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SUMMARY:Music: Les Thomas (Australia) + Anya Pailthorpe
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed Australian songwriter Les Thomas brings his 2026 UK tour to Bristol for an intimate performance at the Hen & Chicken\, joined by the fabulous Anya Pailthorpe. \nBlending folk\, Americana and poetic storytelling\, Thomas writes songs filled with humanity\, memory and hard-won compassion. His music has been praised for its intelligence\, authenticity and emotional depth\, with performances that draw audiences in through powerful lyrics and understated delivery. \nTouring in support of his forthcoming album I Remember Everything\, this is a rare chance to catch one of Australia’s most compelling contemporary folk songwriters in an intimate setting. \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-les-thomas-australia-anya-pailthorpe/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Acoustic music,alt-country,Americana,Folk,Folk Music,Live music,Poetry,singer-songwriter,What's on Bristol
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SUMMARY:Music: Poor Old Dogs
DESCRIPTION:An original take on traditional folk music. \nPoor Old Dogs is a Bristol-based folk band known for blending traditional folk with skiffle\, punk\, and Caribbean influences. \nFormed in Bristol with a shared passion for honest\, rhythm-driven music\, the band’s style combines traditional folk with elements of skiffle\, punk\, ska\, calypso\, and dub\, creating a sound described as “tradition saddled with invention\, wild impudence and a substantial slice of audacity”. \nThe members are childhood friends who draw inspiration from both British and international folk traditions. \nExpect a night of riotous folk\,  beer-soaked mayhem and foot-stomping energy. \nPost-apocalyptic sea shanties and other original slants on traditional folk music from Jack and his crew.
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-poor-old-dogs/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Alt-Folk,Folk,Folk Music,Live music,What's on Bristol
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SUMMARY:Music: Sara Milonovich\, with Greg Anderson.
DESCRIPTION:Sara Milonovich brings us a fiddle-fueled\, heady harvest of heart-stopping original roots rock and alt-Americana with guitarist Greg Anderson. \nThey will be touring off of the back of a new album release in Autumn 2026. \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-sara-milonovich-with-greg-anderson/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:alt-country,Alt-Folk,Americana,Fiddle,Folk,Folk Music,Live music,What's on Bristol
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SUMMARY:Music: Richard Shindell
DESCRIPTION:Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant\, crossing thresholds\, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery\, busked in the streets of Paris\, opened for Joan Baez (who covered several of his songs)\, and collaborated with Grammy-winner Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan\, Levon Helm\, Elvis Costello). \n  \nOriginally from New York\, now living in Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures\, tell stories\, juxtapose ideas and images\, inhabit characters\, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires\, his most recent release\, Careless\, offered an ambitious\, luxurious\, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio\, allowing the time and latitude to explore\, experiment\, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect\, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.” \n  \nDuring the pandemic\, Shindell stayed in Argentina\, out on the wide open Pampa\, reading\, writing\, taking walks\, doing a little experimental recording\, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. \n  \nInnovative\, original and occasionally spiritual\, Shindell’s songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden\, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs\, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics\, prejudice\, war and religion\, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence\, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songs—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies. \n  \n“Occasionally an artist has a night that makes even skeptics think\, “O.K.\, maybe he is the best.” Richard Shindell achieved this.” — Ann Powers\, NY Times
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-richard-shindell/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:Americana,Folk,Folk Music,Live music
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SUMMARY:Muisc: Abigail Lapell
DESCRIPTION:“Abigail writes songs that stop you right in your tracks.”— Brooklyn Vegan \nToronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with a new album\, Shadow Child\, due for release 8th May\, 2026. \nOver the past six years and four spellbinding releases\, Lapell has garnered four Canadian Folk Music Awards and accrued a staggering 60 million streams across online platforms. She tours regularly across Canada\, the U.S. and Europe. \n \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/muisc-abigail-lappel/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:Alt-Folk,Americana,Folk,Folk Music,Live music,What's on Bristol
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SUMMARY:Music: Amy Speace
DESCRIPTION:Catch Amy Speace bringing her soulful tunes and stories live for a night you won’t forget! \nHeralded by Rolling Stone\, Billboard Magazine and The New York Times and featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition”\, Amy Speace is one of the leading voices of contemporary Folk and Americana songwriters. \nShe was discovered 2005 by Judy Collins\, who signed her to her record label and has recorded her songs. Amy is the 2020 winner of the AMA UK’s International Song of the Year. Her 2025 10th release\, a spare\, solo acoustic album recorded in three hours\, “The Blue Rock Session\,” recorded at Blue Rock Studio in Wimberley\, TX during a writer’s retreat\, is gaining the best critical raves of her career. “The American Dream\,” was released in 2024 and became the #1 record and the title track was named #1 song in the FAI Radio Charts for its first month out. \nA “writer’s writer\,” Amy’s debut collection of poetry\, The Cardinals\, will be published by Red Hen Press in September 2026. Her writing has been published by The New York Times\, American Songwriter\, Salon.com\, The Guardian\, No Depression\, Working Mother\, 2 River View and Eunonia. In 2025\, she published To The Performer: A Singer-Songwriter’s Handbook\, based on her 20 years of teaching performance.  In addition to her performance career\, she teaches English and Writing at Cumberland University in Lebanon\, TN. \n“Amy Speace is on a roll. Each new release has brought an expansion of her voice and her art\, and she has reached the level of absolute mastery. Folk music doesn’t get any better than this.”\n— Mary Gauthier \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-amy-speace/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Alt-Folk,American roots,Americana,Folk,Live music,singer-songwriter,What's on Bristol
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20270420T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20270420T223000
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SUMMARY:Music: Terra Spencer
DESCRIPTION:A solo performance from an award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter. \nBad ideas\, VCRs\, crumbling factories\, hairy dogs\, questionable tattoos…all are fair game for Nova Scotian funeral director-turned-songwriter Terra Spencer. And the songs are good ones\, judging from the accolades her four albums have received\, and from the caliber of her collaborators\, which include David Francey\, Dave Gunning\, and Matt Andersen. \nAlthough her butterscotch voice\, deft fingerstyle guitar\, and gospel-charged piano make her a formidable musician\, it’s her onstage ease and crackling wit that make each show feel like a knee-to-knee conversation in a room of 5 or 500. “The real deal.” – Ron Sexsmith
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-terra-spencer/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:Alt-Folk,contempory folk,Folk,indie-Folk,Live music,singer-songwriter,What's on Bristol
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