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Getting the music underway at our March concert will be Paul Lloyd Nicholas. One of his songs, 'Hold The Line', is curated at the National Folk Museum of Wales.
There's a link to more info and tjckets for next Friday in the comments. Book in advance, folks, it really helps.
SELLING FAST!
It’s just two weeks until we welcome Sherburn Bartley Sanders to headline our St Patrick’s Special on Friday 20 March.
Here’s a video to show what you can expect.
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The concert takes place at Christ Church Downend on Friday 20 March, and tjckets are available via the website (link below) and from Downend Cards and Gifts (cash only).
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We're all set to celebrate the week of St Patrick’s Day with a distinctly Irish flavour as we welcome Sherburn Bartley Sanders to South Gloucestershire.
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Now THAT’S how you finish a set!
Here's a video of The Often Herd performing ‘Cool Summer Rain’.
We'd love it if you’d subscribe to our YouTube channel while you’re there. We’ve been hovering around 990 subscribers for a while and it would be great to hit the magical 1000. Thanks!
Huge thanks to Bristol’s best independent magazine for including this review of last Friday evening, when we welcomed The Often Herd with support from Green Tree. Click the link to read it on the @bristol247.bsky.social website.
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The wonderful Green Tree got proceedings underway last Friday, with a set of great songs, but it was this instrumental number that was without doubt the highlight of their set.
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Here’s a snippet of another video of The Often Herd from Friday evening. This new song is called ‘Erica’, and as usual, you can watch it in full over on our YouTube channel via the link in the comments. Please do subscribe while you’re there.
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‘Rosary Beads’ is “what would be the start of the second side” of The Often Herd’s debut album, ‘Where the Big Lamp Shines’, although they were quick to remind us not to turn over the CD!
You can watch it in full over on our YouTube channel (link in comments)... please subscribe while you're there!
Our review of our February concert, which featured The Often Herd, with support from Green Tree, is now up on the website. You can read it in full via the link below.
Thanks, as always, to @tallfolk46.bsky.social (words) and Barry Savell (photos).
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There will be a limited number of balcony seats available to pay for on the door for this evening's concert. Doors open at 7.00pm and we get underway at 7.45pm.
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All the seats downstairs seats have now been snapped up, but we’ve been able to open the balcony. It’s a great view and the sound is perfect up there too, so there are now 30 “balcony only” tckets available for tomorrow’s concert.
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There’s not just locally-brewed craft ales for sale on our bar, there are also West Country made sweet treats, courtesy of our link up with The Great Cake Company.
There are just a couple of tickets left for tomorrow’s concert, by the way…
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Would you like free tickets to our gigs?
We're looking for a couple of people to join our team, including helping to set-up/clear-down after concerts and someone to take control of the distribution of our posters and flyers.
Email info@downendfolkandroots.com or speak to any team member at a gig.
The beer’s been ordered!
As usual, we’ll have a well-stocked bar available at our almost-s0ld-0ut concert on Friday, including locally-brewed craft ales from our friends at Hop Union Brewery.
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It’s bluegrass all the way on Friday evening as we welcome the brilliant Green Tree to open for The Often Herd. Here’s a video of them in action to give you a taste of what to expect.
We’re fast-approaching a sell-out so don’t delay… BOOK NOW!
We're down to our last few tickets for Friday. This is not a drill.
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Have you seen this month’s Downend Voice? As usual, it’s packed full of local news, views and information… including this preview of our monthly concert, as we welcome The Often Herd with support from Green Tree on Friday 20 February.
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The concert takes place at Christ Church Downend, and tckets are available via the website and from Downend Cards and Gifts (cash only).
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Here’s a little snippet of what you can expect from The Often Herd when they visit us for our monthly concert on Friday 20 February.
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It’s bluegrass night in South Gloucestershire this month as highly-rated four-piece The Often Herd travel from Newcastle to headline our February concert.
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In case you missed it...
We are delighted to announce our programme for Summer 2026. As usual, we’re bringing you the very best from across the folk, roots, acoustic and bluegrass genres.
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We’re all set to announce our Summer 2026 Programme at 6.00pm tomorrow (Sunday).
In the meantime, any guesses? Or suggestions for the future?
Those on our mailing list found out yesterday, so those people are strictly forbidden from commenting!
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