Category Archives: Music

The Alex Hamilton Band performs mostly original Blues/Rock/Americana music, combining melodic and powerful vocals with a rock solid rhythm section and virtuoso heart-felt lead guitar. One of the UK’s hardest working bands, this family powered trio was formed in 2010 and since then have been booked for more than 700 shows from Shetland to Slovenia, […]

Stereo Naked When hot Paris-based all-girl trio, Fierce Flowers, issued their Mirador album in 2020, it stimulated a frenzy of media interest that resulted in a huge amount of exposure in the UK. Julia Zech’s vocals featured strongly and she had written a large number of the album’s killer tracks. When differences led to a […]

Acclaimed national touring artist Mark Harrison brings his unique music and band to The Ropewalk. There is no one in music quite like Mark Harrison. With his unique and acclaimed rhythm section, he is widely considered one of the most original and interesting artists around.  His highly individual, all-original music has taken him and the […]

Katie Doherty formed the Navigators in 2018. Their power and dynamic is often described as much bigger than its component parts. Katie’s songs hang on the precipice of the current state of the world. There is enormous heart filled hope but there is much riding on where we go from here. The songs paint sweeping […]

Will Finn and Rosie Calvert are a folk and traditionally-inspired musical duo from the north east of England. They are graduates of the Folk and Traditional Music BA at Newcastle University and have been taking the festival circuit by storm with their acapella harmony quartet The Teacups for the past 10 years, performing all over […]

Support by Andrew WaiteMulti-award winning band, The Outside Track, fronted by four powerhouse women – Teresa Horgan, Mairi Rankin (Beolach), Ailie Robertson (Live Ireland Winner, BBC Young Trad Finalist), Fiona Black (BBC Fame Academy Winner) – released its fifth studio album, Rise Up, in January 2020. Having headlined major Folk Festivals all around the world, The […]

Two of the finest instrumentalists in traditional music combine to bring a tour de force of breathtaking performances, which first started in lockdown with a video that was an international internet sensation.  An outstanding talent in his generation, harmonica and melodeon player Will Pound has pushed the boundaries of both instruments, sharing awe inspiring performances […]

              These guys met nearly 40 years ago at Leeds College of Music, and have been best buddies ever since. Dave plays electric bass in The Suspicions, The Alligator Shoes, and double bass in Burden of Paradise. Vocals, saxes, flutes, whistles, bass, guitar and a wonderful collection of songs ranging from The Coasters through […]

2020 saw Clive Gregson’s 40th year in the music business when he was due to mark the end of an era as he’d decided to retire from solo touring at the end of the year. Yes, you’ve guessed it, the pandemic put paid to that! To belatedly celebrate his illustrious four-decade career, Clive will be […]