Cecil Sharp House, London, announce another peerless and varied season of folk gigs including National Youth Folk Ensemble, Emily Portman & Rob Harbron, Mairearad Green & Anna Massie, a special tribute to Alan James featuring 9Bach, John Metcalfe and elements of Imagined Village and more.
EFDSS is delighted to announce that Eliza Carthy MBE has agreed to become its next President. Eliza takes over the honorary post from Shirley Collins. Angeline Morrison and Arti Prashar have also been appointed as board members.
Cecil Sharp House has plenty going on this Christmas season including Belshazzar’s Feast, Celtic Christmas with Calan, A Winter Union, Freedom to Roam, The Young’uns, a New Year’s Eve Ceilidh and more.
Cecil Sharp House are once again looking forward to hosting music-loving audiences in a packed Autumn/winter season including John McCusker, Thea Gilmore, Heidi Talbot & Boo Hewerdine, Kitty MacFarlane, Leveret, Sam Sweeney, The Rheingans Sisters, Spiers & Boden, LAU and lots more.
Watch Sam Sweeney and his band (the guitars of Jack Rutter and Louis Campbell and the double bass of Ben Nicholls) performing ‘Unearth Repeat’, live at Cecil Sharp House.
In the latest ‘In the Archives with…’ video series from EFDSS, Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter, from Stick in the Wheel, go crate-digging in the Cecil Sharp House archives.
For ninety years, English folk music and dance have had an official home in a quiet corner of central London. Just off a (usually) very busy high street, hidden from view in a pretty walled garden is Cecil Sharp House.
With a repertoire ranging from raunchy to raw, wistful to utterly tragic; the show is a triumph from start to finish. Understandably, the applause continues long after Ye Vagabonds have taken their leave.
As two fiddle players work their way through a traditional air in the downstairs bar of Cecil Sharp House, former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden (solo) prepares to take the stage in the main hall for an epic set of post-apocalyptic prog-folk.
Bella Hardy showed her folk roots were well-watered during her performance at Cecil Sharp House as part of her Hey Sammy acoustic tour. A broad and diverse set blended both her traditional and contemporary influences. A wonderful concert.
This month at Cecil Sharp House there is a very special Tribute Concert to John Renbourn that will include Ben Watt and Bernard Butler, Clive Carroll, Dariush Kanani, Graham Coxon, Jacqui McShee, Josienne Clark and Ben Walker, Ralph McTell, Rob Armstrong, Wizz Jones and more.
Watch ‘Sweet Liberties’ Cecil Sharp House concert in full. Recorded last November by London Folk Music featuring Martyn Joseph, Nancy Kerr, Sam Carter, Maz O’Connor, Pasty Reid and Nick Cooke.
