Folk & Contemporary music

Across 2024, we welcome returning artists including Lindisfarne, as well as new performances from Budapest Cafe Orchestra, Seckou Keita Homeland Band and more.

Explore the programme and book tickets below.

Events

  1. The Stoller Hall

    Rickie Lee Jones

    Fri 30 August 2024, 7:30pm

    This show is now sold out! Check out other upcoming shows on our What's On page. Iconic American musician, storyteller,...

  2. The Stoller Hall

    Burbage Works – A Musical Journey

    Sat 14 September 2024, 7pm

    This unique brass band performance, combining live music and narrated audio-visual storytelling, documents the history of brass bands through the...

  3. Carole Nash Hall

    Stevens & Pound – Ascending Tour

    Sat 21 September 2024, 8pm

    BBC Radio 3’s award-winning Delia Stevens and three-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year nominee Will Pound, deliver...

  4. The Stoller Hall

    Making Tracks

    Thu 26 September 2024, 7:30pm

    Since 2019, Making Tracks has brought world class music from all corners of the globe to a network of leading...

  5. The Stoller Hall

    Ásgeir

    Sat 28 September 2024, 7:30pm

    Tickets on sale Friday 12 April 2024, 10am. At only 20 years of age, Ásgeir released the fastest selling debut album...

  6. Carole Nash Hall

    The Canny Band

    Sun 29 September 2024, 5pm

    Please note change of originally advertised time. Returning to The Stoller Hall for 2024, The Canny Band are Sam Mabbett,...

  7. The Stoller Hall

    Jesse Cook

    Sun 29 September 2024, 7:30pm

    Tickets on sale 10am Friday 10 May. Canadian nuevo-flamenco guitarist Jesse Cook and his band have announced multiple UK shows for...

  8. Carole Nash Hall

    Budapest Café Orchestra

    Fri 4 October 2024, 7:30pm

    In 2009 Christian Garrick established the refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired Budapest Café Orchestra.  The intention to present a broad...

  9. The Stoller Hall

    Tom Ball – Curtain Call

    Fri 1 November 2024, 7:30pm

    Tickets on sale from Friday 7 June, 10am Britain’s Got Talent alumni and finalist Tom Ball has announced three UK...

  10. The Stoller Hall

    Jessica Pratt

    Thu 7 November 2024, 7:30pm

    From the opening seconds of “Life Is,” it’s clear that Here in the Pitch is a very different kind of album from...

  11. The Stoller Hall

    Seckou Keita Homeland Band

    Fri 8 November 2024, 7:30pm

    “Seckou Keita can be classed alongside the great Toumani Diabate as one of the adventurous masters of the kora” -The...

  12. The Stoller Hall

    Under The Influence Presents: Sleeper (Unplugged)

    Sun 10 November 2024, 8pm

    Tickets on sale Friday 12 July at 10am. Join Britpop legends, Sleeper for a rare unplugged performance. An evening of...

  13. Carole Nash Hall

    TRIP

    Thu 14 November 2024, 7:30pm

    TRIP are a Glasgow based six-piece band whose music unites the kindred Celtic traditions of Scotland, Ireland, Northumbria and the...

  14. The Stoller Hall

    Nessi Gomes

    Fri 15 November 2024, 7:30pm

    Tickets on sale Friday 26 April, 10am. With 70 million combined streams and the award for Best Unsigned Female Artist...

  15. The Stoller Hall

    Kezia Gill

    Mon 25 November 2024, 7:30pm

    Join Kezia Gill on "The Story So Far" tour, an enchanting musical journey across the UK that begins in her...

  16. The Stoller Hall

    Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

    Wed 27 November 2024, 7:30pm

    Describing herself simply as a “modern English musician”, Eliza Carthy is one of the one of the most recognisable faces of the...

  17. Carole Nash Hall

    A Winter Union

    Thu 5 December 2024, 7:30pm

    Five leading lights of the British roots scene join forces to create a festive folk band like no other. Expect...

  18. The Stoller Hall

    Lindisfarne

    Fri 13 December 2024, 7:30pm

    Legendary 70’s Tyneside folk-rock pioneers Lindisfarne present a classic five-piece line-up of long-time members fronted by founder-member Rod Clements on...

  19. The Stoller Hall

    Keith James – Songs of Nick Drake

    Sat 22 February 2025, 5pm

    Nick Drake is one of the most revered and loved of all this country’s acoustic Singer-Songwriters. He has given us...

  20. The Stoller Hall

    Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle

    Sun 23 February 2025, 8pm

    Folk music’s legendary triumvirate of musical magpies Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle are on tour again in 2025,...

  21. The Stoller Hall

    GLOAMING by Scala & Kolacny Brothers

    Thu 20 March 2025, 7:30pm

    In recent years, recordings of Scala have been used repeatedly in various Hollywood productions.   Their unique sound always reinforces...

  22. The Stoller Hall

    Nick Cope

    Sat 22 March 2025, 4pm

    Part of Manchester Folk Festival 2025. Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for...

  23. The Stoller Hall

    The George Harrison Project

    Sat 5 April 2025, 7:30pm

    Enjoy the UK's leading live music tribute to George Harrison, performing his best-loved hits from The Beatles, his solo career,...