We are sorry to announce that Roy Bailey will not be performing in tonight’s show due to illness (flu). Robb Johnson with whom Bailey performed the former’s acclaimed wartime suite Gentle Men at Kings Place in 2014 will join the line-up.

These four exceptional singers come together to share their unique takes on how traditional and contemporary song reflects on the times, past and present. They each perform and/or write songs of social change, offering a view of social history through the filter of song.

Folk singer, song-maker and activist Peggy Seeger is a complete one-off. A key member of the galvanising North American musical Seeger family, Peggy is a singer of traditional Anglo-American songs, a multi-instrumentalist and activist song-maker. She plays six instruments: piano, guitar, 5-string banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, autoharp and English concertina and has recorded 23 solo albums and participated directly in more than a hundred others!

Robb Johnson is now widely recognised as one of the finest songwriters working in the UK today. His songs feature in the repertoires of a wide variety of musicians, from folk legend Roy Bailey to acclaimed cabaret diva Barb Jungr, and he enjoys a similarly diverse spectrum of critical acclaim.

Grace Petrie is a powerful new politically-focused songwriting voice and activist. Her songs provide a soundtrack to the modern struggle, with politics and with love, that will resonate with listeners everywhere.

Ewan McLennan is a troubadour, balladeer and storyteller cut in the old style, for whom social justice is a burning issue. He is also known as a guitarist at the forefront of his generation. Ewan’s most recent project, Breaking the Spell of Loneliness, was a collaborative tour and album with renowned author and journalist George Monbiot, seeking to use music and word to open up the issue of loneliness and community.