Live music @ Ropery Hall
GreenMatthews’ GAUDETE!
12th December 2024 7.30pm £14/£16 | Sold OutFollowing on from GreenMatthews' 10 years of successful touring Christmas shows, Gaudete! is an expanded lineup playing new and exciting arrangements of Chris and Sophie’s popular festive fare. Fea...More info
Jackie Oates & John Spiers
13th December 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsMulti award-winning contemporary folk artists Jackie Oates and John Spiers meld together their shared love of English traditional folk tunes and songs with their fine voices and expertly pl...More info
The Guilty Men
14th December 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsDays of the Supergroup may be long past… but The Guilty Men would surely qualify for that description! The band is made up of five of the finest musicians from the Northwest of England. Between the...More info
The Churchfitters Christmas Cracker
19th December 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsThe Churchfitters is a folk group like no other. A double bass made out of scrap metal. Heart-wrenching vocals accompanied by a musical saw. Foot-stomping fiddle mixed with infectious funk-rock rhyth...More info
Folklincs Ceilidh
20th December 2024 8pm £5/£3 | Buy TicketsCalling all ceilidh callers, musicians, or dancers!This is your chance to have a go in a friendly encouraging atmosphere or just come along, listen or dance!All ages welcome ...More info
The Albion Christmas Show
23rd December 2024 8pm £25/£27 | Sold OutAn Albion Christmas has been touring for 20 years and is widely regarded as the premier seasonal show and attracts sell-out audiences across the UK. Indeed many people say that their Christmas does...More info
John Otway Band
18th January 2025 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsThe Set Remains The Same Thirty years ago, four musicians joined John Otway to form a band. Otway had just had some success with his autobiography – Rock and Roll’s greatest Failure. ...More info
Sax on Sunday with Sumudu
19th January 2025 4pm £16/£18 | Sold OutSnake Davis performs with Sumudu. 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...More info
Showman and Coole
25th January 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsSUPER-DELUXE FIDDLE, BANJO, AND SONG Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Co...More info
Jack Warnock
6th February 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsJack Warnock is a multi-instrumentalist and singer from Maghera, Co. Derry. Throughout his career, Jack has performed as a soloist, accompanist, and in groups such as TRODA, Cóiriú and The Doc Floc...More info
Brave Rival
8th February 2025 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsFive years on and Brave Rival are the fast-rising, rip-roaring, rock and blues juggernaut ready to take their place in the upper echelons of British Rock Hierarchy. Since their inception in 2019, ...More info
Cutting Crew
15th February 2025 8pm £24/£26 | Sold OutNick van Eede formed Cutting Crew in 1985 and within two years this Grammy nominated, Anglo-Canadian band had scored multiple worldwide hits including, of course, their 1987 USA #One, the timeless, m...More info
Snake Davis with Johnny Thirkell and Mark Creswell
23rd February 2025 4pm £17/£19 | Buy TicketsSnake teams up with long time cohort and best buddy Johnny Thirkell and their mutual friend, guitarist Mark Creswell, for an evening of gorgeous mellow music infused with jazz soul and pop. Snake ...More info
Bella Gaffney
27th February 2025 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsBella Gaffney (of The Magpies) is a folk troubadour whose music seamlessly weaves together original compositions and traditional tunes from both British folk and Americana traditions. Winner of the p...More info
The Blue Moon Band
1st March 2025 8pm £14/£16The Blue Moon is a vintage Rock’n’Roll band from the Watford, UK (the home of Rock’n’Roll, we’re sure you’ll agree!) the band have been playing sweaty pubs, festivals and even a few Europ...More info
Gaelforce
7th March 2025 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsGaelforce - winners of the 2023 introducing stage at the Great British folk festival - are a Celtic folk rock band with fiddle & Highland bagpipes who play Scots & Irish tunes and traditional...More info
Ezio
8th March 2025 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsFormed in 1990 Ezio are singer/songwriter Ezio Lunedei and guitarist and best friend Booga (Mark Fowell). Since forming they’ve released many studio and live albums from the critically acclaimed Bl...More info
Mishra
15th March 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsIn 2022, global-folk band Mishra met international fusion vocalist Deepa Shakthi (formerly Deepa Nair Rasiya). Out of a blossoming musical friendship, they began a collaborative project that takes th...More info
Reg Meuross: Fire And Dust, A Woody Guthrie Story
20th March 2025 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsCommissioned and produced by Pete Townshend and created by Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust - The Woody Guthrie Story is a journey into the heart and soul of one of America’s finest folk musicians.&nbs...More info
Steve Tilston
21st March 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsSteve Tilston is one of our most celebrated songsmiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music; the words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing could be no ...More info
Jazz Samba!
22nd March 2025 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsFeaturing leading tenor saxophonist Mark Crooks and award winning guitarist Nigel Price (as you’ve never heard him before!), Jazz Samba spotlights Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd’s ground-breaking 196...More info
Lynne Hanson
29th March 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsToo tough for folk and too blues-influenced for country, LYNNE HANSON’s brand of porch music with a little red dirt can turn on a dime from a sunshine, blue sky ballad to a full on thunderstorm of ...More info
Snake Davis & Gareth Moulton
30th March 2025 7.30pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsThe Snake Davis Gareth Moulton duo is an established act now not just an occasional thing any more.. The pair reckon Ropery Hall is the ideal venue for them. Mellow music infused with pop, rock, jazz...More info
The Rosie Hood Band
4th April 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsA Horizon Folk Award nominee, Rosie Hood is known for her powerful, clear vocals and captivating performances combining poetic writing with honest interpretations of traditional English songs. In her...More info
Jah Wobble
11th April 2025 8pm £24/£26 | Buy TicketsJah Wobble’s career speaks for itself, spanning over 40 year’ he’s played on countless albums, with performers such as PIL’s John Lydon, Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, U2’s The Edge, Sinead O’C...More info
Damn Tall Buildings
12th April 2025 8pm £15/£17* | Buy Tickets"Bluegrass at heart, but pulling from a wide range of influences including swing, ragtime, jazz, and even a hint of contemporary perspective in the songwriting, they offer virtually un...More info
Folklincs Ceilidh
18th April 2025 8pm £5/£3 | Buy TicketsAnother installment of the popular Folklincs Ceilidh. Dance, play or just come along and enjoy this family event. ...More info
Josienne Clarke & Band
26th April 2025 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsAcross the Evening Sky: Josienne Clarke sings the songs of Sandy Denny Josienne Clarke has been hailed as the songwriter-poet of melancholy, as well as a thrilling interpreter of traditional song....More info
Snake Davis & Chris Bannister
27th April 2025 7.30pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsChris is a singer-songwriter-guitarist of immense talent and class. The two met when Chris was invited to play an opening set on a Heather Small tour some years ago. They bonded immediately, socially...More info
David Ramirez
10th May 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsDavid Ramirez took a little time to get back to himself, and now he’s dead set on making music for himself—for the sake of the music… and nothing else. The Austin, Texas based singer-...More info
Peggy Seeger – 90th Birthday Farewell Tour
23rd May 2025 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsWith Neill & Calum MacColl Peggy Seeger, the grande dame of American and British Folk music, embarks on her last ever concert tour alongside her sons, Neill and Calum MacColl, in celebration o...More info
The Bridge: Eduardo Martín and Ahmed Dickinson
24th May 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsThe Bridge is Cuba’s most internationally acclaimed guitar duo. With their musical empathy, Eduardo Martín and Ahmed Dickinson transform their concerts into a vehicle that connects, incorporates a...More info
Edwina Hayes
4th October 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsOne of the finest female singer/songwriters this country has produced in years. Edwina brings together English folk, Americana and the rich Northern singer/songwriter tradition to create a sound that...More info
The Haar
18th October 2025 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsA radically fresh, boundary-pushing take on traditional songs. 'We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting' - FRUK Anglo/Irish folk band The Haar brings the formidable singi...More info
