With their high energy approach to traditional American songs and dance music, Interstate Express shares their love of old stories and passion for the joy of a fiddle tune that drives like a Mercedes on the open road.
RITUAL: A Cabaret of Queer Journeys into Folklore. This is a brand new variety night following the Celtic Wheel of the Year. For our first outing, we greet you during Samhain.
ClerknWell ARTSlab hops over to Hackney's famous Chats Palace - just for one day - as these heroes of poetry, music and magic celebrate 50 years of Chats Palace Arts Centr
Queer Recipes Archive is an interactive workshop-performance that explores who defines the “traditional” version of a dish, and whose experiences its recipe leaves out. Free to attend and to participate!
AK Patterson is a London-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music blends gritty honesty with haunting beauty. Known for her unflinching exploration of dark and complex themes, Patterson crafts songs that find hope in the bleakest corners of human experience.
An evening of Latin Music to celebrate the women’s bands of the 1970s/80s. Parts of Chats50 celebrations
David Richard Fox hosts an afternoon with Alan Rossiter - Chats Palace’s first director back in the 70s (with contributions from the floor); talking us all through the amazing arts, artists and community events in the emergence of this amazing community arts centre.
Anna McLuckie is a Scottish singer, songwriter and Clàrsach player. Raised on classical and traditional music, Anna’s writing draws on her musical beginnings and also takes influence from her love of popular music and more experimental sounds.
Mike Viola. You probably already know him .. producer, songwriter, the kind of musician your favourite musicians quietly obsess over. Decades in, and somehow he keeps finding new generations to infect. Since 2019, he's been on a proper run .. The American Egypt, Godmuffin, Paul McCarthy .. all cut at his LA home studio, Barebones.
Not many bands carry the living DNA of their influences like Held By Trees. Their debut album Solace (April 2022) featured eight Talk Talk/Mark Hollis alumni plus veterans of Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Blur and Eric Bibb. It drew wide critical acclaim, support from Guy Garvey and Stuart Maconie on BBC 6 Music and play on Radio 3, and charted at #4 on the Official Indie Chart and #23 on Physical Sales. The fledgling project earned press and media support.
Join us for a deeply relaxing sound journey, using the vibrational power of gongs and instruments to leave you energised and rejuvenated.
Hackney Folk Club Presents Chris Wood "... at art school they said I had a remarkable eye for trivia, like it was a bad thing." Reflections on minor league football, empty nest syndrome, learning to swim, Cook-in Sauce and of course, the Gecko as a metaphor for contemporary society! Tom Robinson and Chris Difford are fans while Stick In The Wheel and The Unthanks look to him as an influence. In a world of soundbites and distractions Chris Wood is a truth seeker. His writing is permeated with love and wry intelligence, uplifting and challenging as he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after-anotherness of life. Winner of 6 BBC Folk Awards, he's played with The Royal Shakespeare Company and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg, Martin and Eliza Carthy. A wise and soulful craftsman, his concerts are a cliche free zone.