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Eden Valley Touring Network presents Friday Music Nights

Eden Valley Touring Network presents Friday Music Nights at the Old Courthouse, Shap.

Event Date

14 February 2025

This event will also happen on the following dates:

Friday 14 Feb 2025
Friday 14 Mar 2025
Friday 28 Mar 2025

Description

Performances start at 7.30pm. Admission £8. Short interval. Tea/Coffee or BYOB. Booking via website.

14th February 2025 - Carolyn Francis, Briar and Bramble

Renowned Lakeland Fiddler Carolyn Francis has made a career of creating a living, inclusive, culture of traditional music rooted in Cumbria, in particular with Striding Edge Ceilidh band and The Lakeland Fiddlers. With this solo project she uses a foot pedal to loop and layer these tunes, enhanced with occasional lyrics.

Contemporary folk duo Briar and Bramble comprises Mike Turnbull and Kate Hewson. Mike is a multi-instrumentalist has the knack for writing well crafted songs with a story to tell. With his trademark tenor guitar, he takes his influences from his home region of the Lakes as well as further afield. Together with Kate on mandolin and Shruti box, the Briar & Bramble sound and style is original modern folk ranging from melodic ballads to more upbeat, singalong, festival style pleasers.

14th March 2025 John Chambers, Tailgate Buskers

John Chambers; poet, experimental musician and singer songwriter John writes about the relationships between ourselves, time and place with a niche interest in public transport.

Tailgate Buskers: Fantastic fiddle harmonies guaranteed. Originally formed to busk as a fun fundraiser one Autumn sat on the boot of a car in Armathwaite, Tailgate Buskers loved playing together so much that they just kept at it and even gained some new members. Sometimes playing songs and tunes as an acoustic duo (fiddle/guitar/vocals), often performing and recording as a folk trio (fiddle/guitar, tin whistle/vocals), they perform as a four or five piece band, sometimes for ceilidhs. As they say “ .....any excuse to play and share the music that we love!”

28th March Mark ‘Stivvy’ Stephenson, The Rhubarb Thieves

Mark Stephenson HE WRITES STUFF......HE PLAYS IT.

The Rhubarb Thieves are a folk trio featuring keyboards, violin, mandolin and guitar. They perform a mixture of traditional songs and tunes, newer pieces in the folk idiom, and now also play a couple of self-penned songs.