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(15th Mar); Dorking Folk Club (20th); Arts at Stowe, Buckingham (21st); St Nicholas’ Church, Ringwould (22nd); Dunsden Village Hall, Reading (23rd); Riverhouse Barn, Walton-on- Thames (24th); West End Centre, Aldershot (4th April).
East Pointers are over in the UK for shows at The Bulls Head Alton, Stoke on Trent (25th Jan); Hepworth Village Hall (26th); Wem Town Hall, Whitchurch (27th); The Junction, Cambridge (28th); The Lexington, London (29th); Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Faringdon (31st); The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber (1st Feb); St George’s Church, New Mills (2nd); The Sage, Gateshead (3rd); and Glassel Hall, Banchory (5th and 6th).
The Hut People have upcoming concerts at Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis (12th Jan); Folk In The Barn, Canterbury (13th); WI Hall, Lowdham (23rd); The Junction, Goole (1st Feb); The Brindley, Runcorn (8th); The Browfoot Room, Ulpha (9th); The Greystones, Sheffield (16th); Parbold Village Hall (23rd); Queens Hall, Hexham (28th); The Witham, Barnard Castle (1st Mar); The Manor House, Sedgefield (2nd); Hermon Chapel, Oswestry (9th) and Under The Edge Arts, Wotton-under-Edge (23rd).
Pilgrim’s Way have
upcoming gigs at Grand Union Folk Club, Nr Loughborough (28th Jan); Music at Mottram, Cheshire (2nd Feb); Newbury Corn Exchange (15th) and Liverpool Philharmonic (8th Mar).
Collaborative project Band
Of Burns bring their debut album Live from Union Chapel on the road with gigs at Band On The Wall, Manchester (22nd Jan); Harlequin Theatre, Redhill, Surrey (23rd); St George’s, Bristol (24th); Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, Wales (25th); Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (26th) and Union Chapel, London (28th).
Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow play Ritz Acoustic Club, Burnham- on-Sea (17th Jan); Square & Compass, Swanage (15th Feb); Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol (17th) and Folk in The Foyer at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden (22nd).
Canadian old-time trio The Lonesome Ace Stringband play Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow (25th and 26th Jan)
Thunder & Rain
before tour dates that kick off in Northern Ireland and include The Old Courthouse, Antrim (30th); Culturlann, Derry Inbolc Festival (31st); Strule Arts Centre, Omagh (1st Feb); Portico, Portaferry, Co Down (2nd); Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast (3rd); Red Room,
Cookstown (5th); Canolfan Clydau, Tegryn, Pembrokeshire (7th); The Art Shop and Chapel, Abergavenny (8th); Selby Town Hall (9th) and Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (10th).
Colorado five-piece, Thunder
& Rain return to the UK for dates at The Atkinson, Southport (6th Mar); Blue Sky Café, Bangor (7th); The Ropewalk, Barton-upon- Humber (8th); Selby Town Hall (9th); Green Note, Camden (10th); Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh (11th); Anvil Arts, Basingstoke (13th); Burnett’s Hill Chapel, Narbeth (14th); Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey (15th); Square and Compass, Worth Matravers (16th); Whistable Sessions, Kent (17th); Courtroom Sessions, Middlesbrough Town Hall (19th); Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy (21st); Blue Lamp, Aberdeen (22nd); Tin Hut, Gartly (23rd); Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine (24th); The Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan (26th); and Eastgate Theatre, Peebles (27th).
Skinner & Twitch have tour dates at Sweet Afton Water Acoustic, New Cumnock (24th Feb); Leith Folk Club (26th); Bayfolk, Robin Hood’s Bay (15th Mar) and more.
Jess Ward has dates at Cellar
Bar, Cardigan (18th Jan); Snooty Fox, Pembroke (19th); Inkspot, Cardiff (20th); The Harrison, London (22nd); Shakespeare’s, Sheffield (23rd); Southbank Club, Bristol (24th) and Left Bank, Hereford (25th).
Simply Dylan are back on the road and for their fourth UK tour they play Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London (2nd Feb); The Lowry, Salford (3rd); Oran Mor, Glasgow (8th); Citadel, St Helens, Merseyside (9th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (15th) and The Sage, Gateshead (16th).
Birds Of Chicago have dates at The Greystones, Sheffield (24th Jan); Biddulph Town Hall (25th); Big Burns Supper, Dumfries (26th); Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge (27th) and Celtic Connections, Glasgow (31st).
GIGS
Liverpool Philharmonic has a line-up including Paul Jones & Dave Kelly, Martyn Joseph, Bassekou Kouyate, Vishtèn, Beth Rowley, Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Ezio, Pilgrim’s Way, Roy Harper, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Nick Harper, Blue Rose Code, Kitty Macfarlane and many more.
In Gateshead, The Sage has a winter programme including Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band, Bruce Molsky, Kate Rusby, The Demon Barbers, Jez Lowe, The East Pointers, Transatlantic Sessions, Fairport Convention, KT Tunstall, Roy Harper and more.
The Barbican in London hosts concerts in the new year with Le Trio Joubran, Transatlantic Sessions, Anouar Brahem and Rizwan-Muazzim Qawwali.
Coming to Birmingham’s
Town Hall are Kate Rusby, Transatlantic Sessions, The Lost Words – Spell Songs, Loreena McKennit, Roy Harper and more.
In Southport, The Atkinson has a programme including Fairport Convention, Martin & Eliza Carthy and Faustus, Shackleton Trio, Mawkin, Roving Crows, Blackbeard’s Tea Party and Urban Folk Quartet.
In Bristol, St George’s presents concerts with Cara Dillon, Band Of Burns, Chris Smither, Lau and Seth Lakeman.
The Stables in Milton
Keynes has a line-up including Cara Dillon, Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band, Martyn Joseph, Kathy Mattea, The Young’uns, The Black Feathers, Andrew Bird, Fairport Convention, Beth Rowley, Miranda Sykes, Nick Harper, Lau, Fisherman’s Friends, Seth Lakeman, Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham and Mawkin.
Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre presents gigs with Band Of Burns, Holy Moly & The Crackers, Megson, Blazin’ Fiddles, Jon Boden & The
Band Of Burns
Remnant Strings, Karen Matheson, Moya Brennan (Clannad) and more.
Playing at The Met in Bury in the coming months are The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, Edwina Hayes, Vishtèn, Red Sky Coven, Jackie Oates, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Blue Rose Code, Lau, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle, Jon Boden & The Remnant Strings, Karen Matheson and more.
London promoters Folk On
Monday have an upcoming programme in various venues across London. At The Green Note they have Matt Tighe & Tad Sargent, The Twisted Twenty, Shamblestone, Symbio, Dan Walsh & Alastair Anderson, Trials of Cato and Hannah Read. At The Slaughtered Lamb they have gigs with Counters Creek, The Outside Track, Phil 'Swill' Odgers, The Andy May Trio, Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, Tannara, Rachael McShane & The Cartographers, Steamchicken, Iona Fyfe. Jacob & Drinkwater and Jackie Oates have gigs at The Water Rats in King’s Cross.
Ropetackle Arts Centre in
Shoreham has gigs in the new year with Basco, Steve Knightley, Breabach, Knight & Spiers, Lo’Jo, Mànran, Blue Rose Code, Jackie Oates and Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage.
Coming to Aldershot’s West
End Centre are Jim Moray, Coco And The Butterfields, WÖR, Vishtèn, Blue Rose Code and more.
The Howard Assembly Rooms
in Leeds has a 10th anniversary season from January to March including a twilight concert from Seckou Keita and appearances from Songhoy Blues, Bassekou Kouyate, Fanfare Ciocârlia, Jon Boden & The Remnant Strings, Willie Watson, The Delines and many more. After that they will close for a year as part of Opera North's major Music Works redevelopment, which will bring a new dedicated entrance and a doubling in the size of the programme.
Norwich Arts Centre has an upcoming programme including Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys, Laura Veirs and Sam Amidon and Lau.
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