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The Shackleton Trio
Captivating songwriting and fiery tunes that combine mandolin, fiddle, guitar and banjo with powerful three part harmonies. The unmistakable sound of The Shackleton Trio brings to life the stories of their native East Anglia, and beyond.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Mossy Christian and Meghan Wisdom
Hailing from Lincolnshire and East Anglia respectively, Mossy Christian and Megan Wisdom perform traditional English folk songs, unaccompanied or supported by a variety of instruments. With songs from traditional singers such as Cyril Poacher, Sam Larner, and Oscar Woods, influenced by revival era performers such as Peter Bellamy, Anne Briggs and Nic Jones.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Painted Sky
Painted Sky have already made a lasting impression with their progressive acoustic sound, balancing their original material thoughtfully with the duo’s roots in traditional English music
.The duo have played live shows around the UK, with festival highlights including performances at Towersey Festival, Edlefest and Thame Town Music Festival
£8 members, £10 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
The Famous Potatoes
An earthy mix made up of folk, celtic, cajun, hillbilly, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, skiffle… and anything that brings that ‘old time, good time’.
£7 members, £9 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
John Kirkpatrick
John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, and Brass Monkey.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
State of the Union (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams)
Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Their performances are consistently brilliant, equal parts emotive and entertaining.
£12 members, £14 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
John Ward Trio
John performs in folk clubs, festivals and theatres across the UK and beyond, mainly with wife, Lynne, and band mate, Les Woodley, as the imaginatively titled John Ward Trio! This line-up delivers powerful 3-part harmonies, with acoustic guitar, bodhran, harmonica, double bass, mandolin, accordion and recorder to bring a fuller sound to John's excellent songs. The Trio also draws on its wider repertoire of traditional and contemporary folk tunes and songs, many of them suited to communal singing. The Trio’s performances are authentic and heartfelt, engaging audiences with their choice of material, thoughtful arrangements, versatility and humour, not to mention John’s blistering bodhran solos, which all blend to delight and entertain folk audiences in intimate venues and bigger stages alike. £8 members, £10 members
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from East Anglia. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Counters Creek
Counter's Creek is an acoustic folk band based in London who make original music inspired by the folk music of the British Isles and beyond.
£8 members, £10 non-members
The Magpies
Transatlantic folk band The Magpies are quickly becoming one of the most exciting and innovative acts on the contemporary roots scene. Combining sublime harmonies with exquisite musicianship and impressive songwriting, The Magpies traverse Anglo and American roots, drawing inspiration from traditional Celtic folk, bluegrass and Appalachian trails, to create an effortless melting pot of music.
£10 members, £12 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Steve Turner
Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business. He is a multi-instrumentalist, who also accompanies himself on the cittern, and also plays mandolin and tenor banjo
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Tannahill Weavers
"Formed from a Paisley pub session in 1968, seminal trailblazers the Tannahill Weavers now also rank as national treasures."
£10 members, £12 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts
Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award-winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound. Nominated three times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) met while studying at Leeds College of Music and released their debut album in 2008..
£10 members, £12 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Liz Simcock
Liz Simcock is one of the country’s finest female singer songwriters. Her songs – often autobiographical and highly personal – are immediately accessible to audiences and injected with poetry, emotion and splashes of humour.
£7 members, £9 non-members
The Brothers Gillespie
Described by Folk Radio UK as ‘weaving an especially compelling magic’, and 'showing British acoustic music in its best possible light’, the music of Northumbrian duo The Brothers Gillespie is animated by lyrical songwriting, fine fingerstyle guitar playing, multi-instrumental musicianship and ‘the glorious tones of their blood harmony’ (Sam Lee).
£10 members, £12 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
Described in The Living Tradition as ‘captivating, bold and striking’, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is at the forefront of his generation of English folk musicians as both a powerful and commanding singer and a masterful player of the Anglo concertina and melodeon.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Open night/Jack Forbes - 80th birthday memorial tribute
Dan Forbes presents a tribute to his late father, Jack Forbes, in what would have been his 80th year. There will be performances from many of his friends and former bandmates to remember a local and national folk legend.
Part of the evening will be in the format of an ‘Open Night If you’d like to perform please turn up early and speak to that evening’s MC. Performers normally get a chance to do one or two numbers in front of an attentive and appreciative audience.
Open Night admission is only £2, and free for performers.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Jez Lowe
The return of Hoy favourite Jez Lowe
Over the past four decades, Jez Lowe has been one of the UK’s busiest singer-songwriters, playing for audiences the world over, either solo, or with his long-time band The Bad Pennies.
Along the way he has gathered a long list of awards and nominations, including from the BBC Folk Awards and the Sony Radio Awards. His pace and enthusiasm for writing, performing and touring shows no sign of waning.
£8 members, £10 non-members
Max De Bernardi & Veronica Sbergia
"Good time blues is alive and well and residing in... Milan, Italy. A band with a mission" - Folk & Roots Magazine
Veronica Sbergia & Max De Bernardi passionately play country blues and ragtime, hokum, jug band and rural music from the 20's and 30's.
Expect an evening of joyous music and dazzling musicanship!
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
The Umbrella Factory + Any Good Thing
A Special Night Double Bill
£7 members, £9 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Arfur Do and the Toerags
Hoy favourites Arfur Doo and the Toerags.
£7 members, £9 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen
Nick Dow
Nick Dow has been singing traditional Folk Songs for over Forty years.
.Every song Nick sings has a story attached to it, and his gigs are as informative as they are entertaining
£7 members, £9 non-members
Open Night
Like an ‘Open Mic’ without the ‘Mic’ - a full evening of floor spots and a chance to showcase local folk talent.
Always a great, fun evening full of variety.
£2 Members, £4 non-members. Free for performers
Lynne Heraud & Pat Turner
Individually, and in combination with a variety of well-known singers and bands, Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner have both served long apprenticeships on the shop-floor of folk music.
Their style is a unique blend of stunning song and harmony, and a humour which takes their audience on a roller-coaster ride - "everything from high tragedy to ingenious smut in glorious vocal harmony!"
£7 members, £9 non-members
Belinda Kempster & Fran Foote ++ plus ++ Captain Morgan’s Rum Do
A Special Night Double Bill
£7 members, £9 non-members
Hoy at Anke's Tunes Session
Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen