COUNTRY & FOLK MUSIC IN LONDON
Most Popular Country & Folk Music in London
Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane
Saturday 4 May 2024
Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane present a unique song-and-story performance of their stunning album, Lost in the Cedar Wood. Created during the pandemic, the album bases itself loosely upon the world's oldest written work of literature,...
Cosmo Sheldrake
Saturday 4 May 2024
Cosmo Sheldrake, the prodigiously talented and profoundly unique singer, songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from London, writes songs under the influence of a diverse group of musicians - ranging from The Beatles and T...
Elephant Sessions
Sunday 5 May 2024
Celebrating their 10th year as band in 2022, multi-award winning indie folk quintet Elephant Sessions have gone from humble beginnings in the Highlands of Scotland, to playing around the world and scooping prestigious awards for their true...
John Francis Flynn
Sunday 5 May 2024
Folk singer, guitarist, flautist (and practitioner of the double tin whistle), John is also a member of celebrated traditional group Skipper's Alley. Alongside improvisations and tunes picked up by John along the way, material the uncomprom...
Tom Walker
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Scottish-Mancunian singer-songwriter Tom Walker is one of the most successful breakthrough stars. His song, Leave a Light On, has been a hit in various countries worldwide. Walker has enjoyed a phenomenal start to 2019. He released his debu...
Mitski
Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 May 2024
With electronic drum pads pulsating underneath fervent guitar lines, critically beloved Japanese-American indie folk singer-songwriter Mitski has cemented her reputation as an artist capable of using her talent to perform the alchemy that t...
Blair Dunlop
Thursday 9 May 2024
One of the UK's most accomplished songwriters, Blair Dunlop is back on tour in anticipation of his fifth studio album, Let's Get Out of the Rain. This will be Blair's first Studio album since 2018's Notes from an Island. Where 'Notes' w...
Bailey Zimmerman
Thursday 9 May 2024
As a spellbinding storyteller, sharp songwriter, powerhouse performer and history-making, double platinum-certified phenomenon, celebrated Illinois Country Music singer/songwriter Bailey Zimmerman has personified the American dream from th...
Crywank
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 May 2024
Crywank are a Manchester based anti-folk band. They mostly write "sad songs for smelly losers" and have been told they are the worst named band in the country. Originally a solo project in 2009 by James Clayton, despite having no previous e...
New Model Army
Saturday 11 May 2024
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army's beginnings were inspired by Northern Soul, Punk Rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey. They have been massively influent...
Kacey Musgraves
Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 May 2024
30-something Texan country pop songstress Kacey Musgraves has enjoyed success across the globe, including UK Top 10 albums and hit single "I Remember Everything" with Zach Bryan. Rolling acoustic guitars, puffy clouds of strings and synth...
The Black Crowes
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Although essentially a modern blues rock group, chart-topping Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, better known as The Black Crowes, cite many musical influences, such as psychedelic pop from the 1960s, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rol...
Faye Webster
Wednesday 15 - Thursday 16 May 2024
Emotional and musical alchemy, Atlanta, Georgia, Faye Webster's indie folk sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city's rap an...
CMAT
Thursday 16 May 2024
CMAT is the stage name of Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, the North Dublin-born global country-pop star who after relocating to Manchester aged 17 and forming the band Bad Sea, returned home to live with her grandparents before settling down in ...
Katherine Priddy
Friday 17 May 2024
Since emerging with her debut EP 'Wolf' in 2018, the Birmingham-based folk artist has quickly become one of the most exciting names on the British scene. Declared 'The best thing I've heard all year' by Richard Thompson, who later invited h...
Ferocious Dog
Friday 17 May 2024
Ferocious dog-an English folk-punk band from Warsop, Nottinghamshire. The band have headlined tours of the UK and Europe, and performed in Dubai, festivals such as bearded theory, Alchemy, Deerstock festival farmer Phils, noble and beautifu...
Lankum
Saturday 18 - Sunday 19 May 2024
Drawing on traditional folk songs, RTE Choice Music Prize winners (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new ...
Patrick Droney
Saturday 18 May 2024
A child of the dedication line and VHS era, soulful Brooklyn-based artist, producer and virtuosic guitar sensation Patrick Droney survives on sentimentality. It hits him every time he hears Delilah on late-night radio or passes by the Blo...
Hayseed Dixie
Sunday 19 May 2024
Hayseed Dixie began one innocent Summer day in 2000, when John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John's studio. Having spe...
Hayseed Dixie
Sunday 19 May 2024
Hayseed Dixie began one innocent Summer day in 2000, when John Wheeler and Mike Daly drank roughly enough whiskey to float a battleship from the Florida Coast over to Portugal and back and decided to play around in John's studio. Having spe...
Apes Of The State
Sunday 19 May 2024
Be Sharp Promotions and New Cross Live presentsApes Of The StateApes of the State is an independent folk punk band from Lancaster, PA. As a band, they are driven by DIY ethics with a goal of helping as many people as possible with their mus...
The Staves
Monday 20 - Tuesday 21 May 2024
English indie folk trio-turned-duo, Watford sisters Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor, take to the road for the first time following the departure of sister Emily, who has stepped away to focus on motherhood. ...
Tim Booth: In Conversation
Monday 20 May 2024
Join James frontman Tim Booth in an evening to celebrate his book launch. This will be an intimate evening of conversation with special guests, readings from the legendary Seth Brakes manuscript 'When I Died For The First Time', and some lo...
The Handsome Family
Tuesday 21 May 2024
The Handsome Family (songwriting and marriage partners Brett and Rennie Sparks) have been defining the dark end of Americana for over 30 years. Brett writes the music and Rennie writes the words. Their work has been covered by many artists ...
KT Tunstall
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Grammy-nominated Edinburgh troubadour KT Tunstall burst onto the music scene with her 2004 multi-platinum debut, "Eye to the Telescope", which spawned the global hits "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree", "Other Side of the World" and "Sudden...
The Mountain Goats
Wednesday 22 May 2024
The Mountain Goats are, for all practical purposes, the endlessly clever and prolific former California nurse John Darnielle and whatever cast of musicians he's working with at the moment, which means the indie folk sound may change from pr...
Richard Marx
Wednesday 22 May 2024
As a performer, songwriter and producer, Richard Marx's nearly three-decade-long career has had innumerable highlights. The Chicago native has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, starting with his self-titled debut which went to #8 ...
Aaron West + The Roaring Twenties
Wednesday 22 May 2024
The creation of Dan Campbell, best known as the vocalist of Philadelphia band, The Wonder Years, who performs the songs live in character for a show that feels in part theatric, Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties is as much a band as it ...
Damian Lewis
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Hollywood actor Damian Lewis makes his music debut with a thoughtful collection of rootsy, rock and jazz-tinged songs that reveals a deep love of music, and a deep need to communicate. After leaving school, he took to the road with his guit...
Kawala
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Starting their musical journey while studying in Leeds, North London duo Jim (vocals) and Dan (acoustic guitar, vocals) quickly developed a distinctive sound as an acoustic indie-folk act, finding inspiration from a range of musical styles....
Kawala
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Starting their musical journey while studying in Leeds, North London duo Jim (vocals) and Dan (acoustic guitar, vocals) quickly developed a distinctive sound as an acoustic indie-folk act, finding inspiration from a range of musical styles....
