Our Next Event
SHOWCASE
Friday 10th June
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Sheri Kershaw
After a lifetime of touring and playing alongside the biggest names, Sheri has moved into her own ground, writing and performing her own songs, Blues, Americana, ballads, sometimes jazz influenced, always following her creative inner world allowing her natural musical soul a place to fly and to be heard. Aided by her band including King of the Telecaster Martyn Hewitt and bass player David Cammish
http://www.sherikershaw.com/
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Steve Warner
Writing, composing and performing in acoustic venues across the country. Steve is an accomplished singer and performing his own compositions as well as well chosen covers. ‘Steve tells great stories through his songs and captures the audience with his engaging delivery’ Gilmore&Roberts
‘A beautiful man with songs you can’t forget, couldn’t help joining in with his songs’ Ward&Parker
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Bay Whitaker
Bay Whitaker has been writing and performing songs in Sheffield’s vibrant folk scene for 20 years. Between 2009 and 2013 she created and ran a grassroots ethnomusicology project “Sheffield Babel Songs” that collected songs and memories from the city’s diverse international population. Bay’s songs are often comedic, sometimes sad, and increasing grumpy about the state of the world. She says, “Where I live – in Hillsborough – in many ways feels culturally a thousand miles away from Royston. But when I attend folk music events in this town, there is that sense of recognition – we really come together as people when we sing and play together.”
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Sarah Munro
“What a gorgeous voice! I think she’s absolutely fabulous – real purity and clarity to her voice.” — Michael Ball, BBC Radio 2
https://www.sarahmunromusic.com/
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Dave Letus (King of the Barstool Rodeo)
drinker-songwriter
SHOWCASE
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Pat Crilly and Greg Camburn
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Bass & Taylor
Ray Taylor and Anna Bass we have seen as part of the excellent band Two Coats Colder. But after two years of lockdown together the inevitable happened … they strengthened their bond, wrote and practised together, and the result a wonderful set of songs from Bass & Taylor
https://www.facebook.com/bassandtaylor/
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Cut the Mustard
Acoustic duo Martin Kaszach and Dave Oxley with a passion for blues and ragtime music.
https://www.facebook.com/Cut-the-Mustard
SHOWCASE
Friday 8th July
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Pat Crilly and Greg Camburn
Along with …
Ray Taylor and Anna Bass
Cut the Mustard
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SHOWCASE
Friday 12th August
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Kaszak and Afifi
long with …
Phil Crawford
Shorelines
Colin Frid
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SHOWCASE
Friday 12th August
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
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SHOWCASE
Friday 9th September
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Wickenwood
Along with …
Rhys Wilson
Kelly Burkitt and Hart
Big Buch Band
Thursday’s Band
SHOWCASE
Friday 14th October
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Lizzy Hardingham
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Carol Cullen Smith
Tom Penn
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SHOWCASE
Friday 11th November
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Sky West
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Anna Hester
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SHOWCASE
Friday 11th December
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
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WELCOME TO OUR 2023 EVENTS
SHOWCASE
Friday 13th January
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
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CONCERT Friday 27th January
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£15 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
Vicki Swan & Johny Dyer
This thoroughly entertaining duo have developed an enviable reputation for their ability to reimagine folk and folk dance music; creating sounds that are simultaneously new and progressive, and yet entirely sympathetic to the tradition. You are very likely to find yourself dancing to a song – and we dare you not to sing the chorus as you go.
Vicki studied at the Royal College of Music on the double bass. She also plays the various types of bagpipes, flute, recorder, piano and nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed
-fiddle).
Composer and competition-winning guitar player; Jonny’s outstanding technical ability, coupled with a wide-ranging musical taste has made him a tireless and forceful musical innovator. Jonny has been singing and playing choral music, soul, jazz and folk for as long as he can remember.
http://www.swan-dyer.co.uk/
SHOWCASE
Friday 10th February
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
Featuring …
That Blue Patch
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CONCERT Friday 24th February
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
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SHOWCASE
Friday 10th March
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£7 cash or card on the door
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CONCERT Friday 24th February
At The Royal British Legion
7:30 for 8pm to 11pm
£15 cash or card on the door
Featuring … Chris Wood
Chris in his solo incantation is folk royalty and you are guaranteed a sensational night.
In 2006 the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards, the Best Original Song category was won by Chris Wood (and storyteller Hugh Lupton) for One in a Million, a modern retelling of a widespread traditional tale in which a lost ring is rediscovered in the stomach of a fish. In the same year he was also nominated in three other categories: Best Album for The Lark Descending, Best Traditional Track for Lord Bateman ……and …. Folk Singer of the Year.
In 2009, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards recognised Wood as Folk Singer of the Year, and his album Trespasser was also recognised as Album of the Year.
In 2011, Chris Wood again tasted success at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where he was recognised again as Folk Singer of the Year as well as winning Song of the Year for his song Hollow Point, from his album ‘The Handmade Life’, a song about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
http://chriswoodmusic.co.uk/
Support by Mark Gamon
Our very own Mark with a solo set
‘A fine guitarist, singer and songwriter, in styles from folk to blues to jazz… it’s a great collection of stories and a very good listen…’……….UNICORN MAGAZINE
‘The songs really do sparkle with the journeys that are recounted… lives being characterised in sympathetically expressed lyrics…’…….R2 MAGAZINE
‘Genuinely witty in places – running almost contradictory to a blues undertone that reaches through the album… It definitely grows on you…’………FATEA
https://www.markgamon.com/