Live music @ Ropery Hall

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  Nick Harper – 58 Fordwych Rd

  17th October 2025 8pm £17.50/£19.50 | Buy Tickets

  Nick Harper announces new tour and album '58 Fordwych Rd.', out September 26th. It is nothing short of criminal, that Nick Harper is one the UK’s best kept musical secrets. Those who have witnes...More info

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  The Haar

  18th October 2025 8pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  A radically fresh, boundary-pushing take on traditional songs. 'We need more music like this; spontaneous, alive and affecting' - FRUK Anglo/Irish folk band The Haar brings the formidable singi...More info

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  Tom Robinson

  19th October 2025 8pm £25/£27 | Sold Out

  with Adam Phillips THEN & NOW Tom Robinson presents an evening of songs and stories from fifty years wandering the wilder shores of the Record Industry. Classic hits such as War Baby, Up Ag...More info

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  Iain Matthews with Andy Roberts

  25th October 2025 8pm £24/£26 | Buy Tickets

  After a 60-year career so far, including fronting Fairport Convention, Iain Matthews has just released a new solo album, How Much Is Enough?, his 53rd or 54th release. Released by Sunset Blvd. R...More info

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  The CABINET of Dr CALIGARI

  29th October 2025 7.30pm £10/£12 | Buy Tickets

  The silent masterpiece with a brand-new live score by Chris Green Made in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is the quintessential German Expression...More info

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  True Strays

  30th October 2025 8pm £15/£17* | Buy Tickets

  2023 saw the lifelong friends and Americana, Roots,  Rock’n’Roll duo from Bristol take their songs further afield than ever before. Armed with their crowd funded debut album Heart of the Mat...More info

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  Cua

  1st November 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Long established as one of the must-see Irish bands, Cua return for their sixth national UK tour having written and recorded a brand new album (their fifth), won acclaim much further afield and compl...More info

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  Brian Houston

  2nd November 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  In an almost Zelig-like career, the Belfast-born troubadour has jammed with the Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant at 'Whispering' Bob Harris’s birthday party (the veteran DJ Harris regards Houston a...More info

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  Knight & Spiers

  6th November 2025 8pm £20/£22 | Buy Tickets

  "An extraordinary collaboration between two musicians at the absolute top of their game. This is an adventure that takes in musical detours you'd be mad to ignore" Tradfolk "A beautiful snapshot o...More info

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  Chris Bannister

  8th November 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Chris Bannister is a singer-songwriter from North West England, his first album 'Only Human' was released in 1992 and got extensive airplay and was acclaimed by RPM magazine as one of the albums hera...More info

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  B.D. Lenz

  13th November 2025 8pm £15/£17* | Buy Tickets

  Even if you've never heard of American jazz guitarist B.D. Lenz it's very possible you've heard his music before - it's been featured on hundreds of TV shows around the globe. He's released thirteen ...More info

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  Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype 

  14th November 2025 7.30pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  An evening with John Cambridge hosted by Garry Burnett Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype traces the extraordinary and pivotal friendship between David Bowie and drummer John Cambridge, from the time...More info

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  Dan Sealey

  15th November 2025 8pm £10/£12 | Buy Tickets

  Dan started his career with folk rock band ‘Ocean Colour Scene’ and toured the world, played headline slots at major festivals for over a decade and co-founded the band Merrymouth with Simon Fowl...More info

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  Phil Beer

  22nd November 2025 8pm £19/£21 | Buy Tickets

  Phil Beer is the multi-instrumental half of the West Country’s award-winning acoustic duo, Show of Hands. With a professional career of over 36 years, Phil has a great deal of material to draw on f...More info

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  Martyn Joseph

  23rd November 2025 7.30pm £22/£24 | Sold Out

  Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer-songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge ...More info

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  Martin Harley

  29th November 2025 8pm £20/£22 | Buy Tickets

  Martin Harley is celebrated as “One of the UK’s finest contemporary roots musicians” (Guitarist Magazine) and a “slide guitar master” (Roots Magazine). Known for his spellbinding slide guit...More info

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  GreenMatthews: Midwinter Revels

  4th December 2025 7.30pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  This duo show is a celebration of Yuletide Past guaranteed to warm the cockles of the most Scrooge-like heart. Featuring Christmas carols, winter folk songs, toe-tapping tunes and a plethora of weird...More info

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  Folklincs Ceilidh

  5th December 2025 8pm £8/£4 | Buy Tickets

  Come along to the annual Folklincs festive pop-up ceilidh. Play, dance or just enjoy the music! ...More info

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  The Wilderness Yet

  12th December 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  This new trio combines the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditionalfiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes.With a voice that brings “a ruby-richness to lyric...More info

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  A Winter Union

  13th December 2025 8pm £18/£20 | Buy Tickets

  Jade Rhiannon – Vocals, Shruti Box. Katriona Gilmore – Vocals, Mandolin, Fiddle. Jamie Roberts – Vocals, Guitar. Hannah Sanders – Vocals, Guitar, Dulcimer. Ben Savage – Vocals, Dobro, Guita...More info

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  Janice Burns & Jon Doran

  18th December 2025 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Festive Tour Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music. Their songs tell vivid stories about the n...More info

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  Winter Wonderband

  19th December 2025 8pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  Winter Wonderband is a chamber folk quartet with Saul Rose on melodeon (Faustus, War Horse, Waterson Carthy) and Maclaine Colston on hammered dulcimer (Pressgang, Kings of Calicutt) who are joined by...More info

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  St Agnes Fountain

  20th December 2025 8pm £24/£26 | Buy Tickets

  Since first getting together in 2001, St Agnes Fountain have brought musical invention and laughter to the star-dust atmosphere of the Christmas season. Founder member David Hughes lef...More info

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  Showman and Coole

  22nd January 2026 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Super-Deluxe Fiddle, Banjo, and Song Through 25 years and thousands of shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have dev...More info

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  Snake Davis with Sumudu

  25th January 2026 4pm £17/£19 | Buy Tickets

  Raised in Scunthorpe, now London-based, Sumudu has been a natural performer from a young age, singing, playing guitar and piano and writing songs. She made her TV debut on BBC’s Pebble Mill at O...More info

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  Hedera

  29th January 2026 8pm £15/£17* | Buy Tickets

  Hedera is a chamber folk project from Bristol featuring Lulu Austin (violin), Maisie Brett (violin, viola), Tamsin Elliott (accordion, harp), Beth Roberts (double bass, violin) and Isis Wolf-Light (c...More info

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  Greg Coulson

  7th February 2026 8pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  Greg Coulson is a British musical powerhouse - an expressive singer-songwriter and dynamic performer who blends soul and classic rock with the groove of blues, funk and jazz. Known for his mesmerisin...More info

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  Foghorn Stringband

  12th February 2026 8pm £20/£22 | Buy Tickets

  Foghorn Stringband is the present-day gold standard for real-deal hard-hitting genuine old-time American string band music, with nine albums, thousands of shows, more than 15 years of touring under t...More info

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  Luke Daniels Band

  13th February 2026 8pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  The Luke Daniels Band is a bold force on today’s folk scene — a boundary-pushing collective led by visionary multi-instrumentalist, Luke Daniels. A former BBC Radio 2 Young Trad Award winner and ...More info

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  Yorkshire Gypsy Jazz Collective

  21st February 2026 8pm £17/£19 | Buy Tickets

  Presenting the Yorkshire Gypsy Jazz Collective! Featuring some of the region's hottest gypsy jazz and swing players, playing music inspired from legendry musicians Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapp...More info

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  Sax on Sunday – Feb 2026

  22nd February 2026 4pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  The Snake Davis and Gareth Moulton duo 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, j...More info

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  Blackbeard’s Tea Party

  14th March 2026 8pm £18/£20 | Buy Tickets

  Folk-rock rebels Blackbeard’s Tea Party celebrate 10 years of their seminal album ‘Reprobates’, a collection of stories about wrong’uns from history. They debuted material from the album duri...More info

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  Daoiri Farrell

  15th March 2026 7.30pm £18/£20 | Buy Tickets

  Dublin singer and bouzouki player Daoirí Farrell burst on to the international folk music scene with two prestigious BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2017 for Best Newcomer and Best Traditional Track, per...More info

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  Ashley Campbell

  20th March 2026 8pm £20/£22 | Buy Tickets

  ‘Goodnight Nashville Tour’  Ashley Campbell, daughter of country legend Glen Campbell began her career playing banjo and keyboard in her father's band on several world tours and has found su...More info

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  The Budapest Cafe Orchestra

  22nd March 2026 7.30pm £22/£24 | Buy Tickets

  The Budapest Café Orchestra  plays gypsy and  folk-flavoured music from all around the world delivering traditional Balkan, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian traditional gypsy and folk music...More info

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  The Rosie Hood Band

  10th April 2026 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  A Horizon Folk Award nominee, Rosie Hood is known for her powerful, clear vocals and captivating performances combining poetic writing with honest interpretations of traditional English songs. In her...More info

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  John Jones Trio

  17th April 2026 8pm £22/£24 | Buy Tickets

  John Jones is best known as the powerful and charismatic singer with Oysterband, veterans of the folk and roots scene since the 1980s. They started as The Whitstable Oyster Company Ceilidh Band, one ...More info

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  Snake Davis with Tom Darwood & Melissa Cook

  26th April 2026 7.30pm £16/£18 | Buy Tickets

  Sax On Sunday Snake welcomes back Tom and Melissa and he is looking forward to having to keep up with these very talented youngsters, playing more modern material than usual. ...More info

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  Burning Rope

  8th May 2026 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Burning Rope are a band born from the ashes of multi award winning blues rock band Catfish following the sad loss of their frontman and guitarist Matt Long to cancer in October.  The other membe...More info

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  Ruth Notman Trio

  9th May 2026 8pm £17.50/£19.50 | Buy Tickets

  Ruth Notman is a folk singer/songwriter from Nottingham who is, most notably, known for being one of the leading ‘nu-folk revivalists’ in the late 00s who bridged folk music into the 21st Century...More info

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  Hope & Social

  18th September 2026 8pm  £18/£20 | Buy Tickets

  Hope & Social and their blue-jacketed joyousness returns in 2026 with their trademark life affirming show to win over the hearts and minds of gig-goers across the land. Hope and Social gigs are a...More info

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  Gilmore and Roberts

  6th November 2026 8pm £15/£17 | Buy Tickets

  Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award- winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound. Nominated thr...More info

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  Jaywalkers

  21st November 2026 8pm £15/£17* | Buy Tickets

  As those who have been fortunate enough to catch them in full flight will testify, a Jaywalkers show is an exhilarating experience. UK-based they may be but many from the other side of the Atlantic h...More info