George plays alongside Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (melodeon, anglo concertina, vocals) and Lewis Wood (violin, vocals) in English trad folk trio Granny’s Attic, who have honed their skills touring the UK and Europe since 2009. They are much loved by audiences up and down the country, with bookings everywhere from Cambridge Folk Festival to Cecil Sharp House, and live performances on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3.

Matt Quinn, originally from Brighton and now residing outside Sheffield, is a musician who has spent over half his life performing on the UK folk scene and further afield, from small folk clubs to Glastonbury & WOMAD, and abroad to places including The Netherlands and Iceland.

As a melodeon (diatonic button accordion) player he has been playing for ceilidhs for over 15 years and has developed a bouncy, driving style which brings a great lift to any ceilidh.

John Kirkpatrick has been dancing, singing, and playing his way around the English folk scene since he joined Hammersmith Morris Men in 1959 at the age of twelve. Displaying a rare skill on a variety of push-pull squeezeboxes – the melodeon, the button accordion, and the Anglo concertina – he has been fully professional since 1970, not only with vast amounts of solo appearances, but also in all kinds of duos, trios, and bands – including spells in Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Trans Europe Diatonique, in a long term duo with Roy Bailey, Band of Hope, lengthy stints with Richard Thompson’s Band, The Sultans of Squeeze, Brass Monkey, and Home Service. In the mid 1990s he led his own John Kirkpatrick Band.

Cohen burst onto the folk scene in his teens with the energetic and much-loved trio Granny’s Attic, who continue to enrapture audiences with their unique high-octane take on English traditional music. Alongside this, Cohen also tours with Angeline Morrison’s Sorrow Songs Band, with Reg Meuross’s Stolen from God and with The Demon Barbers, and has also enjoyed alongside one-off collaborations with such folk luminaries as John Spiers, John Kirkpatrick and Jim Moray.

NOTE This the Third Thursday of the month (someone put Christmas in near our normal day)

Vicki Swan & Jonny effortlessly blend traditional material with contemporary sounds. Their performances showcase new interpretations of old songs alongside original self penned tunes and new contemporary songs that are entirely at home in the tradition.

Be entranced by the haunting nyckelharpa, amazed at the cow horn (one of the worlds earliest communication devices) and meet some of the bagpipes that didn’t come from Scotland.

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With exceptional musicianship and boundless energy, Granny’s Attic are going from strength to strength. Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (melodeon, anglo concertina, vocals), George Sansome (guitar, vocals) and Lewis Wood (violin, vocals) have honed their skills touring the UK and Europe since 2009. They are much loved by audiences up and down the country, with bookings everywhere from Cambridge Folk Festival to Cecil Sharp House.

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This project began with a chance meeting at a folk session in 2018, which led to Will and Jenn’s music travelling around the world as a viral internet sensation. In their live shows they play a game of ‘musical cat and mouse’ improvising and responding to each other, weaving virtuosic performances that are unique and in the moment as only two musicians highly accomplished in their craft can produce.

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