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
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...
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,...
An acclaimed book about English rural traditions has been shortlisted for a national folklore award.
The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year written by University of Exeter English Professor Nick Groom has been nominated for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. The annual book prize was established by the Folklore Society in 1982 to encourage the study of folklore and to celebrate the life and work of the distinguished scholar Katharine Mary Briggs (1898-1980). The winner will be announced in November. Prof Nick Groom’s book celebrates the traditional connections between...
Record crowds enjoyed three days of music, song, dance and crafts at the 37th Dartmoor Folk Festival held from August 8 to 10.
Local and national artists entertained audiences at the event held at South Zeal, near Okehampton.
The festival included concerts, dances, a Dartmoor Fayre, a ceilidh, folk service, craft displays, music hall, pub sessions, a ramble on Dartmoor and music, song and dance workshops.
The packed programme of events also included a dedicated children’s festival.
Hotly-contested competitions included the Dartmoor Broom Dance championships...
