Live music @ Ropery Hall
Talisk
23rd November 2019 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsIn their five years, Scottish firebrands Talisk have stacked up several major awards for their explosively energetic yet artfully woven sound, including 2018’s Belhaven Bursary for Innovation and ...More info
Budapest Café Orchestra
28th November 2019 7.30pm £15/£17 | Buy TicketsChristian Garrick & the Budapest Café Orchestra (10th Birthday Tour 2009-2019) The BCO were established by British composer and violinist Christian Garrick in 2009. Led by Christian they pla...More info
Cua
30th November 2019 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. Awarding the albu...More info
O’Hooley & Tidow WinterFolk
6th December 2019 8pm £14/£16 | Sold OutJoin “one of British Folk's mightiest combinations” (MOJO), O'Hooley & Tidow, for an evening of beautifully performed original, contemporary, and traditional winter songs from their critically...More info
Chantel McGregor
7th December 2019 8pm £15/£17 | 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
Belshazzar’s Feast
14th December 2019 8pm £14/£16 | Sold OutOn tour with their celebrated Christmas show that mixes traditional folk music, seasonal material, stirring in classical, pop and music hall, all topped off with audience participation and lashings of...More info
Snake Davis and his Alligator Shoes
28th December 2019 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
Lewis Hamilton Band
24th January 2020 8pm £13/£15 | Buy TicketsThe Lewis Hamilton Band performs mostly original Blues/Rock/Americana music, combining melodic and powerful vocals with a rock solid rhythm section and virtuoso heart-felt lead guitar. One of the UK...More info
The Seamus Egan Project
25th January 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsFew artists from traditional Irish music are more influential that Seamus Egan. A founding member of ground-breaking powerhouse band, Solas, the multi-instrumentalist has a reputation as one of the ...More info
Sax on Sunday: Helen Watson
26th January 2020 7.30pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsSnake and Helen met in the 80s. She was a star with a big recording contract, Snake played on her albums, did the TVs and joined her touring band, including memorable European shows sharing the bill w...More info
Paul McKenna Band
14th February 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsScotland’s Paul McKenna has long been ranked among its finest younger singers and songwriters, armed with a powerful yet intensely emotive voice and passionate social conscience, often expressed thr...More info
Chris Bannister
21st February 2020 8pm £13/£15 | Buy TicketsThe real spirit of the music of John Denver is captured beautifully by Chris Bannister. Chris has been touring with his solo show since 2010 and, having performed around the world, he is now interna...More info
Sax on Sunday: Simon Goulding
23rd February 2020 7.30pm £13/£15 | Buy TicketsBassist Simon Goulding is many folks’ favourite member of the Snake Davis Band. He is a true virtuoso, playing fast, high, intricate and harmonically advanced riffs, seemingly effortlessly, yet alwa...More info
Josie Duncan
29th February 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsJosie Duncan is a folk singer and songwriter from the Outer Hebrides. Steeped in Gaelic tradition from a young age and now deeply immersed in the vibrant Glasgow music scene, Josie’s singing is phos...More info
Ezio
6th March 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsRecorded in the company of house-trained rabbits on an industrial estate in Cambridge, Daylight Moon, Ezio’s ninth studio album is their most personal yet. The visceral honesty of frontman Ezio Lune...More info
Rowan Godel Trio
13th March 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsFollowing her appearance in Townsend Productions hugely successful touring folk opera “Rouse Ye Women”, written by folk musician, John Kirkpatrick and playwright, Neil Gore, former Oysterband and ...More info
SEED
22nd March 2020 7.30pm £12.50/£14.50 | Buy TicketsSEED Ensemble is a Mercury Award-nominated ten piece band led by alto saxophonist and composer Cassie Kinoshi. The band presents a stellar line-up featuring some of London’s most up-and-coming yo...More info
Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar
28th March 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsTwo time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar combine Russell’s powerful vocals and driving guitar style with the latter’s All-Ireland Championship winning fiddle playing...More info
Jaki Graham
3rd April 2020 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
Oyster 3
5th April 2020 7.30pm £13/£15 | Buy TicketsOn a rare tour, the three original members of Oysterband open their treasure-chest of music and stories of life on the road as one of the most-travelled bands in the folk world. Expect great acoust...More info
Benji Kirkpatrick and The Excess
9th April 2020 8pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsRoots musician Benji Kirkpatrick returns to Ropery Hall for the second time in little more than a month, this time with his band, The Excess. Benji has long been the guitar and bouzouki-playing powe...More info
Snake Davis: Classic Sax Solos
11th April 2020 8pm £16/£18 | Buy TicketsBehind every familiar name there are a group of brilliant musicians whose impeccable performance helped to make those familiar songs everlasting. Yet, it’s rare to know who those musicians are. One ...More info
Sax on Sunday: Album Launch
19th April 2020 7.30pm £14/£16 | Buy TicketsFor over a decade folks have been asking Snake for an album of gentle, relaxing pieces - music to chill out to, stretch to, fall asleep to. Frog on a Lily Pad is that album and tonight Snake plays p...More info
Rachel McShane & The Cartographers
25th April 2020 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
Nell Bryden
16th May 2020 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
17th May 2020 7.30pm £18The 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?
2nd July 2020 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
