Past music events at the Folkhouse

The former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Jonny singer, Euros Childs, brings to the Bristol Folk House an idiosyncratic take on pop, folk and rock and roll. Alone at the piano for the very first time, he will be performing songs from his extensive back catalogue as well as new material. This is a rare opportunity to enjoy Euros’s talent in an intimate setting. Don’t miss it!

With support from Joyce the Librarian joycethelibrarian.bandcamp.com

Music legend and one of the Uk's finest live performers Rory McLeod is back on the road with a band of first class musicians including Columbian Harp player Diego Rojas and Jazz musicians Bob Morgan and Richard Sadler.

"Rory is a dynamic live performer - never still or silent, his shows radiate energy. All this dynamism does not obliterate his songs which are always thought-provoking and well crafted. Get hold of one of his albums and come and see one of the folk circuit's greatest live performers."
Venue magazine, Bristol

Australian Tour 2001:

 Photo © Casey Orr.

Chumbawamba return to Bristol to celebrate the release of their latest album ABCDEFG. The theme of the album is music - that volatile stuff which both the band and their audience have shared for as long as they can remember. Armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies, a bucketful of attitude, the band are touring to promote this gem.

Emily Teague does the one girl and her guitar thing better than most, managing to tiptoe the tricky tightrope between heartfelt and cloying with wide-eyed aplomb’
Venue

‘beautiful music’
Anna Felton (the do lectures)

‘There a millions of people who do this but not quite as well’
Duggup.com

‘Her lyrics, her melodies and her sophistication puts her head and shoulders above other local artists…’ Tobacco Factory

With a following to rival flamenco, the haunting melodies of Portuguese fado (traditional Portuguese folk-blues) hold listeners spellbound. Claudia Aurora is its powerful new voice. Her award-winning debut album Silencio (2010) wowed the critics as the first collection of original fado songs to be recorded in the UK. She grew up in a tiny village just outside Porto, yet only began to sing fado when she had settled in Bristol.

Claudia will be launching her debut album, "Silêncio" which had been re-recorded and licensed by the Prestigious World Village/Harmonia Mundi to a world distribution.

‘Boy, she has a voice, as elementally strong as the tides of which she sings, and as imbued with the ability to induce calm and awe.’ Venue Magazine

‘Claudia Aurora enraptures with the spine-tingling emotion of her powerful, mournful fado torch songs.’ St George’s Bristol

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