HepworthLIVE new season starts September 2025. We will continue to bring you the best in live folk and roots music to Hepworth Village Hall.
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Upcoming Shows
Saturday 25th October 2025
Mark Harrison Band
Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
MARK HARRISON BAND
Nobody writes songs like MARK HARRISON.
Constantly touring and multi-awards-nominated, Mark Harrison has a reputation for being unlike anyone else out there. Described at BBC Radio 2 as an artist who ‘makes you think afresh’, and by countless audience members and reviewers as ‘uplifting and ‘inspirational’, his highly individual music takes him to some of the top venues and festivals in the UK, attracting acclaim wherever he goes.
Mark writes songs about things most people live and think about but don’t hear songs about, and songs that tell stories they haven’t heard before. Proper songs, with catchy melodies and memorable lyrics that you can hear.
Mark’s live shows are well-known not only for the memorable songs but also for his introductions to them, delivered in a manner often described as ‘wry’ and ‘dry’.
Mark has been frequently heard on BBC Radio 2, including on its Pick of the Week show on a playlist containing many of the world’s top pop artists.
The extraordinary MARK HARRISON BAND has a unique sound and style that is very much their own genre, and incorporates elements of classic roots, rock, folk and blues. They have been compared to classic artists of the golden era such as The Band and Little Feat. It’s music to make you smile, think and move.
The band features the amazing musicianship of Charles Benfield (double bass/harmonies) and Ben Welburn (drums/percussion), who form a unique and much-admired rhythm section.
Mark has released eight albums, which have been unanimously acclaimed across a wide range of areas of the music world, receiving a very great deal of airplay and highly enthusiastic reviews in the UK, Europe and the US.
With his outstanding tunes, wry observations, striking rhythms and stunning guitar playing, Mark Harrison is widely considered one of the most original and interesting artists around. You won’t hear anything else quite like him.
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Everybody should be talking about Mark Harrison (Classic Rock magazine)
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He takes very real things that happen in life and makes you think afresh about them (Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2)
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a bit different and kinda groovy too (Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 2)
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a fantastic musician, he's got a great voice and what a songwriter! What a glorious sound he makes (Frank Hennessey, BBC Radio)
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great stage presence … innovative…… if Top Of The Pops was still around, he might well be on it’ (Jazz FM)
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perhaps all you need is empathy for other people’s lives. Mark has that (Folking)
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charismatic live performances (RnR magazine)
Saturday 29th November 2025
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
Celebrating their 30th anniversary in partnership this year, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan are one of the most beloved and enduring acts in British folk. Twice Winners of Best Duo at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, they combine stunning vocals and stellar instrumentation on fiddle, guitar and bouzouki with Nancy's insightful and poetic lyrics. The couple have brought joy, inspiration and some memorably energetic arrangements to global audiences since their chance meeting in 1995.
From traditional ballads and fiery Northumbrian fiddle tunes, this set will cover the great dynamic and thematic range for which Nancy and James are so admired.
Saturday 31st January 2026
Tim Edey
Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
We are absolutely delighted to announce Tim Edey as the final piece of the jigsaw in this years HepworthLIVE programme. To describe Tim as a musical genius is not overstating it and we can guarantee you an absolutely joyous evening of musical virtuosity.
Multiple award-winning Tim Edey talents were recognised as: BBC Musician of the year BBC ALBA/Scotland Best Traditional musician 2020, BBC Radio Two Musician of the year 2012 (BBC R2 FOLK AWARDS)
Tim tours the world and records with major names in Celtic/Contemporary roots music, including; The Chieftains, Christy Moore, Sharon Shannon, Ross Ainslie, Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy, Altan, Capercaillie, Brendan Power, Michael McGoldrick, Seamus Begley, Dougie Maclean, Kevin Burke, Liam O'Maonlai, The Barra MacNeills, JP Cormier, Shaun Davey, Session A9, Lunasa, Vinnie Kilduff , Mary Black, Session A9, Julie Fowlis, Frankie Gavin, to name but a few...
After two decades of hard work, Tim is now a name on the global stage in his own right. He is rated by many to be one of the world's finest melodeon and guitar players in the folk & contemporary scene today!
Originally from Broadstairs in Kent and of Irish descent. Tim honed his style learning from his father Richard, himself a fine guitarist, and listening to Ed Boyd, Steve Cooney and Django Reinhardt. He has lived in Ireland and now resides in Perthshire, Scotland, where he is based with his family and from where he regularly tours all over the world.
Tim's live solo shows are a stunning mix of world music, inspired instrumental virtuosity and passion, with a strong Celtic theme, and above all, a highly entertaining night of musical genius, all held together by his dynamic and infectious personality.
"My favourite guitarist in the whole world" Natalie MacMaster "Stunning!" Aled Jones
"A ferocious passion and a beautiful tenderness, sensitivity, respect, understanding & love perpetually shines out through the music of virtuoso musician Tim Edey.” Sharon Shannon
“Tim Edey plays a host of different instruments to a standard us mere mortals can only dream of. Listen and weep”- Jim Byrne, The Living Tradition
Saturday 28th February 2026
Angie Palmer Band
Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
A long overdue return for the brilliant Angie Palmer who last played Hepworth just over 10 years ago.
Angie’s strong, effortless singing and incredible acoustic guitar playing is backed by her band of fabulous musicians;
Billy Buckley on guitars, Paul Mason on Bass and Tim Franks on drums.
Described by Bob Harris as “one of Britain’s greatest singer-songwriters”, Angie’s music has been dubbed ‘English Americana’ and whilst she has been compared to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, she is actually like no-one else. When you listen to the depth, scope and sensitivity of her songs, you immediately recognize someone whose singular talent has been nurtured by her own extraordinary travelling life.
Her music ranges from country-rock to bluegrass and rockabilly to simple acoustic country ballads, with a few surprise cover versions thrown into the mix.
Angie’s uncompromising genre-crossing mix of country, blues, rock and folk, served up with equal measures of aggression and tenderness has led the British press to call her the “British Lucinda Williams” and while this is not too far from the mark Angie is very much an original artist pursuing her own musical and lyrical path.
Thursday 26th March 2026
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker
& John Doyle
Doors 7:00 Start 7:30pm
"A sparklingly tight programme... an excellent sound balance... never tiresome"
The Scotsman
"It takes a lifetime of playing to sound as effortless as these guys"
The Herald
"What an absolute pleasure to share in their warmth, intimacy and richly talented company"
Folking.com
Key members of celebrated folk collective Transatlantic Sessions and legends in their own right, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle are on the road again in 2026, bringing you their own blend of top-class folk songs, tunes and charming bonhomie.
All three musicians have won global acclaim: Mike McGoldrick is a master of flutes, whistles and Uillean pipes, a renowned composer and current member of Capercaillie. Formerly of Battlefield Band, John McCusker’s unique fiddle playing has earned him a worldwide reputation as one of the most gifted and versatile musicians of any genre. Guitarist and singer-songwriter John Doyle is an Irish music linchpin and founding member of acclaimed group Solas. They have shared stages and recording studios with everyone from Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler to Paul Weller, Joan Baez and Linda Thompson. With their vast repertoire Mike, John & John are a rare musical treat you’ll savour for a very long time.
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Saturday 18th April 2026
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman have long established themselves
as one of British folk music’s most rewardingly enduring partnerships.
Duos come and duos go... and some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something totally original, captivating and award-winning.
Bonded by an unseen alchemy, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman have entwined their professional and personal relationship into an enviable class act of imaginative songwriting and musicianship.
The Dartmoor-based husband and wife have twice won the coveted 'Best Duo' title at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, as well as ‘Best Duo’ at the Folking.com awards and Spiral Earth awards. They consistently deliver assured, distinctive performances whether live or recorded. In three decades of performance they have never been trapped in a groove – always bold and innovative, mixing traditional song arrangements with their self-penned material which reels from the bitter to the sweet, the wry to the sad, the political to the passive.
“Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman sit at the high table of contemporary song-writing and musicianship”. - FATEA magazine -
'The couple’s intimacy + strength of passion on stage have won them many fans and an enviable reputation as ‘Songwriters par excellence’ - froots mag - Their greatly varied original songs cover such subjects as tightrope walking, wicked mermaids, Norwegian legends, and a now thanks to Kathryn a somewhat lonely whale.
“ * * * * * - Contemporary protest meets trad vignettes - a fine feather for the cap of the Lakeman musical dynasty”. - Daily Mirror -
With a story that includes 30 years of music making with the likes of Seth Lakeman, Cara Dillon, Levellers, Fotheringay, Kate Rusby and Show of Hands, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman have consolidated themselves as pillars of modern British folk.
'An absolute masterclass in how to do it right' - Festivalsforall.com -