#SBFest24 Springboard Festival.
Day one (Sat 4th May) features drama ('F***ing Feminists' & 'Vita and Virginia'), music from Carol Whitworth and poetry/spoken word with 'Zero Hour'.

Tickets are just £10 and £5 for under 25's.
criteriontheatre.co.uk/tickets

30 balcony tickets have just been released for our formerly sold out OXFORD show, go get them! 🔥

The ⏲️ is ticking - time to get your applications in for £2,000 of funding for folk performers from all cultures aged 16-30 to support the growth of your music or dance career.

Deadline: April 30

Apply: alansurteestrust.org.uk

Your day splits are IN! Coming for a day of the whole weekend? Start planning your festival now.

Detailed timings will be released later this summer.

shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/line-up/who-is…

This wonderful new book by Noé Àlvarez is now out and available to buy. I was lucky enough to be interviewed by him to talk about my journey in playing the diatonic accordion!

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738560/a…

#accordions
#books
#tradmusic
#interviews
#stories

Do you know, I don't think I officially announced: my book Billy Waters Is Dancing will be published by Yale Univ Press! You can find out more about the project here: tinyurl.com/438b2f69 The Leverhulme Trust @rsvp Houghton Library Roehampton English & Creative Writing

Naked Sprout- Bamboo toilet rolls- 100% organic bamboo, no bleach, no chemicals & no plastic 🙌🏼
Available by the roll or as a box of 9 🧻 🧻🧻 @refill_uk
Naked Sprout are charity partnered with @just_a_drop helping to implement sustainable clean water, sanitation and hygiene 🌍

If you're considering an application to the trust this year, take a look at last year's successful recipients to understand a little more about what we're looking for!

alansurteestrust.org.uk/2023grantrecip…

So proud to be part of this incredible Amazing Grace research project from Invisible Folk - read this review from KLOF Mag who describe is as a “fine album” - Thankyou friends! 🙏🏾 #amazinggrace

24/5/24 pre-order now blairdunlop.com

So excited to get this out into the world 🙌

We got CDs, vinyl, t-shirts, cord caps

So much love and gratitude to everyone involved

WarwickFolkFestival Fay Hield TreeHouseBookshop Definitely was 😁😁😁Really enjoyed it! Great collection of songs. Thanks so much! Ellie Gowers

Monday’s OTBT (6pm somervalleyfm.co.uk) features my interview with Bonfire Radicals appearing WarwickFolkFestival Festival (25 – 28 July)! Expect also fellow Warwick artists, Farefeld & The Unthanks as well as new High Llamas, new mark lockheart & classic The Blue Nile

Sam and I are back with a new Thank Goodness It's Folk and we're joined by Martin Simpson to talk about and listen to Skydancers - it's a thing of beauty. 10am today, sheffieldlive.org/player
Also new music from Aoife O'Donovan Angeline Morrison Miranda Rutter Ben Nicholls and more x

We’re playing a very special concert in this amazing cave in Cornwall on May 11th. Never sung in a cave before! It’s gonna be deep. Get your tickets now!

Another photo from a while ago...

This was Claines Church Fete, our first public gig. Any performances before this were school assemblies full of uninterested and slightly bemused teenagers.

15th anniversary tour starts next week and we can't wait!

grannysattic.org.uk/gigs

Leg 1 ✅

A few extra curricular shots from the start of the tour. Love being on the road with Painted Sky 💜

We resume tomorrow in Bristol at TheJamJarBristol- tickets going well, should be a very fun one.

Archie Moss joining us on box 🪗

Tickets👇
headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/jam-j…

Just Folk Witnessed the heck out of Frankie Archer and Jim Moray in beautiful Brighton. Great music, a huge mix of songs and styles. Look lively, people of Birmingham, London and Chester! They’re coming your way!

Skydancers, the new album by Martin Simpson is unbelievably good.

Actors & Writers London *NEW ACCOUNT* Criterion Theatre Thanks for the tweet. First produced by @kat_Anne_Rogers WatFringe & The Cockpit it formed part of Spiral Path with runs in St Albans & White Bear Theatre & LondonPubTheatres nomination.

'Meet me at the Nightingale' by AWL's Andrew Sharpe Andrew Sharpe will be performed in the Springboard Festival at Criterion Theatre, Coventry, on 7th, 8th & 10th May.

criteriontheatre.co.uk