UPCOMING SHOWS
Folklore Sessions host live events & showcase performances at venues across the South of England.
We also host shows at our own venue - The Folklore Rooms
The third Tuesday, every month...
Folklore Monthly Showcase
The Folklore Rooms
Free Entry
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Once a month we bring three of our favourite artists to our home, The Folklore Rooms.
Having run since September 2014, Folklore has become a staple of the Brighton music scene having hosted over 300 different artists and bands including; Passenger, Bess Atwell, George Ogilvie, Phil Cook, Chloe Foy, Junior Brother, Jacko Hooper, Willy Tea Taylor, Katherine Priddy, The Xcerts and many, many more.
Free entry, doors are at 7.30PM and the first 60 people to arrive will have entry to the show - So arrive early!
Folklore Promoted Shows...
The Magpies
+ Rising Fever
12th October
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The Folklore Rooms
£12.50
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In their live performances The Magpies have been exceptionally well-received, with festival performances including Glastonbury Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Larmer Tree Festival, Shambala Festival, Towersey Festival and Deer Shed Festival and international shows in Canada, Ireland and Portugal, including Folk Music Ontario.
The trio have also made their mark as hosts of their own fast – growing signature Magpies Festival in the parkland of stately home Sutton Park, near York with top quality line – ups.
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“Check that album out! Really good mix of songs and instrumentals – they’re great players.”
– Mark Radcliffe – R2 Folk Show
“One of those effervescent albums you’d be happy to recommend to people who might not consider themselves folk fans.”
– The Sunday Times
Will Page
+ Support TBC
18th October
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The Folklore Rooms
£14.00
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With Noble Jacks Will has toured relentlessly with sold out shows across the UK and beyond. With notable festival performances at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight Festival and Cambridge Folk Festival to name a few.
In 2019 Will performed at AmericanaFest in both London and Nashville TN and was nominated instrumentalist of the year at the UK Americana Awards in Jan 2020. In April 2022, Noble Jacks exploded back onto the live scene with a brand new studio album, Last Of The Wild. The album entered the Top 40 Official Americana Album chart on its first week of release.
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Nadav Tabak
+ Support TBC
19th October
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The Folklore Rooms
£11.00
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Nadav Tabak has spent the last decade captivating audiences around the world as part of the internationally renowned guitar duo Opal Ocean. Now, in 2024, he embarks on his own unique musical journey, enchanting audiences with his spellbinding performances.
From fast-paced acoustic psy-trance to beautiful and exotic melodies, Nadav's music takes listeners on an adventure through a vast array of genres. Despite growing up in the peaceful suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, he combines his experimental mindset with a single looping pedal to craft intricate improvisational pieces that incorporate a variety of instruments, influences, and soul.
Nadav's dedication to creating an immersive and captivating experience is evident in his debut self-titled EP, which was composed and recorded in 2023. His music showcases a blend of tribal sounds, Spanish rumba guitar techniques, and the deep resonance of percussion instruments like the djembe and bass.
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Ralfe Band
+ Support TBC
25th October
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The Folklore Rooms
£13.00
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Ralfe Band’s fourth studio album, Achilles Was a Hound Dog, is a masterclass of songcraft that has gathered praise from Record Collector (‘Triumphant return. Punchy, finely crafted tunes’ ★★★★), Uncut (‘Dreamily cinematic songs’) and Mark Radcliffe (‘A terrific new album from Ralfe Band. I love this album’).
In support of the new album, Ralfe Band recently returned to BBC Radio 6 Music for a live session with Riley and Coe, and were invited by Gaz Coombes to join him on tours of Europe and the UK.
Ralfe Band’s Brighton connections go back to their debut album, when the band was signed to Skint by the Midfield General himself, Damian Harris. This resulted in the highly acclaimed album Swords in 2005. Studio albums that followed were Attic Thieves and Son Be Wise, plus a score and soundtrack for the feature film Bunny and the Bull (Warp Films/Film 4), directed by Paul King (Paddington).
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Ideal Living
+ Wonderbug + Rugrat
26th October
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The Green Door Store
£5.00
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Ideal Living are a seven-piece Post Spooky Art Rock band from Brighton, UK. Having been on the scene since mid 2022, the band's dynamic, energetic and captivating performance takes influence from the likes of Opus Kink, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Portishead.
Their dark overtones are complimented with brass, guitars and synthesisers which narratively navigate the loneliness and struggles with modernity.
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Jeremy Warmsley
+ Bella Spinks
30th October
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The Folklore Rooms
£10.00
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Jeremy Warmsley is an eclectic composer, songwriter and performing artist from London.
In 2005, aged 22, he signed to Transgressive Records (Foals, Flume, SOPHIE), with whom he released two albums of eclectic folktronica-inspired songs. He recorded with Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Bjork) and toured with the Shins and Regina Spektor, but a highlight of that period was performing with the legendary Daniel Johnston, accompanying him on some of his most beloved songs at the Brixton Windmill.
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In 2022, he released his fourth album, American Daydream, a concept album of original songs about the life and music of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. Jeremy continues to score films, TV, and podcasts, most recently, BBC1’s hit comedy POWER OF PARKER starring Conleth Hill, BBC Sound’s hit true crime podcast BELIEVE IN MAGIC. He has also been writing and producing with other artists including Katie Melua, Zoee and Lexabug.
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Folklore Halloween!
Feat. The Witchcraft & Vagrancy Act + Fae as Folk
31st October
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The Folklore Rooms
£8.00
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Join us at The Folklore Rooms for a Halloween Party for the ages! Fancy dress highly encouraged...
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The Witchcraft and Vagrancy Act combine experimental arrangements with traditional songs and tunes to unearth the dark side of folk music. Expect tales of magic, murder and misery, as TWAVA create their uniquely spooky interpretation of the folk canon.
Ríoghnach Connolly & Honeyfeet
+ Support TBC
3rd November
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The Prince Albert
£18.00
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Ríoghnach Connolly, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year, leads Honeyfeet with her eclectic taste for musical adventure. Together, they drive a broad terrain of musical textures, from esoteric protest songs to foot-tapping and floor-thumping dance rhythms. Known for her deadpan wit and broad, smiling on-stage banter, Connolly delights in sharing her multicultural voyage of discovery, pushing aside life’s banality in favor of mischievous energy and creative joy.
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Honeyfeet’s album, *Orange Whip*, released in March 2018, was met with critical acclaim and was BBC 6 Music’s Album of the Day. The band’s energetic and captivating performances have made them a staple on the festival circuit, headlining stages at Shambala, Beautiful Days, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, Boomtown, Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, and Kendal Calling – to name but a few!
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Allman Brown
+ Chloe Foy
6th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£15.00
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Allman Brown is a London, UK based singer-songwriter influenced by classic artists of the genre: Springsteen, Bon Iver, Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman and Feist.
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A preternaturally gifted vocalist, Brown has released two studio albums - 1000 Years (2017) and Darling, It'll Be Alright (2019) - and a number of EPs, which have accumulated 210 million streams and counting across both Spotify and Apple Music. Many of these songs have been used during dramatic moments of US TV shows such as The Good Doctor, Station 19, Criminal Minds and Suits, lending an emotional gravitas which has come to be associated with Brown’s music.
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His heart-on-sleeve compositions have taken him on headline tours of the UK, Ireland, continental Europe, Asia and North America, and in 2019, he was invited to open to Dido on her first run of live shows for 15 years - this culminated in two sold out nights at London’s Roundhouse. That same year “Dust & Heat” made the BBC Radio 2 playlist as well as the RTE Radio 1 playlist in Ireland, helping to cement Brown’s evergreen appeal.
Olive Jones
+ Support
10th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£12.00
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London-based singer, songwriter and guitarist, Olive Jones draws on soul, blues and alt-folk to produce her sumptuous melody driven music. Growing up singing along to the records of jazz greats and soul icons, the voice and its ability to captivate and evoke emotion has always been at the forefront of her musical passion.
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Since August 2023 she has accumulated over 1.2M monthly listeners on Spotify with over 1.9 million streams across her singles and received support from the BBC introducing team at Radio Solent. Olive has toured as the featured artist with Leeds soul outfit Gotts Street Park and collaborated with them on their leading album track “Tell Me Why” as featured vocalist. The single was playlisted on BBC6 Music and championed by Elton John on his Rocket Man show on Apple Music.
Yoshika Colwell
+ Support
13th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£10.00
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A captivating talent and vital new voice in the great canon of English folk music, Yoshika’s songs are often deeply personal and concerned with attempting to understand the self & others, time, nature and mortality. A life-long Joni Mitchell fan she also takes inspiration from a wide mix of artists inc. Gillian Welch to Linda Perhacs, John Prine to Talk Talk.
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2023 included shows with Bear’s Den and Gotts Street Park. Yoshika’s debut EP ’There’s A Time’ is out now on Blue Flowers Music and has seen support from BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, CLASH, The Line Of Best Fit and The New Cue.
Austel
+ Quaking Aspens + Thomas Willow
14th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£9
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Austel's self-produced debut album 'Dead Sea' was released in early 2024 - featuring collaborations with Grammy award-winning engineer Guy Massey (The Beatles, Manic Street Preachers, Kylie) and renowned mastering engineer Katie Tavini (Nadine Shah, Arlo Parks, Bloc Party). The artwork is by Colombian visual artist Natalia Giraldo Giraldo; a salt sculpture crafted from a cast of Austel’s head. Exploring the metaphor of salt’s dual qualities of pain and healing, Dead Sea is the culmination of seven year’s work and artistic development. The Dead Sea is one of the harshest, lifeless environments in the world, but Austel finds that even in the most barren of places, we can begin to recover.
Sly5thAve
+ Support TBC
24th November
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The Prince Albert
£12.50
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“SO good”
– Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music)
“All y’all need the check this cat when you can”
- Huey Morgan (BBC 6Music)
“Sly5thAve keeps on delivering”
- The Fader
“Sly5thAve on point”
- Tony Minvielle (Jazz FM)
Brooklyn-based producer, composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Sly5thAve presents his first ever Brighton live show, fresh from a North American tour with Alfa Mist, and arranging/conducting for Questlove and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Known for his sophisticated compositions, Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II aka Sly5thAve’s sound is shaped by his faith in hip-hop, and deep understanding of soul, R&B and jazz.
Project Smok
+ Sistie Moose
24th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£17.00
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Project Smok is the neo-trad trio of Ali Levack, Ewan Baird and Pablo Lafuente, whose nonconformist and progressive Scottish traditional music has set them apart since their formation in 2017.
With tunes built around the distinctive piping of BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2020 Ali Levack, paired with Ewan Baird’s skilled bodhran playing and Pablo Lafuente’s nuanced guitar, electric guitar and production, the trio manage to naturally bring together an array of musical aspects. Throw in instrumental virtuosity, blistering drive, infectious rhythm and a delicate sensitivity and you have Project Smok’s thirst-quenching sound.
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It’s little wonder they have fast become a recognised and household name in the traditional music scene. They boast nominations for ‘Best Up and Coming Artist’ at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2018 and the ‘Belhaven Bursary for Innovation’ at the same awards in 2019, not to mention an unforgettable collaboration with 2019 Scottish Album of the Year nominee Edwyn Collins on their 2020 debut album, ‘Bayview’.
Lydia Luce x Andrea von Kampen
+ Support TBC
30th November
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The Folklore Rooms
£13.50
Lydia Luce:
​On her new album Florida Girl, Lydia Luce offers up a body of work graced with all the transformative beauty of watercolor, at turns delicate, dreamlike, and instantly potent in its emotional realism. The second full-length from the Fort Lauderdale-born singer/songwriter, Florida Girl matches its luminous form of indie-folk with an in-depth examination of Luce’s inner life, exploring everything from mortality to body image to the ineffable intricacy of human connection. As she bares her soul and unburdens her heart, Luce slowly embraces her own infinite complexity—ultimately arriving at the self-possessed state of mind that inspired the album’s title.
Andrea von Kampen:
Sharing the stage with an impressive array of artists, including The Tallest Man on Earth, Trampled by Turtles, Watchhouse, Punch Brothers, The Wood Brothers, Bonny Light Horseman, Darlingside, Lief Vollebekk, Dead Horses, and many others, von Kampen has established herself on the road. She has played renowned music festivals such as The Newport Folk Festival and the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
Viv & Riley
+ Support TBC
24th January
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The Folklore Rooms
£13.00
Viv & Riley's sound is old-soul roots music to its core, elegantly combining a traditional backbone with the fresh iconic melodies of future-leaning indie-folk, and the tightly wound vocal harmonies of the old-time and classic country music they came from.
Although they grew up on opposite sides of the country, Riley in Seattle, Washington, and Vivian in Lexington, Virginia, the two had an instant musical connection upon meeting in 2018. The pair has been collaborating since then, honing their sound playing hundreds of shows across the US, UK, and Canada.
Since 2018, they’ve recorded and released multiple albums to critical acclaim from the likes of NPR Music, Rolling Stone, and No Depression, and have garnered nearly six million streams on Spotify.
Jamie Lawson
7th February 2025
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The Folklore Rooms
£28.00
Ivor Novello award-winning singer-songwriter Jamie Lawson releases ‘Matter To Me’ on September 22nd, the third single from his forthcoming 6th album Little Weaknesses, released October 20 th . Following a four-year hiatus, Jamie has returned with his most poignant and heartfelt work to date. Chronicling the earliest years of fatherhood and a newfound creative energy, Little Weaknesses is a record that embraces brightness and brims with optimism for the future.
‘Matter To Me’ is a cheerful, sing-along anthem that Jamie describes as “a song about letting those who need to hear it know that you’re there for them”. Continuing the thread of togetherness and love that defined the previous two singles ‘When It Comes To Love’ and ‘Napoleon Dynamite’, it’s a track that unapologetically cuts through the bleakness of the past few years and whole-heartedly champions joy – a message embedded into each moment on the album.
The Breath
+ Support TBC
21st February
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The Folklore Rooms
£22.50
The Breath have released three albums on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label. Their breakthrough album, ‘Carry Your Kin’ (2016) delved deeply into the spaces between rock, ambient and Irish folk, where layered vocals, mesmerising guitar riffs and expansive folk arrangements created a big sound. ‘Let the Cards Fall’ followed in 2018, and, like the first, was recorded with a full band granting a multi-textured kaleidoscope of sound with a cinematic sensibility.
eferences to Celtic history and cultural loss are woven into a bewitching collection of songs that span beguiling ballads and punch-the-air anthems. In support of the release, Stuart and Ríoghnach performed a series of shows – just the two of them. Stripped bare, they found a new depth and beauty in their songs allowing their extraordinary connection to shine through. The duo returned to the studio in 2019 to record ‘Only Stories (Let the Cards Fall Revisited)’ reimagining previous work (alongside two new songs) taking it back to its acoustic roots. This new direction would see Ríoghnach Connolly receive an RTÉ Folk Award nomination for Best Folk Singer and win Folk Singer Of The Year at the 2019 BBC R2 Folk Awards for which the duo were also nominated as Best Duo/Group.
Chris Brain
+ Support TBC
15th March
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The Folklore Rooms
£13.00
Yorkshire's Chris Brain has carved his place firmly into the contemporary folk scene following his highly-regarded first two albums, Bound to Rise (2022) and Steady Away (2023).
Garnering acclaim from the likes of Cerys Matthews (BBC 6 Music) and Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2), he has since shared the stage with iconic acts like Robert Plant, Jacqui McShee and Martin Simpson
With the release of his third much-anticipated album, ‘New Light’, in Spring 2025, he will be embarking on a UK/Ireland solo tour. ‘New Light’ brings a refreshingly contemporary sound as Chris contemplates transformation, nostalgia and tenderness in times of vulnerability - all woven around his familiar gestures towards the natural world.
‘There are shades of the master Ralph Mctell here and I can think of no greater compliment than that…Love it!’
- Mark Radcliffe , BBC 2 Folk Show
Some previous shows by Folklore Sessions
