COUNTRY & FOLK MUSIC IN LONDON
COUNTRY & FOLK MUSIC IN LONDON
Most Popular Country & Folk Music in London
Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
New Wimbledon Theatre
Tue 10 Dec 2024 - Sat 22 Feb 2025
Clearwater Creedence Revival - All Star Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute
The O2 Arena
Sat 29 Mar - Sat 24 May 2025
Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls
Alexandra Palace, London
Saturday 22 February 2025
The Hampshire punk and folk artist was initially a vocalist in the punk rock band Million Dead, before turning his focus towards a folkier, acoustic-based solo career. Since that time, he has reached international acclaim as a chart-topping...Ward Thomas
Union Chapel, London
Tuesday 25 February 2025
One of the first genuine major British Country acts, twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas from Hampshire, can boast a UK no.1 in the main album charts among other Top 10 entries. As young females who have fought their own way to suc...Fionn Regan
EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Irish folk musician Fionn Regan has fine-tuned a sensibility of his own since the acoustic poetry of his debut album, 2006's Mercury Prize-shortlisted The End of History. Since then, he has travelled between band-based detours and the glea...Jeremy Loops
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Thursday 27 February 2025
The Cape Town Pop/Folk star arrived on South Africa's music scene with an unexpected commercial force, debuting at No. 1 on iTunes in 2014 with his debut album, 'Trading Change', topping radio charts, and quickly developed a cult following ...
Chris De Burgh
Cadogan Hall, London
Friday 28 February - Sunday 2 March 2025
Chris de Burgh celebrates a remarkable and rare career milestone during 2024; half a century as a recording artist. Over the course of five decades, Chris has achieved worldwide album sales in excess of 45 million, performed approaching 4,...Sturgill Simpson
Eventim Apollo, London
Saturday 1 March 2025
Grammy-award winning Kentucky Outlaw country star Sturgill Simpson delivers "sleazy, steamy rock n roll" With nods to psychedelic drug chronicler Rick Strassman and a cover of Mancunian synth-pop also-rans When in Rome's "The Promise" his ...
Peat & Diesel
100 Club, London
Thursday 6 March 2025
The story began when three Stornoway Cove's (Innes, Uilly and Boydie) met up in the house to have the craic on a Saturday nights playing music with just the dog and the cat watching. After a few tunes getting thrown across the room Boydie s...The Ocelots
Green Note, London
Thursday 6 March 2025
Twins from Wexford, Ireland, Brandon and Ashley have crafted their songwriting and musical experience together to produce a forceful blend of rich harmonies and bare, raw acoustic folk. The Ocelots started originally through busking around ...
The Brothers Gillespie
Green Note, London
Saturday 8 March 2025
Brothers James and Sam Gillespie grew up in the Northumbrian village of Wall and sing finely crafted original and traditional songs. Rich with lyrical intensity and the sounds of soaring sibling harmony, guitars, flute, fiddle and mandoli...Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound Of Steely Dan
Jazz Cafe, London
Sunday 9 March 2025
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. Nearly Dan's approach is faithful, thou...Michael Kiwanuka
Eventim Apollo, London
Monday 10 March 2025
Michael Kiwanuka is a British singer-songwriter (indie rock/folk rock/soul) and record producer who is signed with Polydor Records. His 2012 debut album, Home Again, went gold in the United Kingdom and his second album, Love & Hate, debuted...Nadia Reid
EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London
Monday 10 March 2025
New Zealand folk artist Nadia Reid has praised the world over for her intimate, complex songwriting. She is described by The Guardian as "an understated, wise guide through uncertain territory", while her lyrics are called "allegorical... b...Hejira Play Joni Mitchell
Jazz Cafe, London
Tuesday 11 March 2025
?They came to listen because they love Joni Mitchell, but they went away loving Hejira.? - Jazzwise Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band Hejira performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding v...
Clairo
Eventim Apollo, London
Thursday 13 - Friday 14 March 2025
 Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, known professionally as Clairo, is an American lo-fi folk pop singer-songwriter. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Carlisle, Massachusetts, she began posting music on the internet at age 13, rising to pro...Bear's Den
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 13 March 2025
British folk rock duo from London, formed in 2012, who have released three studio albums: Islands (UK no.49), Red Earth & Pouring Rain (UK no.6) and So That You Might Hear Me (no.13). The band has been nominated for several music awards thr...The Weather Station
Islington Assembly Hall, London
Thursday 13 March 2025
The critically acclaimed Canadian folk band, fronted by Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman, with her gentle, conversational, intoning voice, deliver jagged music, with stabbing strings, saxophone, and several layers of percussion. Emergi...
David Kushner
O2 Academy Brixton, London
Saturday 15 March 2025
Compared to Bon Iver and Hozier, Chicago singer-songwriter went viral on TikTok in 2022 with his song "Miserable Man", which peaked at number 11 on the charts in Norway and number 19 in Ireland, additionally reaching the top 40 in Austral...Damien Dempsey
Electric Ballroom, London
Saturday 15 March 2025
Irish chart-topping singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey mixes traditional Irish folk with a myriad of styles including rock and reggae, and contemporary lyrics that deliver social and political commentaries on Irish society, singing in both ...Calum Bowie
The Garage, London
Saturday 15 March 2025
Calum Bowie is an Edinburgh based singer-songwriter from Banchory in Aberdeenshire whose presence among the Scottish music scene has grown exponentially, with his captivating melodies and authentic lyrics fuelling his uplifting music, his c...Nathan Carter
London Palladium, London
Sunday 16 March 2025
Quickly becoming one of the UK's most prolific touring artists, wowing crowds with his sensational live show, Liverpudlian Irish country pop star Nathan Carter returns. One of the UK's most exciting live performers, his energetic showmanshi...Alec Benjamin
Royal Albert Hall, London
Sunday 16 March 2025
Critically acclaimed Arizona-born, New York-raised and University of Southern California enrolled folk pop singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin breakthrough in 2018 when his single "Let Me Down Slowly" reached the top 40 in over 25 countries, i...Mad Dog Mcrea
The Garage, London
Sunday 16 March 2025
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flie...IDER
Heaven, London
Tuesday 18 March 2025
North London-based "cross-genre" electropop duo IDER are back. Formed after meeting at Falmouth Univeristy, Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville have cited Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, Beyonce, ...Wardruna
Royal Albert Hall, London
Wednesday 19 March 2025
The Norwegian music constellation are a group renowned for their innovative and genre-creating renditions of older Nordic traditions. Transcending music genres, cultures and languages. The group has previously charted in both Germany and th...The Dead South
Eventim Apollo, London
Thursday 20 March 2025
A rock band without a drummer, a bluegrass band without a fiddler. To the gentlemen of The Dead South, a self-styled 4-piece string band from Saskatchewan, Canada, it's about how, not what, you play. The two-time JUNO Award winning, Canadia...Ry X
Eventim Apollo, London
Friday 21 March 2025
Australian transcendental folk artist RY X, born Ry Cuming, showcases a boundless ability to create thought-provoking atmospheric pop music, engulfed with his distinctively ethereal vocal lines, cloudy orchestral arrangements and accomanyi...Ry X
Eventim Apollo, London
Friday 21 March 2025
Australian transcendental folk artist RY X, born Ry Cuming, showcases a boundless ability to create thought-provoking atmospheric pop music, engulfed with his distinctively ethereal vocal lines, cloudy orchestral arrangements and accomanyi...Miracle of Sound
Islington Assembly Hall, London
Saturday 22 March 2025
Cork indie musician Gavin Dunne, better known by the name of his music project "Miracle of Sound", performs music inspired by video games, films, and TV shows. While not widely known in his home country of Ireland, his music is very popular...Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners
Dominion Theatre, London
Sunday 23 March 2025
Direct from the West End, the show brings to life the music of Ireland's favourite sons 'The Dubliners'. Telling the story of a career spanning 50 years and evoking the spirit of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Jim McCann, Ciaran B...Lynne Hanson & The Good Intentions
Green Note, London
Monday 24 March 2025
Too tough for folk and too blues influenced for country, Lynne Hanson's brand of "porch music with a little red dirt" can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full-on thunderstorm of gritty Americana swamp from one song to t...Morgan Wade
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Tuesday 25 March 2025
When Arista Nashville breakout artist Morgan Wade made her first full-length album Reckless , it was a fistful of songs torn from the life of a girl not afraid of pushing life to the edge. Bold and startling, the guitars pushed forward and ...
The Mary Wallopers
O2 Academy Brixton, London
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Described by The Guardian as "invoking the raucous ghosts of The Dubliners and The Pogues to startling effect", The Mary Wallopers are a folk group from Dundalk, Ireland, breathing new life into both well known & rare ballads. Travelling th...Clearwater Creedence Revival - All Star Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute
Forge, London
Saturday 29 March 2025
The best tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival you're ever going to see. Selling out at venues all over the world, the band features road-hardened players who, collectively have performed with Stax legend Steve Cropper, Big Country, Den...Beans On Toast
The Dome, London
Saturday 29 March 2025
The foolhardy cult folk legend and accomplished songwriter offers some hope and light relief from this bizarre world in which we find ourselves, singing simple songs about complicated subjects. Joined by a brand new live band, Beans will be...Beans on Toast
The Dome London, London
Saturday 29 March 2025
The foolhardy cult folk legend and accomplished songwriter offers some hope and light relief from this bizarre world in which we find ourselves, singing simple songs about complicated subjects. Joined by a brand new live band, Beans will be...
David Gray
Royal Albert Hall, London
Thursday 3 April 2025
Multi-platinum British singer-songwriter David Gray is hitting the road in 2020 to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of White Ladder, his fourth studio album which sold seven million copies. Not only did it propel him into the mainstream, b...Orla Gartland
O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Thursday 3 April 2025
Dublin singer-songwriter Orla Gartland had a childhood steeped in music. Taught traditional folk instruments at the age of five, she moved onto the guitar at 12 and posted her first video to YouTube at 13. The ever-humble musician's online ...Badly Drawn Boy
EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney), London
Thursday 3 - Friday 4 April 2025
Dunstable-born, Bolton-raised, Manchester-living Mercury-prize winning folk rocker Damon Gough has always been one to wear his heart on his sleeve, and his truly personal and heartfelt catalogue of glorious, colourful warming, honest pop so...The Delines
Union Chapel, London
Thursday 3 April 2025
Sometimes, fate's just a damned cruel thing. But when it nearly capsizes the career of an acclaimed band in the blink of an eye, the band's only prudent choice is to hang in there until the ship is ready to sail again. That's what The Delin...
Proud Mary
100 Club, London
Saturday 5 April 2025
Celebrating 20 years of their classic album "The Same Old Blues", Manchester band Proud Mary are very pleased to announce a series of special anniversary gigs, including an unmissable homecoming set on 24th September. The five-piece will be...Bob Fox, Jez Lowe & Julie Matthews - In the Footsteps of Ewan MacColl
Ye Olde Rose And Crown Theatre Pub, London
Sunday 6 April 2025
A concert of songs and spoken word with Jez Lowe, Bob Fox and Julie Matthews. In the '50s and '60s influential Salford folk singer Ewan MacColl along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts f...Miss Americana - A Tribute to Taylor Swift by Xenna
