To book tickets email folkatthebarlow@gmail.com ring/text 07427 613783 or use the onsite booking form
Folk at the Barlow is a not-for-profit organisation. Our aim is to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to enjoy and participate in folk music and song. Both the folk club and the Festival are run by unpaid volunteers. There is a singaround on the first Friday of each month and a concert on the third Friday of each month.
Concert tickets are £12.50 each. Children's tickets (16 and under) are free and students 21 and under are half price. The Barlow is a fabulous venue with a great stage which has state-of-the art sound and lighting. There is a separate bar serving local ale etc.
May Events
Fri 1 May 8pm Friday Singaround (Reading Room)
Tunes, songs, monolgues poems, jokes are all welcome We go round the rooom and there are always a variety of styles and genres. No actual charge but we have a whip-round to hopefully cover the cost of room hire. Please note that the March singaround will be on Fri 27 Feb as early March is pantomime season at the Barlow.
Third Friday Concerts 8pm, doors open 7;30pm
When & how much : Concerts are held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets are £12.50 each. Under 16s are free and students under 21 are £6.25
How to book: email folkatthebarlow@gmail.com to book direct (no booking fee) or use the form at the foot of this page.
Format : The usual format is a 40 minute support act of excellent quality followed by 2 x 45 minute spots by the main act - often of national acclaim. Between the two main act spots is an interval for drawing the raffle and visiting the bar. While the audience are checking in there is music from the House Band - you are welcome to bring an instrument and join in.
Fri 15 May 26 8pm Third Friday Concert The Wilderness Yet
Support Act : Ed McGurk
Tickets are £12.50 each. email folkatthebarlow@gmail.com
to book or use the form below
Returning to Folk at the Barlow by popular demand, The Wilderness Yet brings the acclaimed talents of folksinger Rosie Hodgson, traditional fiddler Rowan Piggott, and guitarist-flautist Philippe Barnes. Rosie has a beautifully sweet yet haunting voice and is renouned for the nature-related themes of her songs. Their instrumentation is a well-arranged combination of guitar, flute and fiddle and the scope of their songs varies from traditional numbers given a new lease of life to Rosie's self-penned original work. They also do some great a cappella three-part harmonies. From their eponymous debut The Wilderness Yet (2020), to their seasonal celebration Turn The Year Round (2021), to their last studio album, What Holds The World Together (2022), The Wilderness Yet have have consistently created genre-breaking music earning them hundreds of first class reviews from the global music press, airplay on the BBC & RTÉ, and performances at festivals from Cambridge to Folk by the Oak.
Supporting The Wilderness Yet will be Folk at the Barlow stalwart and festival organiser Ed McGurk. Ed has been deservedly well-received on the northern folk circuit over many decades. He has a clear and distinctive tenor voice accompanied by skilfull and tasteful guitar playing in a meoldic style. He also plays bousouki. His choice of songs is impeccable. I'm hoping to hear "To Althea from Prison" which he does so beautifully.
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