Live music @ Ropery Hall
Folklincs Ceilidh – December
15th December 2023 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
A Winter Union
16th December 2023 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsFive leading lights of the British roots scene join forces to create a festive folk band like no other. Expect soaring harmonies and exquisite musicianship as the 5-piece blasts through a repertoire ...More info
St.Agnes Fountain
22nd December 2023 8pm £18/£20 | Sold OutEach December St Agnes Fountain comes together for a Christmas Tour. Performing “rhythmed-up” carols and Christmas music, interspersed with laughter and spoken word. Founder member, David Hugh...More info
Snake Davis’ Alligator Shoes
30th December 2023 8pm £22/£24 | Sold OutBIG, brassy, saxy and soulful. Music that grabs your heart and moves your feet. The original, first and never forgotten 9 piece 60s soul band formed by Snake, with Dave Bowie Jr. and Mark Creswell...More info
Duke Garwood
13th January 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsRogues Gospel was recorded in the summer of 2020 in Bungalow Magic studios with longtime collaborator Paul May taking care of percussion and drums., Garwood on vocals, keys, guitar, bass and guit...More info
Yorkshire Gypsy Swing Collective
19th January 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsPresenting the Yorkshire Gypsy Swing Collective! Featuring some of the region's hottest gypsy jazz and swing players, playing music inspired from legendry musicians Django Reinhardt and Stephane ...More info
Chantel McGregor
27th January 2024 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsA female guitar prodigy, at fourteen Chantel was told by major labels that she had a "great voice, but girls don't play guitar like that!" Wisely ignoring the comments, she enrolled at the ...More info
Sax on Sunday with Don Richardson & Alistair Anderson
28th January 2024 7.30pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsThere’s Don Richardson on double bass, Alistair Anderson on Concertina and Northumbrian pipes. An old mucker and a new pal tonight. Snake sounds excited… Snake and Don go back decades, too man...More info
Edwina Hayes
2nd February 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsEdwina’s beautifully written songs, charming stage presence and voice of an angel have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-Americana. She has opened numerous shows for Jool...More info
The Horsenecks
3rd February 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsIt’s rare to find two musicians so finely-attuned to each other that they are barely a pulse apart. Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern have been impressing fans with a super-tasty interpretati...More info
The Breath
9th February 2024 8pm £16£18 | Buy TicketsThe Breath is Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. They met on the city’s gig circuit in the late noughties. An unlikely pairing though it was, he an ...More info
The Cinelli Brothers
10th February 2024 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsThe Cinelli Brothers, with UK Blues awards nomination best blues band for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, have a passion for the music of the 1960s, an amalgam of blues, rock and soul, and a...More info
Finn Collinson Band
16th February 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsExpect “initial touches of baroque fusing with modern day folk” (FATEA) as The FinnCollinson Band returns to the stage in 2024. Comprising three of English folk’s leading virtuosos of their res...More info
Rainey’s Ragtime Band
22nd February 2024 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsRecently formed, Rainey’s Ragtime Band, bring you music from the early years featuring Ma Rainey’s classic songs and a selection of well-known tunes. Immerse yourself in the nostalgic melodie...More info
John Etheridge with special guest Kit Holmes
1st March 2024 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsEnjoy an uplifting evening of: blues, folk, jazz, African grooves and much more from two outstanding guitarists. John Etheridge is one of the world’s most respected guitarists and with ov...More info
Nine below Zero Duo
2nd March 2024 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsDuring the pandemic Dennis Greaves put the lockdown to good use by compiling all the analog tapes in many formats he had in the loft and converting them to digital. The idea of DenMark was to re-...More info
Sax on Sunday with Dave Bowie Jr.
3rd March 2024 7.30pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsThese guys met over 40 years ago at Leeds College of Music, where they were first study flute players, and have been best buddies ever since. Dave plays in The Snake Davis Band, Alligator Shoes and B...More info
Iago Banet
8th March 2024 8pm £13/£15 | Buy TicketsIago was born in Galicia in the north-west of Spain. As a teenager, he found a classical guitar at home and set about learning to master it. From that moment, there was no going ba...More info
Martha Tilston Trio
9th March 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsWith a pure silken voice and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Martha Tilston has developed a successful musical career with a large and loyal following. She has performed on some of the world’s ...More info
Show Of Hands
14th March 2024 8pm £28/£30 | Sold OutFull Circle Part II: Show of Hands Return to Their Roots In the spring of 2024, music enthusiasts and folk fans across the nation are in for a treat as Steve Knightley and Phil Beer prepare to emb...More info
Mike McGoldrick, John Doyle and John McCusker
15th March 2024 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsFolk music’s legendary triumvirate of musical magpies Mike McGoldrick, John Doyle and John McCusker are on tour again in 2024, bringing you their own blend of top -class folk songs, tunes and charm...More info
Charlie Dore with Julian Littman
21st March 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsCharlie Dore is one of the UK's most respected singer songwriters. In an unusually diverse career her songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello nomination and both the Overall Grand a...More info
Ramblin’ Preachers
23rd March 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsThe influences are firmly set in the southern rock vibe and that’s where the band’s passion clearly lies. Trying to do something familiar but with a twist that keeps the audience engaged and inte...More info
Sax on Sunday with Gareth Moulton
31st March 2024 7.30pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsSnake Davis and Gareth Moulton 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...More info
Jon Doran & The Northern Assembly
6th April 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsJon Doran & The Northern Assembly are a ground-breaking new collaboration that seek to capture the excitement that lies within traditional song and breathe new life into old stories from the Brit...More info
The Often Herd
12th April 2024 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsBluegrass band The Often Herd transcend the traditional boundaries of the genre. Although they might resemble an American string band, complete with driving energy, tight vocal harmonies and dazzling...More info
Will Page
13th April 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsWell known as the fiddle playing front man of Americana band, Noble Jacks, Will Page is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Sussex. Will has toured relentlessly, including with his ban...More info
The Blackheart Orchestra
20th April 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsThe Blackheart Orchestra are multi-award winning, multi-instrumentalists Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Plkington. They comprise a two person ‘orchestra’ playing up to 13 instruments in their unique liv...More info
The Haar
27th April 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsThe Haar introduces the formidable singing talent of All-Ireland Scór na nÓg winner Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit...More info
Josienne Clarke
4th May 2024 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsIndie-folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Josienne Clarke is often said to draw on traditional British folk inspirations, but is a thoroughly modern, multifaceted artist who follows her o...More info
Gigspanner
9th May 2024 8pm £20/£22 | Buy Tickets"There’s something of the proverbial elder statesman about Peter Knight, in terms of his place in music, which cannot be overstated. It’s not just in the quality of his playing...there’s a focu...More info
John Bramwell & The Full Harmonic Trio
17th May 2024 8pm £25/£27 | Buy TicketsJohn Bramwell has been on a never-ending rolling adventure since his workings away from the cherished, Mercury Prize nominated Mancunian band, I Am Kloot. February 23rd 2024 will mark the release of ...More info
Looking for Me Friend
31st May 2024 7.30pm £17/£19 | Buy TicketsThe Music of Victoria Wood “The most feel-good show in town”⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (The Daily Mail) has spread nostalgia and laughter throughout the UK and has the seal of approval from Victoria’...More info
Eleanor McEvoy
30th November 2024 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsEleanor McEvoy was born on Dublin’s northside. After college, she pursued a career as a session musician in Dublin, collaborating with a multitude of artists and groups including U2, Sinead O...More info
