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Huge thanks to the superb Nick Harper for playing one of only a handful of solo shows this year as our Filey Folk Festival Loudhailer Seaside Special headliner. Nick played an absolute stormer to a full house, a blinding set, full of amazing guitar playing, unbelievable soaring vocals and incredible entertaining stories. We loved Riven's … Continue reading Nick Harper Loudhailer Headliner
Thanks to everyone who came to Loudhailer Seaside Special at Filey Folk Festival. What an awesome weekend! Filey is immersed in live music during the annual festival - our event at the Masonic Hall was just one of nine stages with over a hundred performances over the weekend. All the venues were buzzing, and there was … Continue reading Filey Folk Festival 2016
Another great night at Loudhailer Acoustic featured brand new premieres from Vivian, Catherine, Gifford and Graham Graham, four fantastic performers’ debuts, three guitars with an unusually large number of strings, three contrasting keyboards, a multi instrumental one man band, a five piece band of women and a superbly eclectic range of jazz, blues, world, folk, … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic November 2015
Rich and I are looking forward to playing at Cottingham Springboard again this year, and to watching as many acts as we can. We've got three slots over the weekend, and will be aiming to play a different themed set at each one - Sea Songs, Sci Fi & Fantasy and Love & Murder. Which … Continue reading Cottingham Springboard May 23 – 25 2014
What a cracking session and a great crowd it was last night at Loudhailer Acoustic. I opened up with one of Gifford Rolfe's songs. It's one of my favourites of Gifford's many superbly crafted songs. Called 'She Didn't Come Home', it's about the Yorkshire Ripper. I find it an extremely moving and unsettling song which … Continue reading Loudhailer Acoustic September 2013
Thanks to Viceversarobbi Fotografia who took these fab pictures of us playing at Yum! Festival of Food, Drink and Music earlier this month. You can see we had a great time. Thanks to Guy for inviting us to play, and putting on a smashing line up. Really enjoyed The Garnett Sisters and The Happy Endings and catching up with Tim O'Connor - … Continue reading Yum! Loudhailer Photos by ViceversaRobbi