GIG DIARY ARCHIVE
More dates coming very soon! Including Ralph McTell at St Mary's Sandwich
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Benji Kirkpatrick
Tickets £11 booked and paid for in advance
£12 on the door
Doors 6pm - performance start time 6.30pm
Pub open for food from 5pm, or book a table for after the concert.
Multi-instrumentalist Benji Kirkpatrick is best known as a key member of folk big band Bellowhead, who p...Read more >>
Chris & Kellie While
Whenever you hear two superb vocalists sing together, it's a great experience, but when they are related it's becomes something else. Here we have Mother (Chris While) and Daughter (Kellie While) two of Britain's finest Singer / Songwriters / Guitarists. Firm favourites with our audience - sell...Read more >>
Girlyman
We can now confirm plans and details for Girlyman. We fell for them hook line and sinker last time they came back in October 2010. It was shortly after their return to the US that Doris was diagnosed with Leukaemia and we were very concerned. The good news is she has made a full re...Read more >>
Fairport Acoustic Convention - 4 TICKETS LEFT !
Tickets £18 full price £16 concessions paid in advance.
£1 extra on the door.
Unreserved seating
doors 7pm for 8pm start
Fairport Convention is one of best loved live bands on today’s concert circuit. Their sell-out gigs attract critical acclaim and delight audie...Read more >>
State of the Union - Boo Hewerdine & Brookes Williams
Tickets £12 paid in advance, £1 extra on the door
£8 Students
Unreserved seating
Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
State Of The Union is Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams.
Hewerdine is an English songwriter and lead singer of indie legends the Bible. ...Read more >>
Beatles, Blues & Blue Violin
Tickets £13 in advance £1 extra on the door
Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
Former ELO and ELO II stars and current members of The Orchestra Phil Bates & Mik Kaminski with Tina McBain from The Eleanor Rigby Experience
One of the most famous violin play...Read more >>
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Tickets £12 paid in advance £1 extra on the door
Unreserved seating
Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
This event is part of the Canterbury Arts Council Showcase, a month-long celebration of local grass roots arts events.
For further information on the showca...Read more >>
Iona
Tickets £14 paid in advance, £1 extra on the door
£10 students.
Unreserved seating
Doors 7.15pm 8pm start
Formed in 1989, IONA take their name from the small island off the west coast of Scotland. From the beginning, their aim has been to write spiritual, atmo...Read more >>
Phil Beer supported by The Scarlet Jacks
Tickets £13 Box office 10am – 12noon
01227 272042 or book online
www.playhousewhitstable.co.uk
Doors 7pm for 7.45pm start
One half of the UK’s foremost acoustic duo Show of Hands, Phil is one of the most popular ambassadors for acoustic roots music. A dazzling in...Read more >>
ahab supported by Ben Folke Thomas
Tickets £12 in advance, £1 extra on the door , £8 students.
Doors 7.15pm 8pm start
Band tipped by ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, to return to Folk in the Barn
Canterbury music lovers are in for a treat when ahab, a young band tipped for the top by Bob Har...Read more >>
Reg Meuross
DOORS 6PM FOR 6.30PM
TICKETS £11 £1 EXTRA ON THE DOOR
Folk in the Barn is known for producing cosy intimate concerts with the UK’s best Folk /Roots and Acoustic performers, in the most beautiful and atmospheric local venues. This new venture sees us goin...Read more >>
Martyn Joseph supported by Luke Jackson A FEW RETURNS AVAILABLE TO RE-SELL
Just when you think you’ve got a handle on singer songwriters, along comes Martyn Joseph to blow the myth away.....
An acoustic artist with an electrifying spontaneity, this colossally gifted and gracious Welshman has five Top 50 hits to his name (including Dolphins Make Me Cry and Plea...Read more >>
St Agnes Fountain
ST AGNES FOUNTAIN is the labour of love of four of modern acoustic music's brightest (Christmas) lights - singer/songwriter David Hughes, Fairport Convention's Chris Leslie and respected female duo Chris While and Julie Matthews.
The St Agnes Fountain oak grew from the acorn of a limited edition...Read more >>
Lau SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT
Winner of ‘Best Group’ in BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008, 2009 & 2010
Winner of ‘BEST LIVE ACT’ Scots Trad Music Awards 2009
This generation’s most inventive folk band return with new tours and energetic performances for 2011
'Quite frankly, the bes...Read more >>
Philip Henry & Hannah Martin sptd by The Scarlet Jacks
Recently described as, “Authentic, haunting roots music from a first class duo” (Seth Lakeman), Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin are two musicians with a growing following on the folk and roots scene.
Fast becoming recognised as one of the finest slide guitarists the UK has produced, ...Read more >>
Nick Harper spt by Alister Atkin
Son of the legendary UK singer-songwriter Roy Harper, Nick was born in London and raised in Wiltshire. Having played the guitar from the age of 10 and surrounded by the likes of Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and Dave Gilmour as he grew up, it was no surprise when Nick made his recording debut...Read more >>
Turin Brakes spt by Blair Dunlop
Turin Brakes are urban folk pop duo - guitarist/vocalist Ollie Knights and multi-instrumentalist Gale Paridjanian.
Ollie and Gale grew up as friends in Balham, South London. Both members of their local church choir, in 1989 they sang in front of the Queen at the memorial service for the Ma...Read more >>
John Williams & John Etheridge SOLD OUT !
SOLD OUT - EMAIL debs@folkinthebarn.co.uk to go on waiting list - please include phone number and number of tickets you'd like.
Something a bit different - but very very special....
Folk in the Barn in association with St Mary’s Art Centre proudly present a performance by two of the world&...Read more >>
Dougie MacLean
Dougie MacLean is one of Scotland's most successful, respected and popular musicians.
Singer-Songwriter, Composer and 'magical' Performer, he is also a fine guitarist and fiddle player. From his home base in Butterstone near Dunkeld in the beautiful Tay Valley in Perthshire Scotland, MacLean ...Read more >>
Uiscedwr
* please note change of venue due to building work - Now being held at The Chapel, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Rd, Canterbury CT1 1QU - opposite side of the Road from St Gregory's, enter through Gate 4, free parking all along inside the campus wall. Another beautiful venu...Read more >>
Christine Collister
"Christine’s career now spans an incredible 27 years! The voice of the BBC's 'Life and Loves of a She Devil', she's worked with a host of excellent musicians (Peter Frampton, Richard Thompson, Louden Wainwright III) and has appeared on countless radio and TV shows including 'Whistle Test', 'Jo...Read more >>
Steve Knightley
Steve Knightley is the songwriting force behind Show of Hands, widely acclaimed as the finest acoustic roots duo in England and with three Royal Albert Hall sell-outs to their name.
The Exeter-based singer-songwriter writes the majority of material for the band, which also features multi-instrume...Read more >>
Chris Wood - SOLD OUT!
NOW SOLD OUT - APPLY TO BOX OFFICE FOR WAITING LIST
Singer of the Year and Best Album BBC R 2 Folk Awards 2009
Singer of the Year nominee and Best original song BBC R2 Folk Awards 2010
Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the un-official history ...Read more >>
Show of Hands - Standing Room Only Tour 2011
BBC award-winning, Albert Hall filling Show of Hands – England’s finest acoustic roots duo – make a stand this Spring showing just why they have been showered with accolades.
Acclaimed singer songwriter Steve Knightley and eye-defying multi instrumentalist Phil Beer – form...Read more >>
Kieran Goss
Long hailed as one of Ireland's leading songwriters and performers, Kieran Goss’s music has won him fans across the globe. In February 2010, Kieran’s new studio album, I’ll Be Seeing You, along with his considerable back catalogue, was released for the first time in the U.K. to hug...Read more >>
Mike Silver
Mike Silver - Singer, songwriter and performer
Songs from the soul –straight to the heart
It’s that moment when the song wings in under the radar and goes straight to your heart; that’s what you’ll remember most about Mike Silver – how the music born of his ...Read more >>
Martin Carthy & Chris Parkinson
Change of details for this date, Nick Harper will be back later in the year, instead we have this most amazing line-up for you.
The legendary Martin Carthy with Chris Parkinson, supported by Olly Knight and Marry Waterson
`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector a...Read more >>
ahab - SOLD OUT!!
ahab are a London-based, alt-country, singer songwriter collective who formed in July 2009 after being invited to play the annual ‘Fanfare’ festival in Nashville, Tennessee.
Following a successful week long residency tearing the roof off at Tootsies Orchid Lounge, they came back to Da...Read more >>
Reg Meuross & Tom Palmer - The Travelling Talesmen
Reg Meuross and Tom Palmer are two of the West Country's finest singer-songwriters. Performing as The Travelling Talesmen their contrasting styles weave together seamlessly to produce a evening full of songs - tales of love, legends, villainy and heroism, friendship and fools. On stage together thro...Read more >>
Megson SOLD OUT apply for returns
Combining the talents of northerners Stu Hanna and Debbie Hanna, the duo Megson are fast becoming hot property on the British folk and roots scene. Their four albums, On the Side, Smoke of Home, Take yourself a Wife and the new release The Longshot have chronicled that blossoming creative talent.
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St Agnes Fountain 10th Anniversary Tour
Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
St Agnes Fountain are about to embark on their 10th anniversary sell-out Christmas tour. With a brand new celebratory album.
Since their first get together, to record the eponymous St Agnes Fountain album in 2001, the quartet of founder, David Hughes; Fairport Conven...Read more >>
Martyn Joseph
Doors 7.15pm for 8pm start
Just when you think you’ve got a handle on singer songwriters, along comes Martyn Joseph to blow the myth away.....
On this tour showcasing material from his brand new studio album Lonely Like America, and in a year that marks 30 years in the business, Martyn p...Read more >>