Artists 2025
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Having bewitched audiences annually with their much-loved wintertime show Awake Arise, two of the most engaging and inventive acts on the English folk scene return with their hotly anticipated next alchemic collaboration.
Award winning trio Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew) have for nearly a decade produced “some of the most exquisite, thrilling work in the English folk scene” (The Guardian). The beguiling musical partnership of Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith complete the powerful line-up. As with their extremely popular wintertime show, the midsummer offering is a multi-layered, surprising and essential incantation to long summer days and effervescent nights.
Sunday 29th June
White Rock Studio, Hastings
Doors 7pm/Music 8pm
Lady Maisery and
Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
Wake fire : A midsummer celebration
June 29th
White Rock Studio, Hastings
MIKEY KENNEY
SEPT 26th - THE MINT HOUSE, PEVENSEY
THE BREATH
support from Bev Lee Harling
OCT 26th - WHITE ROCK STUDIO
The 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 acclaimed guitar whiz, ex long-time member of The Cinematic Orchestra and a softly spoken Manchester urbanite, she a folk singer with a larger-than-life personality and a powerful voice to match. Their connection was immediate; they formed The Breath in 2016, a singer-songwriter duo to present their contemporary take on alt-folk.
For them, it’s all about the song. Connolly is a storyteller and their exquisitely crafted, honest, personal, heartfelt songs are as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post- colonial injustices and grief. But it’s Ríoghnach’s impassioned delivery and extraordinary stop-you-in- your-tracks voice, coupled with Stuart’s understated brilliance that is so engaging.
WEDNESDAY 29th OCTOBER
White Rock Theatre, Hastings
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
TAMSIN ELLIOTT
NOv 27th - The CROWN HOUSE, ST LEonards
Tamsin is a folk musician, composer and film-maker based in Bristol, UK. With roots in the dance tunes of the British Isles, her interests and playing styles extend to European and Middle Eastern musics as well as experimental and ambient sounds. Her "beautiful, filmic compositions for accordion, harp, whistle and voice" (The Guardian) are grounded in tradition, whilst pushing boundaries and exploring minimalist, neo-classical, sound art and other non-traditional formats.
Her debut solo album ‘FREY’, which features the playing of Sid Goldsmith and Rowan Rheingans, was released to critical acclaim on Penny Fiddle Records in June 2022. Tamsin is well known as a collaborator and plays with duo partner Tarek Elazhary (Oud), is a co-founder of festival favourite group Solana and performs with European folk quintet Hedera, as well as in various traditional folk and ceilidh ensembles. Join Tamsin in the intimate setting of The Crown House in St Leonards for a sneak preview of new music from her second solo disc, The Meeting Tree.
Thursday 27th November
The Crown House, St Leonards
Doors 7pm/Music 8pm
FLOCK
DEC 12 - White Rock THEATRE STUDIO
Altjazz supergroup FLOCK comprise an exceptional line-up featuring Bex Burch (Vula Viel/Leafcutter John), Sarathy Korwar (UPAJ Collective/Anoushka Shankar), Tamar Osborn (Collocutor/Dele Sosimi), and Al MacSween (Kefaya/Yazz Ahmed).
Their 2nd album, FLOCK II, was recorded amongst the scenes of the West Wales coastline and countryside. Nestled amongst the environs of the mystical Druidstone, the group crafted unique musical devices for each piece, taking inspiration from unconventional structures and atmospheres.
The group's ability to showcase and utilise musical shapes and repeated patterns set a state of mind and a unique approach to their compositions. The fruits of a strong and joyful bond between five of the UK’s finest musicians, FLOCK stands as another essential listening experience without genre or category. This rare end-of-year appearance is one not to be missed.
Friday 12th December
White Rock Theatre Studio, Hastings
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
Mikey Kenney is primarily a respected fiddle player, singer, songwriter and composer from Liverpool, but he is also a multi-instrumentalist, often performing many of the parts on his recordings (on banjo, mandolin, guitar, melodeon etc).
Embracing duality, Kenney is very much the musical outsider artist; he is hailed by many as an important conduit of learning, conserving and handing down both English and Irish traditional fiddle music in England & The Northwest and yet he is constantly composing alternative and progressive music of his own with his last two releases.
For Kenney both of these releases serve as stepping stones in his artistic disciplines, and through direct experience, Kenney allows other musical forms such as psychedelia, bluegrass, jazz and Italian tarantella to seep into his music but never so far as to allow any one influence to dominate his deep love for traditional fiddle playing. Playing music from his new album Tiny Little Light, join us in the intimate and esoteric setting of The Mint House, Pevensey.
Friday 26th September
The Mint House, Pevensey
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm