This is the debut outing for Olivia Chaney's glamorous new folk-rock band, which she’s calling (for now) News from Nowhere. Picking up where her acclaimed album 'The Queen of Hearts' left off, Chaney will perform new electric arrangements of classic folk songs.
An organic, authentic & fun folk concerts for big & little music connoisseurs, folk duo Megson return to Kings Place for their ever-popular family folk concert.
Innovator, award winning, multi-instrumentalist Malin Lewis' debut at Kings Place, melding Scottish West coast tradition with a newly invented, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, queerness and the universe.
Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage release their fifth studio album 'The Strangers' Share'; a record centred on dreams and the supernatural.
The Gigspanner Big Band are a unique force in British folk music... Their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and to those looking for something more experimental, and they have garnered praise from publications as varied as fRoots, The Telegraph and The Wire, where they were described as ‘melodically folk-rooted yet open and innovative beyond the constraints of genre’.
The Sam Sweeney Trio brings together three of the UK’s most compelling folk musicians to play music from across Sam’s discography: Sam Sweeney (violin), Ben Nicholls (double bass), and Louis Campbell (guitar).
Kris Drever is among Scotland’s most acclaimed and distinctive contemporary musicians, celebrated for his warm voice, virtuosically expressive guitar playing and imaginative and evocative songwriting.
Two of the most electrifying virtuosos of the UK scene, Jack Jennings & Omar Puente create new music inspired by the world's biggest natural sound library. A powerful electric band led by guitar and violin, combining raga themes of Indian classical music, with a jazz/rock rhythm section of Domenico Angarano on bass, Arthur Newell on drums.
Stevens & Pound are BBC Radio 3’s award-winning percussionist Delia Stevens ('superb' Financial Times) and triple BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee, harmonica player Will Pound ('One of the world’s top harmonica players' Daily Telegraph).
Celebrated for her "velvet-voiced authority" (The Scotsman), Carnie blends traditional Gaelic roots with cinematic, contemporary soundscapes. One of Scotland's most compelling musical voices, performing with her own band, as well as the lead singer of the multi-award-winning band Mànran and a founding member of the experimental folk ensemble Staran.
Join vibrant group Kit Downes, Lauren Kinsella and Robin Fincker, for an evening of modern and folk music with a repertoire of improvisation and original compositions.
This show is a meditation on the artist and the muse, past and present. Moving seamlessly through different eras, Olivia will perform new material and ideas, while revisiting beloved and lesser-known songs from her growing back catalogue.