Penny Rea explores the Wilson Dynasty, which includes John Wycliffe Wilson, his brother HJ Wilson ,MP for Holmfirth and Cecil Wilson, MP for Attercliiffe for 28 years. Also Dr Helen Mary Wilson, President of Sheffield Women’s Suffrage Society. Meet lots of interesting characters. Free – starts 7.30pm. Space is limited so please arrive early to avoid […]
Hawthonn’s music has elements of folk – both in the patterns that Layla Legard’s pure voice follows, and in the inspirations that the band cite – romantic poetry, the history of magic and witchcraft, folklore and the English landscape. The musical backdrop is far from traditional, with dark […]
08/05/2019 Doors open 7.30pm Tickets available here C JoynesOver the last decade, C Joynes has ploughed a singular furrow through solo guitar, with a body of work incorporating English folk-tunes alongside North & West African music, and lifting proto-minimalist and improvised techniques from the European classical tradition. Shifting to solo electric guitar on his […]
Join Andy Whitehouse and some very special guests for an intimate and unique event. Michael Walsh is recognised as one of the leading flute and whistle players of our times, and will shortly be releasing a stunning debut CD “A Quare […]
Heretics Folk Club presents: Alex Rex and Bobby Lee 14/04/2019 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Tickets here Alex Rex is the solo project from Alex Neilson (Trembling Bells/ Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and friends. Singing songs of love, loss and loathing. […]
10/04/20197:30 pm – 9:00 pm How did a knight train for battle? Where did he learn his skills? How do you put on a full suit of armour? Learn the answers to these questions and more about the training of a knight and the development of armour from the 11th to the 15th century. Talk […]
Thursday 2nd May 2019 Retuning to the House by popular demand, Toffee Music is Mike Lydiat and Dave Markham. TOFFEE is an acronym for “Two Old Fellas For Evening Entertainment”! Dave has been ‘entertaining the troops’ for more than 40 years and Mike first ‘trod the boards’ in 1962. Between them they have a century […]
Friday 8th February 2019 Mother of Vinegar is a collaborative spontaneous arrangement of sound featuring a core of three performers (Mark Hadman, Lyn Hodnet and Ashley Tuck) each with contrasting approaches to the practice of music. Mother of Vinegar is the loss of control on the margins of expectation. Mother of Vinegar is giddy heights […]
Sunday January 13th Armenian duduk master Arsen Petrosyan joins singer and multi instrumentalist Jenny Bliss (‘fantastic’ Sean Rafferty, Radio 3) for a unique collaboration. The plaintive voice of the duduk is the iconic sound of Armenian music. Elizabethan lute songs, haunting Armenian melodies, virtuosic baroque sonatas for violin, evocative settings of Rumi poetry by Jenny […]