Live music @ Ropery Hall
Sax on Sunday: Album Launch
22nd August 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy Tickets‘Fingers crossed for this going ahead, awaiting Govt. guidance. 'Time Stands Still' For over a decade folks have been asking Snake for an album of gentle, relaxing pieces. Music to chill out t...More info
Chris Helme
11th September 2020 8pm £12/£14 | Buy TicketsRising to fame in the 1990s as frontman of indie band The Seahorses singer-songwriter Chris Helme is now producing acclaimed folk-infused tracks as a solo artist, including a new album readying for re...More info
Snake Davis with Burden of Paradise
18th September 2020 8pm £15/17 | Buy TicketsONE of the great forces in 90s pop culture is bringing music to the people —saxophonist Snake Davis put the icing on the cake for Take That’s A Million Love Songs, M People’s Search For The Hero...More info
Clive Gregson: Farewell
26th September 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsA Mad Dog Folk presentation Born and raised in Manchester, Clive Gregson is an accomplished singer, musician and record producer of world-renown. Mary Chapin Carpenter named him as one of her favou...More info
Edwina Hayes
9th October 2020 8pm £12/£14 | Buy TicketsEdwina’s beautifully written songs, charming stage presence, and voice of an angel have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-Americana. She has opened numerous shows for Jool...More info
Lil’ Jimmy Reed & the ‘A’ Team
16th October 2020 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsFrom shot-gun shack and cotton-field to festival main stage, the prodigious talents of Lil’ Jimmy Reed have taken him a long way from the Mississippi river. One of the last surviving performers of c...More info
Luke Daniels & Rihab Azar
21st October 2020 8pm £12/£14 | Buy TicketsEast meets West as these two outstanding musicians from the UK and Syria perform their respective traditional music together. Luke Daniels is a multi- instrumentalist specialising in button accordion ...More info
John Reilly
23rd October 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsJohn Reilly concert is almost a spiritual event. It’s an evening where every emotion is touched and unleashed in a uniquely intimate atmosphere created by his intensely profound lyrics and stunning ...More info
CUA
29th October 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsSince issuing their superb Songs of The Hollow album in 2017, CUA have gone on to become a band that has gathered in more praise than most from all the best sections of the media. As a result, ther...More info
Steve Tilston: Semicentennial
13th November 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsOne of our most celebrated song-smiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music; the words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing could be no one else. Afte...More info
Sarah Gillespie Trio
14th November 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsCritically acclaimed, London-based songstress Sarah Gillespie is renowned for mixing blues, folk & jazz with her streetwise poetic lyrics. Her four albums received outstanding reviews from the UK ...More info
Hoth Brothers
20th November 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsEver since they released their outstanding Workin’ and Dreamin’ album over here, it seems like everyone is talking about the band. BBC Radio Scotland’s Iain Anderson Show made it Featured Alb...More info
Matthews’ Southern Comfort
22nd November 2020 7.30pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsMatthews’ Southern Comfort features Iain Matthews alongside renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer, BJ Baartmans, keyboardist Bart de Win fresh from several seasons with the Birds of Chicago, and ...More info
Gigspanner
28th November 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsIn the wake of his departure from Steeleye Span, legendary fiddle player Peter Knight has turned his full attention to his trio Gigspanner, and in the process established their reputation as one of th...More info
The Albion Christmas Band
11th December 2020 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsAn Albion Christmas, which has been touring for nearly 20 years, is widely regarded as the premier seasonal show and attracts sell-out audiences across the UK. Indeed many people say that their Ch...More info
Chantel McGregor
18th December 2020 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsA female guitar prodigy, at 14 years Chantel was told by major labels that she had a "great voice, but girls don't play guitar like that!" Wisely ignoring the comments, she enrolled at the Leeds Col...More info
Snake Davis and his Alligator Shoes
30th December 2020 8pm £19/£21 | Buy TicketsA big nine piece brassy saxy and soulful band playing music that grabs your heart and moves your feet. The original, first and never forgotten ‘60s soul band formed by Snake, with Dave Bowie and ...More info
Jaki Graham
16th January 2021 8pm £20/£22 | Buy TicketsJaki Graham is one of the most appealing Soul entertainers to emerge from the UK as a true pioneer having paved the way for many a black British female solo artist who followed. Jaki achieved internat...More info
Toyah Wilcox
19th February 2021 8pm £24/£26 | Buy TicketsACOUSTICA/ELECTRONICA UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL This is a unique chance to experience Toyah up close and personal with a show that has a lively cinematic sound using Toyah's vocals/ keyboards/ stand up...More info
Rachel McShane & The Cartographers
3rd April 2021 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsRachael McShane is a singer, cellist, fiddle and viola player based in the North East of England. An original member of folk big band Bellowhead, Rachael toured internationally with them as well as ...More info
Daphne’s Flight
14th May 2021 8pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsBack in 1995, five of the finest folk, blues and soul singers of their generation found themselves at the Cambridge Festival, decided to sing some songs together, magic happened and Daphne’s Flight ...More info
Nell Bryden
15th May 2021 8pm £20 | Buy TicketsWith this tour, New Yorker Nell has gone back to her roots and followed the traditional sonic footsteps of her idols Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and Carole King. Having recorded an album (to ta...More info
Peggy Seeger
16th May 2021 7.30pm £18 | Buy TicketsThe First Farewell Tour - Peggy Seeger with Calum MacColl Making a very welcome visit to Ropery Hall on her ‘First Farewell Tour’, the charismatic Peggy Seeger - singer, songwriter, f...More info
Mark Radcliffe – Loser?
1st July 2021 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsRadio 2 Folk Show, 6music and Glastonbury TV presenter Mark Radcliffe invites you to an intimate evening of his own songs and accompanying stories. Previous one-man shows have concentrated on meetings...More info
Judie Tzuke: Heart, Soul & Piano Tour
25th September 2021 8pm £25/£27 | Buy TicketsFresh from the highly acclaimed, sell-out Woman To Woman UK tour with fellow artists Beverley Craven and Julia Fordham, Judie Tzuke makes a welcome return to the stage. The Heart, Soul & Piano ...More info
Patti Boulaye: Aretha and Me
1st October 2021 8pm £18/£20 | Buy TicketsFollowing the last two years of sell-outs of her show “Billie & Me” the award-winning singer and musical theatre star returns to the stage, with her brand new one-woman show “Aretha and Me...More info
Chris While and Julie Matthews
3rd October 2021 7.30pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsA Mad Dog Folk presentation With more than 25 years of un-rivalled musical partnership and gathering numerous nominations, awards and critical acclaim along the way, highly respected by their fans ...More info
