Category Archives: Music

Presenting the Yorkshire Gypsy Jazz Collective! Featuring some of the region’s hottest gypsy jazz and swing players, playing music inspired from legendry musicians Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli of the “Quintette du Hot Club de France”. Expect fiery solos, foot-stomping rhythms, burning ballads and even some Latin inspired piece. The collective remains in the spirit […]

The Budapest Café Orchestra  plays gypsy and  folk-flavoured music from all around the world delivering traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian traditional gypsy and folk music in their own fresh and surprising way with jazz nuances and their own unique arrangements. Established by award-winning British composer, violinist and teacher Christian Garrick in 2009 the Orchestra […]

Raised in Scunthorpe, now London-based, Sumudu has been a natural performer from a young age, singing, playing guitar and piano and writing songs. She made her TV debut on BBC’s Pebble Mill at One at the age of 15, performing her own composition, accompanied by Snake on sax and flute… Their next meeting was when […]

Sax On Sunday Snake welcomes back Tom and Melissa and he is looking forward to having to keep up with these very talented youngsters, playing more modern material than usual.

Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award- winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound. Nominated three times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) met while studying at Leeds College of Music and released their debut album […]

Greg Coulson is a British musical powerhouse – an expressive singer-songwriter and dynamic performer who blends soul and classic rock with the groove of blues, funk and jazz. Known for his mesmerising stage presence and unique sound, Greg has quickly established himself as one of the UK’s most exciting and versatile musicians. In 2018, Greg […]

The Snake Davis and Gareth Moulton duo is an established act now not just an occasional thing anymore.. The pair reckon Ropery Hall is the ideal venue for them. Mellow music infused with pop, rock, jazz and soul. Gareth Moulton, the Manchester born singer-songwriter-guitarist, is Snake’s long-time friend and collaborator in the Classic Sax Solos […]

Folk-rock rebels Blackbeard’s Tea Party celebrate 10 years of their seminal album ‘Reprobates’, a collection of stories about wrong’uns from history. They debuted material from the album during their now legendary appearance at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, and it was the album that earned them thousands of new fans. Mixing sounds of traditional folk and classic […]

The Luke Daniels Band is a bold force on today’s folk scene — a boundary-pushing collective led by visionary multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels. A former BBC Radio 2 Young Trad Award winner and global touring artist with Riverdance, Cara Dillon, De Dannan and Jethro Tull. Luke is reimagining what folk music can be — from his […]