Folk

The renowened New York based duo The Kennedys are bringing their tour to The Bridge Inn, Topsham on Saturday May 2nd.

They are doing a 10 date tour of the UK to celebrate twenty years together and the release of their new album West.

“an inspired collection of sixties-flecked folk rock full of broad vistas.” The New Yorker

“Probably their best album yet and one well worth your time.” Americana-UK

Former X Factor constant, Lucy Spraggan is bringing her 'The Unsinkable Tour' to Exeter on the 20th May.

With her acoustic folk pop, she mixes humour and honesty with her incredible talent. She brought unique talent to the ITV talent show but unfortunately only got to the fifth week due to illness and she left the competition.

Her eagerly anticipated debut album 'We Are...' is to be released on the 13th April.

Support will come from the extremely talented folk indie, Kal Lavelle.

Tickets are £16 including booking fee, link to tickets are...

BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year (2014) Bella Hardy is one of the most creative, prolific and original singers in the UK. Her captivating voice inhabits her characters and spins her stories with an equal balance of strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, she presents folk songs in the best tradition; not as antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant and very human artworks.

Launching her 7th album 'With The Dawn' on 30 March 2015 Catch her live on this major tour.. 06 May 8pm Tickets £12/£10 conc.

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman announce their album "Tomorrow Will Follow Today" being released 23Feb2015.

After being voted "BestDuo" in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2013, and also nominated for "Best Original Song" (The Ballad of Andy Jacobs), in ‘Tomorrow Will Follow Today’ they add two rarely covered traditional songs to eight confidently written compositions to create a superb new album.

TOURING TO SUPPORT THE RELEASE DURING SPRING 2015 ‘TOMORROW WILL FOLLOW TODAY’ TOUR COMES TO EXETER PHOENIX, see them live Thursday 30 April...

Fiddle player, singer and writer Nancy Kerr is a 5 times Radio 2 Folk Award winner; Her new solo album Sweet Visitor has been described as “Outstanding chamber folk” (The Guardian) and “Simply perfection” (English Dance and Song Magazine). Touring as Nancy Kerr and the Sweet Visitor Band in Feb/March 2015 Joining Nancy live are Jamie Roberts (Dovetail Trio, Gilmore and Roberts) Tom Wright (Albion band, Park Bench Social Club, Eliza Carthy) Tim Yates (Blackbeard’s Tea Party, The QP) and Rowan Rheingans (The Rheingans Sisters, Lady Maisery). www.nancykerr.co.uk

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This year sees the tenth anniversary of Exeter’s Swedish St Lucia Procession, a traditional Scandinavian midwinter celebration of light and song first brought to the city by local folk singer Rosa Rebecka from her homeland of Sweden in 2004.

In the decade since, the celebration has grown from strength to strength, with Rosa’s Scandinavian choir, ExeSwedes, and friends singing traditional Sankta Lucia songs in pubs, theatres, churches, and even Exeter cathedral.

This year's Lucia procession will be held at St Andrew’s Church on Alphington Road on 6.30pm Saturday 13th...

Spiro first met on the Bristol music scene and have been together, their line-up completely unchanged, for over 20 years.

That the group still boast their original line-up speaks volumes for their sense of collectivism and solidarity.

These are virtues that are writ large in their music, a commendable all-for-one sensibility.

Listen to just a few bars of any track and that tight ensemble sound is both overwhelming and invigorating.

Their tour supports the album Pole Star re-issued in 2014.

Spiro are Jane Harbour: violin Jason Sparkes: piano accordion...

The UK's Leading Female A cappella Quintet. Consistently honed over the last two decades, their music transcends age, race, gender or religious persuasion. Black Voices has an extensive repertoire of traditional songs from Africa, jazz, gospel, pop, Motown, Caribbean and English folk. Black Voices' describe their repertoire as 'a carefully woven tapestry covering a broad spectrum of musical styles' and they continually add new threads of colour to their rich fabric of oral music.

A warm welcome awaits over the weekend of Friday 24th to 26th October 2014 at the Baring-Gould Folk Festival, hosted by Devon’s folk arts charity Wren Music.

The intimate and friendly festival is firmly established in the old market town of Okehampton, nestling on the northern slopes of Dartmoor.

The Festival is inspired by the folk song collecting of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) - one of the Victorian era's great social historical researchers. He undertook the first serious and sustained attempt to collect the traditional songs of the English peasantry and workers,...