines thrilling musicianship and communication with a genuine warmth and connection with audiences. Leveret’s music is not arranged and instead they rely on mutual trust and…
Find out more »English Folk Expo Presents: Katie Doherty & The Navigators
Available to watch in venue or watch from home. For tickets to watch in the venue click here. For tickets to watch from home click here. Katie Doherty is an Award winning songwriter and with fiddler Shona Mooney (Former Sctottish Young Trad Musician of the Year, founder member of The Shee) and the smiliest man in Folk, Dave Gray on Melodeon, Katie Doherty and The Navigators were formed. And Then, was released in early 2019 to high critical acclaim, airplay…
Find out more »September 2021
Tunng
Tunng's new Dead Club project is a journey through life, death and grief. From Death Cafes to death cleaning, deep grief and the joy and wonder of living - the album, podcast series and zine explore the great taboos of end of life from angles both familiar and unexpected. The project was two years in the making and features an album, 8 part podcast series produced by the band featuring long-form interviews with experts, writers and thinkers in the field…
Find out more »October 2021
Grace Petrie
Grace Petrie’s unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over an army of loyal fans across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes. She’s toured arenas with Frank Turner, supported comedians Robin Ince, Josie Long and Hannah Gadsby, and has performed a prestigious live session on the BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Show. In 2019 she played to a packed The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival. Her last…
Find out more »Thea Gilmore
Thea Gilmore takes to the road in 2021 for her first EVER tour performing completely solo. Postponed by 12 months due to the global pandemic, her tour now takes place in September and October 2021. Following her 4th successive chart album, 2019’s “Small World Turning” (‘the most soulful, confrontational music of her career’ said The Mirror) and a rapturously received performance at the recent BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Thea will perform material from all stages of her career. Accompanying herself…
Find out more »John Bramwell & The Full Harmonic Convergence plus support
by arrangement with EDGE STREET LIVE JOHN BRAMWELL And The Full Harmonic Convergence plus support Doors: 7pm Curfew 11pm No under 8s. Under 14s to be accompanied at all times by an adult over 18. (Photographic ID may be required to gain entry). John Bramwell, is one of the UK's most unique, and talented singer-song writers who has been performing as a musician for over 30 years. His new album, Leave alone the empty spaces is a stunning showcase of…
Find out more »Manchester Folk Festival 2021 Pass
The limited-edition festival pass allows you entry* into ALL** Manchester Folk Festival shows from Thursday 21st – Saturday 23rd Oct 2021. This means you can curate your own festival experience – see an opening act in Gorilla then hot foot it to HOME for the rest of the evening. Make your choices on the night or plan your ultimate Manchester Folk Festival experience across 4 venues within walking distance of our festival hub venue HOME. The first wave of artists…
Find out more »Spiers & Boden plus support @ Manchester Folk Festival
Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, the multi award-winning duo of John Spiers and Jon Boden rocketed onto the scene in 2001. In 2011, after 10 years of successful touring, they headlined their own star-studded show at London's Shepherd’s Bush Empire celebrating their 10th anniversary. Using their early success as a duo, they founded the ground-breaking folk big band Bellowhead, which dominated their time for the next few years and in 2014 Spiers…
Find out more »Lady Nade @ Manchester Folk Festival
Hot on the heels of her UK Americana Award nomination, showcasing at Folk Alliance International and International Live Music Conference Singer-songwriter Lady Nade is soaring into summer with her third album release ‘Willing’. Continuing to champion the positive connection between music, well-being and the importance of equality and diversity within the arts. Despite the global pandemic 2020 was full of high-notes; performing at many online festivals in the UK and USA including Thriving Roots, Folk On Foot and Folk Alliance…
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