Live music @ Ropery Hall

  • GreenMatthews’ GAUDETE! 

    12th December 2024 7.30pm £14/£16 | Sold Out

    Following 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 Tickets

    Multi 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 Tickets

    Days 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 Tickets

    The 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 Tickets

    Calling 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 Out

    An 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 Tickets

    The 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 Out

    Snake 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 Tickets

    SUPER-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 Tickets

    Jack 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 Tickets

    Five 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 Out

    Nick 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 Tickets

    Snake 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 Tickets

    Bella 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/£16

    The 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 Tickets

    Gaelforce - 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 Tickets

    Formed 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 Tickets

    In 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 Tickets

    Commissioned 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 Tickets

    Steve 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 Tickets

    Featuring 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 Tickets

    Too 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 Tickets

    The 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 Tickets

    A 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 Tickets

    Jah 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 Tickets

    Another 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 Tickets

    Across 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 Tickets

    Chris 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 Tickets

    David 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 Tickets

    With 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 Tickets

    The 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 Tickets

    One 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 Tickets

    A 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