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
Sunday 21st September 2025
Stephen Fearing and The Sentimentals
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Doors 7:30 Start 8:00pm
Our favourite Canadian singer songwriter back at Hepworth again with Danish backing group The Sentimentals.
Revered Canadian songwriter Stephen Fearing and award-winning Scandinavian indie-folk band The Sentimentals share a deep passion for crafting beautiful melodies and dynamic musical interplay that transfixes audiences. United by a shared admiration for classic Tin Pan Alley songwriting, deeply emotive lyrics and a flair for innovation, their collaboration produces a style that is both authentic and distinctly original.
Since joining forces in 2018, Fearing and The Sentimentals have lit up stages across Europe and Canada with annual performances that leave a lasting impression. Their chemistry comes to life on Fearing’s 2022 album Vejpoesi (Danish for "Road Poems"), where The Sentimentals’ graceful accompaniment interlaces seamlessly with Fearing’s haunting lyrics and melodies. Recorded over three days in Maskinhallen, a theater in Frederikshavn, Denmark, the sessions highlight The Sentimentals’ rare ability to reinterpret and revitalize Fearing’s seasoned material—delivering a sound that is both transformative and fresh. Following a successful Spring tour of Candada, this Autumn they are touring the UK to promote Stephen's excellent new album The Empathist.
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.
January 2026
To be confirmed
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.
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 -