Monthly singaround at the Mayflower in Old Leigh

Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen

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

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

Phil Beer. Plays guitar and fiddle, sings a bit.

£12 members, £14 non-members

Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen

£7 members, £9 non-members

Monthly singaround at the Mayflower in Old Leigh

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

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

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

Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen

Monthly singaround at the Mayflower in Old Leigh

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

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

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

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

Monthly singaround at the Mayflower in Old Leigh

Monthly Folk Tunes sessions at Anke’s. Free to join in or listen

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

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

Originally formed  in 2009 The Medlars are folk trio from Essex, performing songs and tunes originated and rooted in the folk tradition, revisiting and creating new arrangements of classic English folk songs with a contemporary feel.  Its current line up formed from a chance encounter at Folk East 2017, The Medlars are now Alie Barnes - vocals, Emma Hardy - fiddle/vocals, Tom Hardy guitar/vocals.

Steve Tilston is one of our most celebrated song smiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music; the words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing could be no one else.

£8 members, £10 non-members

Though they grew up half a world apart, multi-award-winning songwriters Catherine MacLellan (Prince Edward Island, Canada) and Lucy Farrell (Kent, England) connect through the quiet brilliance of their songcraft and the warm clarity of their delivery.

£10 members, £12 non-members

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

Durham-based Bob Fox is among the best-loved and hardest working singer / guitarists in Britain. His fine voice and his repertoire of traditional songs and contemporary material appeal to all ages.

Bob has been featured on national radio and television, won several awards, and was nominated by the BBC as Folk Singer Of The Year 2004.

'The most complete male artist in English Folk' (The Daily Telegraph)

'One of the best voices in England' (Ralph McTell).

£10 members, £12 non-members

Brian Peters is one of the English folk scene’s great all-rounders, a compelling singer and an outstanding multi-instrumentalist on squeezeboxes and strings.

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

Driven by awe and wonder of the natural world Iona Lane delivers poetic songs, with subtle musical touches and contemplative melodies that link unheard stories with the world we find ourselves in today

£8 members, £10 non-members

Dave Ellis & Boo Howard are a long established London based acoustic singer songwriter duo.

With regular appearances at festivals and folk clubs, Dave & Boo are an integral part of the British acoustic folk scene and firm favourites with audiences up and down the land.

Vicki Swan & Jonny effortlessly blend traditional material with contemporary sounds. Their performances showcase new interpretations of old songs alongside original self penned tunes and new contemporary songs that are entirely at home in the tradition.

Be entranced by the haunting nyckelharpa, amazed at the cow horn (one of the worlds earliest communication devices) and meet some of the bagpipes that didn’t come from Scotland.

£8 members, £10 non-members

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

“With two grand voices – individually and in harmony” (Folker-German Folk Magazine), the Anglo-German duo Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer offer a versatile miscellany of self-penned and imaginatively arranged songs, delivered with guitar, woodwind instrumentation and occasional percussion.

£8 members, £10 non-members

London-based acapella group who first came together in 2016 having spent many years performing both solo and in other groups.

They share a love of traditional songs from across the British Isles entertaining with their arrangements of both the much-loved and less well known songs and encouraging audiences to join in.

£7 members, £9 non-members

Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow create joyous and virtuosic music that not only tugs at the heart-strings but also gets you up on your feet.

£10 members, £12 non-members

Emily is an outstanding acoustic guitarist, singer-songwriter from North Hertfordshire.

£7 members, £9 non-members

Fiddle player, folk singer and BBC folk musician of the year, Tom McConville from Newcastle upon Tyne.

£8 members, £10 non-members