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January 2026
Friday 2nd January
First Friday Folk, Chapeltown
First Friday Folk at The Commercial, Chapeltown. Acoustic music club with floor spots and guest artist performing “5 a side” 5 songs in both halves. – this month- Chris Compton and Julia Disney
Friday 9th January
New Horizons at Beehive Folk Club
Beehive Folk club at Harthill Village Hall A few floor spots, followed by the guest artist. Tickets are usually £10., email to go on the ticket list and pay (cash) on the door, see club website for details. Bring your own drinks. Charity night for Weston Park
Midwinter Wassail Sing at The Blue Ball, Wharncliffe Side
A night of traditional winter songs, carols and Wassailing. 8.30PM
Saturday 10th January
Hekety Ceilidh at Crookes Social Club
Doors 7.30PM, With caller Ian Nichols. TICKETS
Tuesday 13th January
Rare Occasions at Kiveton Park Folk Club
Kiveton Park Folk Club, Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club, Doors 7.30PM. Floor spots (from 7.50PM) before the guest artist, £10 for non-members. The club website is not working. If you would like more details I can pass you email address on to the club organiser.
Wednesday 14th January
Gao Hong & Kadialy Kouyate at UOS Drama Studio Talking Gig
Doors 7PM Experience the rare yet captivating combination of two of world music’s most mesmerising instruments: the Chinese pipa, and the West African kora. Infused within these stringed instruments are the histories and traditions of their respective cultures – shared by the artists through skilfully conducted musical conversations. The unique Talking Gigs format promises a spellbinding evening of discovery, with these wonderful musicians exploring their cultural backgrounds and how they ended up collaborating. The enjoyment of the all-music second half will be enhanced by an informed appreciation of the music. TICKETS
Thursday 15th January
Henry Parker at Crookes Folk Club
Crookes Folk Club at The Princess Royal, Slinn Street, Crookes Doors 8.15, starts 8.30. Around 30 mins of floor spots before the guest artist in first and second half. Sign up if you want to perform. Entry by donation (cash only please). See Facebook for details
Saturday 17th January
Ashley Hutchings and Blair Dunlop House Concert at Live at Sam’s
Ashley’s son Blair Dunlop joins his father for this very special evening. A BBC Folk Award-winning singer-songwriter in his own right, the pair will reflect on a very special musical relationship in chat, music and song.
Ashley Hutchings ‘The Guvnor’ formed Fairport Convention in 1967, a group that went on to invent British folk-rock with the album Liege & Lief – an album that was voted the ‘Most Important Folk Album of All Time’ by BBC Radio 2 listeners in 2002, and at the 2006 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards it won the award for Most influential Folk Album of all time. Doors 7.30PM TICKETS
Kellys Heros at Coal Aston Village Hall
Irish Band at Coal Aston Live. Doors 7.15PM starts 8PM Tickets OTD (usual price is £15) Bring your own drinks. Details
Thursday 22nd January
Stiofán Ó Treabhair at Crookes Folk Club
Crookes Folk Club at The Princess Royal, Slinn Street, Crookes Doors 8.15, starts 8.30. Around 30 mins of floor spots before the guest artist in first and second half. Sign up if you want to perform. Entry by donation (cash only please). See Facebook for details
The Rheingans Sisters + Rakhi Singh and Simmy Singh at Shakespears.
a work-in-progress sharing of a new project of four musicians: The Rheingans Sisters & Rakhi Singh and Simmy Singh. Tickets are Pay-As-You-Feel as this is a work in progress sharing. Suggested donation £10 but feel free to pay less or more. Rowan and Anna Rheingans are BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning prog-folk duo from the Peak District. Fellow violinists and singers, composers and colloaborators Rakhi and Simmy are best known for their work in classical, contemporary and experimental music. They perform together as a duo or with the genre defying Manchester Collective. Doors 7.45PM TICKETS
Saturday 24th January
Concerteenies concert for 0-5s Martin Harwood and Cath James at the Greystones
10.30AM and 11.45AM. Join Martin Harwood and Cath James (fiddles/ guitar/ vocals) for a Burns Night special – foot-stomping jigs and reels, beautiful Scottish songs and a chance to join the kids in some ceilidh (Scottish) dancing. With dancing, listening as well as bubbles, percussion, props and informal introductions, this is a fun and informal gig for adults and their children aged 0-5 years and their siblings. TICKETS
Sunday 25th January
Mr Novembre at Cafe #9
Doors 7PM Mr. Novembre is the indie-folk project of Henry Colquhoun, replete with sweeping climactic songs of love, discovery, introspection and yearning. Based in Manchester, by way of growing up in the Middle-East and a French cultural heritage, Mr. Novembre has now started to form into a full 5 piece alt-folk blend of cathartic string melodies over lush fingerpicked rhythms.
Blending a folky bedrock of guitar and bouzouki/mandolin, and complemented by cello, viola, twinkling piano, and gorgeous harmonies, Mr. Novembre is contemporary folk bound to wash your woes away. TICKETS
Wednesday 28th January
Easterley at Nether Edge Folk Club
at Nether Edge Folk Club, Nether Edge Bowling Club. There are a few floor spots before the guest artist. Doors 7PM, starts 7.30PM TICKETS Emily Eastwood (of Steel Songbirds) has partnered with Piers Cawley (traditional folk singer and baker) to form the harmonic duo Easterley. This is an early opportunity to catch an up-and-coming folk act.
Thursday 29th January
Gordon Tyrrall at Crookes Folk Club
Crookes Folk Club at The Princess Royal, Slinn Street, Crookes Doors 8.15, starts 8.30. Around 30 mins of floor spots before the guest artist in first and second half. Sign up if you want to perform. Entry by donation (cash only please). See Facebook for details
February 2026
Monday 2nd February
Julie Murphy and Ceri Rhys Matthews House Concert House Concert at Live at Sam’s
Julie Murphy ( voice and shruti ) and her partner Ceri Rhys Matthews ( flute ) who met at art school in 1979 are founder members of groundbreaking Welsh folk group fernhill. Together they perform traditional songs from Wales, England and beyond, with particular emphasis on the music and poetry of West Wales. Their exquisite musical evocations of landscape and culture are timeless and universal and their musical rapport is breath for breath.
They have toured worldwide and their music has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and Late junction, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Alba, BBC Radio 2 and stations across Europe.
Julie has just released a limited edition double vinyl celebrating a 30 year musical journey which includes work with fernhill, other musical collaborations and her own songwriting.. Doors 7.30PM TICKETS
Friday 6th February
John Watterson (Fake Thackray) at Beehive Folk Club
Beehive Folk club at Harthill Village Hall A few floor spots, followed by the guest artist. Tickets are usually £10., email to go on the ticket list and pay (cash) on the door, see club website for details. Bring your own drinks. Jake Thackray was a singer-songwriter in the French tradition, a “chansonnier” whose songs are nevertheless convincingly and idiosyncratically English. John’s appreciation and love of Jake Thackray’s music is obvious to his audience. His performance is a celebration of the man that was Jake Thackray – his life, his work and his genius – a genius which the new age of music lovers are in danger of missing out on.
Saturday 7th February
Gaelforce at Crookes Social Club
Gaelforce – superb Celtic folk rock band with fiddle, bagpipes, electric guitar, bass & drums. Traditional songs & music given a folk rock treatment. Doors 7PM Tickets
Sunday 8th February
Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman + Brown Boots at Alder Bar
New Musical Traditions Club Doors 7.30PM TICKETS Dave and Anni joined forces in 1985, after spending many years around the folk club scene, in which time they featured on several albums made by other performers.
Although Dave and Anni perform substantially at home in the UK they also make at least one trip each year to the United States, where they have an established following and have also performed in Holland, Denmark and Finland.
Anni has developed a specialist repertoire of songs originating from her native North East, and Dave has been writing songs in traditional vein since 1982 many of these are widely sung and have become part of the general song repertoire of singers all over the world.
Brown Boots features Martin Clarke on fiddle and Will Allen on box. They are both highly accomplished and musicians individually and together, equally at home playing tunes with friends in the pub as performing on a festival main stage.
They came together for a gig at the Man of Kent in Rochester, having previously met at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Musically it immediately seemed to click, and an audience member commented on their choice of footwear, so the duo’s name was set.
Since then Will and Martin have made two duo albums together, performed at all the main UK folk festivals, played for countless ceilidhs and have collaborated to form a multi-award winning partnership playing for Tower Ravens rapper sword dancers.
Thursday 12th February
Holly Clarks and George Sansome House Concert House Concert at Live at Sam’s
After their initial collaboration as part of Queer Folk, Holly Clarke and George Sansome found their musical chemistry to be undeniable. Their shared passion for traditional songs and their remarkable stage presence quickly became apparent to those who had witnessed their first performance, that this was a duo in the making.
As they pick their way through some of their favourite traditional songs, Holly Clarke and George Sansome are continually exploring innovative ways to arrange the music between their instruments. Their goal is to create arrangements that not only showcase their individual talents but also highlight the unique synergy and connection they have when playing together. Doors 7.30PM TICKETS
Saturday 14th February
Powerhouse Ceilidh Band: The Anti-Valentines Ball at Crookes Social Club
This February 14th, instead of battling to reserve a table at an overpriced and overcrowded restaurant, why not head to Crookes Social Club and hurl your partner (or a total stranger, we won’t judge) around the dancefloor to Powerhouse’s extremely romantic high-octane folk rock/metal ceilidh music? TICKETS
EFDSS Broadside Day– Conference at University of Sheffield
Organised by the Traditional Song Forum with the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, the Broadside Day is a conference for people interested in street literature in all its fascinating aspects, held at the University of Sheffield. The Broadside Day is the annual one-day conference for people interested in Street Literature and Cheap Print in all its fascinating aspects – broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, woodcuts, engravings, last dying speeches, catchpennies, news (real and fake), almanacs, carol sheets, wonder tales, and all kinds of cheap printed ephemera sold or distributed to ordinary people in the streets and at fairs, from pedlars’ packs, and in back-street shops, up and down the country. TICKETS
Sunday 15th February
The English Fiddle Ensemble at Walkley Community Centre 2.30PM
The English Fiddle Ensemble is a distinguished folk group featuring Bryony Griffith, Jim Boyle, Ross Grant, and Rosie Butler-Hall. Each member is an accomplished fiddler, bringing their unique style and regional influences to the ensemble. Together, they celebrate the rich tapestry of English fiddle music, delivering performances that are both authentic and invigorating. TICKETS This concert was rearranged from October.
Bridge & Boden – Bed & Breakfast Album Launch at Shakespears
Will Bridge (fiddle and vocals) and Jackie Boden (melodeon) debut their new album “Bed & Breakfast” at Shakespeare’s in Sheffield. TICKETS
Tuesday 17th February
Alan Wood & James Haigh at Kiveton Park Folk Club
Kiveton Park Folk Club, Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club, Doors 7.30PM. Floor spots (from 7.50PM) before the guest artist, £10 for non-members. The club website is not working. If you would like more details I can pass you email address on to the club organiser.
Wednesday 18th February
Filkin’s Drift at Cafe #9
Filkin’s Drift reimagine traditional melodies through pizzicato grooves, intricate guitar tunes, and boundless improvisation. Their 870 mile foot-powered-tour, described as ‘committed and fascinating’ by BBC 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews, has recently propelled them into the spotlight. This radical approach to sustainable touring has earned the duo global attention from major news outlets including BBC News, Billboard, The i, Radio New Zealand, Canadian Broadcasting Company, and The Times. TICKETS
Thursday 19th February
Spiers and Boden at Firth Hall
Spiers & Boden have been at the forefront of the English traditional folk scene for 25 years both as aground breaking duo and as founder members of folk phenomenon Bellowhead. Colour chord harmony workshop before the gig. TICKETS
Friday 20th February
Sam Baxter and Merle Harbron at Bishop’s House
Doors 7PM Sam Baxter and Merle Harbron are an Anglo/Scottish duo creating dynamic, full-bodied arrangements of contemporary and traditional music. Using fiddle, drones and voice, the pair build vibrant musical landscapes, weaving together melodic lines inspired and improvised from traditional songs and dance music.
Two highly-skilled musicians, Sam Baxter and Merle Harbron create intimate
performances that in an instance can pivot from reflective and nuanced to driving and energetic. Together, they are a force of nature; captivating audiences with their infectious interplay and magnetic musical spirit.
The duo’s debut (and self-titled) recording, is the perfect showcase of what they do best: traditional tunes and songs performed with gumption, nuance, warmth, and ferocity (not all necessarily at the same time). Drones thrum, fiddles glide and screech, voices float above gentle plucking, and bows dig into strings – warping and distorting, walls of sound are built and dismantled. TICKETS
Sunday 22nd February
Martin Carthy with Eliza Carthy at The Greystones
National treasure Martin has influenced generations of artists including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. In recognition of his illustrious career Martin has been shortlisted for the 2025 Mercury Music Prize for his wonderful new solo record Transform Me Then Into A Fish.
This album also marks both his 84th birthday in May 2025 and offers a full circle moment in his music journey as he revisits material from his very first (eponymous) solo record released in 1965. TICKETS
Friday 27th February
Bella Hardy at The Greystones
Multi award winner Bella found her first home in folk music through a childhood love of ballad books. She began performing at Cambridge and Sidmouth festivals from the age of 13, her debut album Night Visiting established her reputation as a talented songwriter when her first composition, Three Black Feathers, won a BBC Folk Award nomination. Since then Bella has been beguiling audiences throughout the world with her mesmerising, highly acclaimed, crystalline voice and songs that call straight to the heart all delivered with unique, disarming honesty. Tickets
March 2026
Sunday 1st March
Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening at Firth Hall 7PM
Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness, to a Roman inscription with links to Libya and Syria magnetically pulled into the 21st century with glorious vocal harmonies and the wildest of piping. TICKETS
Thursday 5th March
Tim Edey at Cubley Hall Hotel, Penistone
Doors 7.30PM Award-winning multi instrumentalist who is one of the best musicians of his generation.
Tim is a double BBC Musician of the year (BBC FOLK AWARDS 2012) and BBC Scotland 2020. Tim was The Chieftains guitarist+accordionist of choice for 10 years touring globally and appearing with artistes like Ry Cooder + Paul Brady, Tim also has a long standing solo career. Rated by many to be one of the words best guitarists and melodeon players in the celtic folk scene and has recorded & toured with everyone from Christy Moore to Altan & Natalie MacMaster, Julie Fowlis + Lunasa. Ross is a 3 times nominated Musician of the year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013, 2016, 2018, he won best duo in the same awards with Ali Hutton in 2017. He won Composer of the Year in 2015 at the Scots Trad Music Awards. He performs with bands including Treacherous Orchestra, Salsa Celtica, Dougie Maclean and lots more. Ross has 5 solo albums to date Wide Open in 2013, Remembering in 2015, Sanctuary in 2017, Vana in 2020 and Live at the Gorbals in 2022 Support: Patrick Harvey & Dominic Kane are 2 of the finest Irish Musicians out there. TICKETS
Friday 6th March
Janice Burns & Jon Doran at Beehive Folk Club
Beehive Folk club at Harthill Village Hall A few floor spots, followed by the guest artist. Tickets are usually £10., email to go on the ticket list and pay (cash) on the door, see club website for details. Bring your own drinks.
Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music and songs that tell vivid stories about the nature of life and our place in the world.
Janice & Jon’s ‘clever and uncluttered musical storytelling’ [Songlines] comes alive through tight vocal harmonies and sensitive interplay between mandolin, bouzouki, and guitar. Their arrangements have a spellbinding presence and an understated energy that transports their songs from the pages of books and manuscripts into the imagination of the listener.
Saturday 7th March
Raise your Voice Harmony Festival at Crookes Social Club Sat 7th & Sun 8th
Welcome to the third festival of a cappella vocal harmony hosted by Melrose Quartet, who will be inviting some of their favourite singers The Wilsons, The Melsons (Melrose and Wilsons combined!), and special guests Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman and Janice Burns & Jon Doran to join them in Sheffield for a weekend of concerts, workshops and social singing gatherings. TICKETS
Sunday 8th March
Thomas McCarthy+ Sandra & Nancy Kerr at Alder Bar
New Musical Traditions Club Doors 7.30PM TICKETS Thomas McCarthy was born in the town of Birr, County Offaly, in the Irish midlands into a well respected Irish Traveller family. His grandfather was known as a “seanachie” which is an Irish term for someone with a profound orally derived knowledge of the history and families of Ireland. Thomas learnt his crafts of singing and storytelling from his mother, aunts and uncles.
Sandra Kerr has had a long and distinguished career in folk music since her days with Ewan MacColl’s Critics Group, has performed all over the world, and recorded numerous albums too. Well known as the co- writer, with John Faulkner, of the music for “Bagpuss”,
Sandra is joined by her daughter Nancy Kerr. Nancy is one of the most celebrated folk musicians of her generation, and has to date won 6 Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2:
Tuesday 10th March
Spoil the Dance– Feature spot at Kiveton Park Folk Club
Kiveton Park Folk Club, Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club, Doors 7.30PM. Floor spots (from 7.50PM) before the guest artist, £10 for non-members. The club website is not working. If you would like more details I can pass you email address on to the club organiser.
Thursday 12th March
Johnny Campbell + Chris Butterfield at Bishop’s House
Doors 7PM An evening with Yorkshire folk musician Johnny Campbell and Alfred Wainwright archivist Chris Butterfield – a journey across the landscape of the north! Yorkshire Folk musician Johnny Campbell and Alfred Wainwright archivist Chris Butterfield collaborate on a double headline show on most things Northern. Fresh from his Pennine Way Tour, walking the 268 mile route in 19 days with 17 shows, Johnny will regale tales of his recent tour and songs from his latest field recording album, True North. Chris delves deep with a talk exploring into the enigma that is Alfred Wainwright, author of the Lakeland Pictoral Guides. What Chris doesn’t know about the great man isn’t worth knowing, as Chris has devoted the last decade of his life to collecting, archiving the life’s work of Northern England’s finest exponents of outdoor writing. TICKETS
McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle at The Greystones
8PM A welcome return to Greystones for legendary folk heavyweights John McCormick, Mike McCusker and John Doyle, internationally renowned collectors and composers of Scottish and Irish music, who will be presenting their own blend of top class songs, tunes and charming bonhomie. Described as the masters of flute, fiddle, song and guitar, and with their vast repertoire, this will be an evening to remember, a rare musical treat you’ll savour for a very long time. Tickets
Friday 13th March
Peter’s Field – Sean Cooney, Rowan Rheingans & Sam Carter at Upper Chapel
Peters Field – an epic musical chronicle that tells the story of one of the most important days in working class history. 7.30PM TICKETS
Saturday 14th March
Daoirí Farrell at Firth Hall
7.30PM Dublin singer and bouzouki player Daoirí Farrell burst on to the international folk music scene with two prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2017 for Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Track, performing live at the awards ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. His breakthrough album, ‘True Born Irishman’, released the previous year, introduced him as a remarkable new voice in Irish traditional music. TICKETS
Tuesday 17th March
The Dubliners Encore – Official Stage Show at Sheffield City Hall
The Dubliners Encore is the official stage show celebrating the greatest folk band of all time. Produced by The Dubliners’ John Sheahan; renowned fiddle player and legendary Irish icon, this new show packs 50 years of songs, stories, and craic, into one unforgettable night. TICKETS
Saturday 21st March
Blackbeard’s Tea Party at The Greystones
8PM Be prepared to stamp your wooden legs: Blackbeard’s Tea Party are back with their latest album ‘We Are People’. Blackbeard’s Tea Party continue to put their signature twist on British folk music with a contemporary rock sound. On this new collection they explore the past and the present to ask what it means to be British right now – from personal, political and piratical perspectives. On the ‘We Are People’ tour they will perform these new tracks along with classics from their back catalogue. Sea-shanties are given a bombastic rock edge, and folk instrumentals become late-night floor-fillers when this raucous bunch of reprobates hit the stage. They have dirt under their fingernails and a twinkle in their eyes, and you can expect fantastic musicianship, playful choreography and an unstoppable urge to move your body. Electric guitars, fiddle, melodeon, drums and 4-part harmonies combine to create music that is drenched in tradition, but filtered through a kaleidoscope of modern rock and pop. Tickets
Sunday 22nd March
Emily Portman at The Greystones
Emily Portman and friends, album launch TICKETS
Sunday 29th March
Jon Wilks and The Grizzly Folk at The Greystones
8PM Multi talented Jon Wilks is a prominent singer, songwriter and highly acclaimed fingerpicking guitarist whose stand out talent has been applauded by such folk legends as Martin Carthy who described him as “bloody brilliant” and Martin Simpson who said Jon was “the real deal”.
Rooted in English folk traditions his work combines storytelling with traditional and original songs. Always with a keen eye and ear for a story, Jon’s live performances include absorbing tidbits about the songs, original singers and collectors, that he has unearthed during his extensive research on traditional music. He was the founder and editor of Tradfolk and has been featured regularly on BBC Radio 2’s Folk Show. This is a rare full band show. TICKETS
April 2026
Tuesday 7th April
George Sansome & Matt Quinn at Kiveton Park Folk Club
Kiveton Park Folk Club, Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club, Doors 7.30PM. Floor spots (from 7.50PM) before the guest artist, £10 for non-members. The club website is not working. If you would like more details I can pass you email address on to the club organiser.
Sunday 12th April
Jerry O’Reilly & Rosie Davis + Macdara Yeates at Alder Bar
New Musical Traditions Club Doors 7.30PM TICKETS Jerry O’Reilly is one of Dublin’s best known traditional singers. In 2003 he released his first solo C.D. called “Down From Your Pulpits, Down From Your Thrones”. His second album, “Havoc In Heaven” was launched in early 2012 and has been described by The Irish Times as “a strapping collection which will fuel repertoires from Stonybatter to Sneem”. Rosie Davis was born in Woolton near Liverpool, and has been singing and dancing from the age of three.
Macdara Yeates (‘Dara’ for short) is a traditional folk singer from Dublin, Ireland. Described by the Irish Music Magazine as “a deep and powerful performer”, Macdara is known for his booming baritone renditions of Irish folk songs, ranging from traditional ‘big’ songs, songs of Dublin dock workers, and lesser-known ballads from his native inner-city Dublin. Born and raised in the Irish capital, Macdara is one of a crop of singers associated with the recent resurgence of young singing talent in the city
Monday 13th April
Merry Hell at Cubley Hall Hotel, Penistone
Doors 7.30PM MERRY HELL just have to be one of the most vibrant and well supported acts on the folk n roots scene today. AND….They’ve been booked for the prestigious Fairport Convention Cropredy Festival! Need I say more?? Check ’em on social media and their website WWW.MERRYHELL.CO.UK TICKETS
Thursday 16th April
Sam Carter at Bishop’s House
Sam Carter’s spring tour celebrates the release of The Oakham Poacher (2025), his first solo collection of traditional songs; some captured on record for the very first time. The EP highlights Carter’s distinctive fingerstyle guitar and storytelling flair, arriving soon after his acclaimed album Silver Horizon (2024), a Top 40 Folk Chart success and one of KLOF Mag’s Albums of the Year. TICKETS
Friday 24th April
The Rosie Hood Band at Yellow Arch Studio
Doors 7PM, The Rosie Hood Band play a hometown show with their new line-up for 2026. A Horizon Folk Award nominee, Rosie Hood is known for her powerful, clear vocals and captivating performances combining poetic writing with honest interpretations of traditional English songs. In her ‘Classy’ (MOJO) 4-piece, Rosie is joined by fiddle-player Bridget Slater, melodeon-player & percussionist Robyn Wallace and fiddle-player Rosie Butler-Hall. The instrumentalists bring dynamic lift and drive, expanding Rosie’s vision to re-work traditional songs and bring unheard stories to life. ‘To me, the story is always the most important thing, that’s the ‘Seed Of Gold’ within a song’ explains Rosie. TICKETS
Saturday 25th April
Scott Doonican ONE MAN SHOW at The Lantern Theatre
Expect silliness, shenanigans, singalongs and stories a-plenty. TICKETS
Wednesday 29th April
Jethro Tull at City Hall
One of the world’s most successful and enduring Progressive Rock bands. The Jethro Tull brand has continued to this day, as writer, producer, flautist, vocalist and occasional guitarist, Anderson leads the band with boundless energy. TICKETS
May 2026
Sunday 10th May
Peter & Barbara Snape + Jeff Warner at Alder Bar
New Musical Traditions Club Doors 7.30PM TICKETS Peter and Barbara Snape are a very popular duo from the North West of England with a repertoire that is distinctly ‘northern’ in nature and liberally sprinkled with the ‘feel-good’ factor. Barbara’s versatile singing voice is full of character with both the sensitivity to move you with tales of hardships or sentimental love songs and the robustness to belt out invigorating, earthy numbers with such confidence that you will feel compelled to join in. Peter’s well-crafted accompaniments on the melodeon give life to the songs and the occasional dance tune will certainly set your feet tapping.
Jeff Warner is among the nation’s foremost performer/interpreters of traditional music. His songs from the lumber camps, fishing villages and mountain tops of America connect 21st century audiences with the everyday lives–and artistry–of 19th century Americans. “Providing more than just rich entertainment, Jeff will leave you with a deeper appreciation of the land you live in” (Caffé Lena, Saratoga, NY). His songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, bring us the latest news from the distant past. Jeff grew up listening to the songs and stories of his father Frank Warner and the traditional singers his parents met during their folksong collecting trips through rural America. He accompanied his parents on their later field trips and is the editor of his mother’s book, Traditional American Folk Songs: From the Anne and Frank Warner Collection.
John Doran & The Northern Assembly at Coal Aston Village Hall.
Coal Aston live. Doors 7.15PM starts 8PM Tickets OTD (usual price is £15) Bring your own drinks. Details
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Saturday 21st November
Bellowhead at Sheffield City Hall
6.30PM Supported by Seckou Keita. Bellowhead celebrate the 20th anniversary of their full-length debut album Burlesque in 2026. The 11-piece folk outfit made a watertight case for ‘big being beautiful’ with the release of Burlesque which features songs including London Town, Frog’s Legs and Dragon’s Teeth and Rigs of The Time. TICKETS