Tim Keegan And The Gentle Men – 23 July 2022
Something a bit different for you this time – Tim Keegan with a band of some of the South Coast’s finest musicians bringing you an evening of laid-back top-class music. They will be performing original songs from Tim’s 30 years as a performing songwriter alongside covers of songs they love – classic country, early rock ‘n roll, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Buddy Holly, John Hartford, Destiny’s Child… the list goes on. The band is:
- Tim Keegan (vocals, guitar) Departure Lounge, Robyn Hitchcock, Kid Loco, Josh Rouse, Tahiti 80 and The Blue Aeroplanes
- Simon Edwards (bass, mandolin) Fairground Attraction plus Talk Talk, Billy Bragg and Beth Gibbons (Portishead) among many others
- Ben Nicholls (double bass, banjo, lap steel guitar) Ben plays with Seth Lakeman, Nadine Shah and Sam Sweeney, among others
- Jimmy Count (drums, vocals, and pretty every other instrument going)
- Bernd Rest (guitar, vocals) Rosie Brown
The Paul McKenna Band – 17 September 2022
“The best folk band to have come out of Scotland in the last twenty years” New York Times – “The best band of their generation” (The Living Tradition) – “A band with the potential to dominate the Scottish/Irish traditional scene for the next twenty years” (Fatea Magazine)
Scotland’s Paul McKenna has long been ranked among our finest younger singers and songwriters, armed with a powerful yet intensely emotive voice and passionate social conscience, often expressed through his songs, a combination that’s brought frequent comparisons to the great Dick Gaughan.Paul was a featured artist at the world renowned Transatlantic Sessions in 2019. Alongside Cara Dillon, Tim O’Brien, Molly Tuttle and the multi talented house band he performed a string of shows across the UK. He and his band – comprising Robbie Greig (fiddle), Conal McDonagh (pipes/whistles), Conor Markey (banjo/bouzouki/guitars) and Ewan Baird (percussion) – draw on both Scottish and Irish roots, in a dynamic, full-bodied array of original and traditional material, along with songs by like-minded authors.