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Good things come in threes and tonight was no exception. This is the third time that Granny’s Attic – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, George Sansome and Lewis Wood – have visited Baston, the previous occasions being April 2019 and September 2021, so tonight’s May 2023 visit continues the once-every-two-years pattern. I knew I was in for yetContinue reading “Granny’s Attic – 25th May 2023”

Confession time. I hadn’t come across The Wilderness Yet yet so decided to sit down quietly in the garden and listen to their latest recording, What Hold The World Together, a collection of twelve tracks combining both a love of the natural world as well as exploring wider themes of what it is to beContinue reading “The Wilderness Yet – 27th April 2023”

It’s five-and-a-half years since we last saw FARA at Baston and the line-up has evolved. Jennifer Austin has flown the nest and keyboard player extraordinaire Rory Matheson has joined the three original band members, described on their website as ‘Orkney frontwomen’ – Jeana Leslie, Catriona Price and Kristan Harvey. Orkney frontwomen sounds like the perfectContinue reading “FARA – 23rd March 2023”

If a folk music version of the Mount Rushmore National Monument was ever to be carved out of the finest English granite, then the chances are that Phil Beer and Paul Downes would be two of the commemorated faces. Phil has performed at the Barn before, in September 2017, and also with Miranda Sykes overContinue reading “Phil Beer & Paul Downes – 23rd February 2023”