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SUMMARY:Music:  Marginal Gains and special guest DJ Bernie
DESCRIPTION:Marginal Gain returns playing a selection of 90s and early 00s rock and indie\, including Ash\, Arctic Monkey’s\, Blur\, Green Day\, Nirvana\, Oasis\, Pulp\, Rage Against the Machine\, Radiohead Red Hot Chilli Peppers\, The Killers\, and many more.
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-marginal-gains-and-special-guest-dj-bernie/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:00s,90s,Band,indi-rock,Live music
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SUMMARY:Music: The Anna Howie Band - Good For Roses Tour
DESCRIPTION:Anna will be playing with her wonderful band\, Andy Evans- guitar\, Roger Nunn – drums\, John Brooker – Bass \nAnna worked as a session singer and backing vocalist for 25 years during which time she gigged across Europe and did live Radio 2 sessions with Brian May.  Anna’s first solo EP ‘An Idiots Guide to Love’ recorded in 2019 in Nashville and produced by Grammy Award Winner Bob Britt went straight to Number 5 in the UK country charts. \nIn March 2022 Anna released her debut album ‘The Friday Night Club’ named after a Facebook Live Stream she started from her front room during lockdown which went on to have nearly 2 million views. \nThe album produced by Lukas Drinkwater at Polyphonic Studios is made up of 11 self-penned songs telling tales of lockdown loneliness and human triumph described as  ‘Americana with a very British twist ‘ The Friday Night Club’  was released across all platforms on the 25th March on the Absolute Label ( Sony/Universal ) \n‘Angels Among Us’ the first single released from the album became song of the week across BBC the South with ’ The Friday Night Club ‘ itself becoming one of Maverick Magazines Top Picks \nIn 2023  Anna released 2 singles – ‘How to Stop Crying’ and ‘Searching for Christmas’ \nAnna was one of Black Deer Festivals Emerging Artists for 2023 and was a Pilton Stage Finalist at Glastonbury \n‘Good for Roses’ was recorded with Anna’s band at Real World Studios\, the home of Peter Gabriel. produced by Kris Wilkinson Hughes it is also to be released on the Absolute Label ( Sony/Universal).  Out on April 18th 2025\, It is a collection of songs about searching for the beauty in the everyday\, the light in the dark\, the roses in the shit !. \nwww.annahowiemusic.com \n \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-the-anna-howie-band-good-for-roses-tour/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:Acoustic music,alt-country,Alt-Folk,American roots,Americana,Live music
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250508T223000
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SUMMARY:Jazz: Dan Newberry Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Saxophonist Dan Newberry holds a Masters from the Royal Welsh College and is one of the brightest rising stars of the scene. He studied with sax great Iain Ballamy from an early age\, and has acquired an appreciation of all styles of jazz sax\, able to switch from 30s swing to the most contemporary sounds in an instant. \nTom Berge is a jazz pianist and music teacher with a 1st Class Honours (BA) in Jazz Piano (Leeds College of Music) and an MA in Composition for Film and TV (Bristol University). He plays regularly with his own trio across the UK and has tutored at the Yamaha Jazz School in Falmouth and at the Dordogne Jazz Summer School. \nBassist Henrik Jensen moved from Denmark to London in 1997 and is a graduate of the Royal Academy. He has toured the world from Tokyo to Moscow with various modern jazz projects and also as part of the band for close harmony group The Puppini Sisters. Henrik has previously appeared at the club as band leader with his quartet Followed By Thirteen \nDrummer Scott Hammond has spent years touring the world with Jethro Tull\, but between trips he is heard on Bristol’s jazz scene with the Hopkins Hammond Organ Trio and 1970s Herbie Hancock/Weather Report influenced funk project Jingu Bang.
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/jazz-dan-newberry-quartet/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Live music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250509T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250509T230000
DTSTAMP:20260624T143728
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SUMMARY:Music: The Deep Dark Woods (solo)
DESCRIPTION:One might be tempted to think of the Deep Dark Woods as a band steeped in capital-T tradition\, and that may be true\, but now nearly two decades into their life as one of Canada’s finest folk-roots ensembles\, that tradition is one of their own invention. The voice of founding member Ryan Boldt sits at the forefront of the band\, and it doesn’t take long to reveal that he is a master of subtlety and shading\, working in the lineage of iconic singers like Bob Dylan\, Bert Jansch\, Rick Danko\, and Jason Molina. Boldt\, a relentless lifelong listener of music\, says “It’s all I do. When I’m not playing music\, I’m listening to it\, trying to find songs that make me feel an aching pain in my chest.” Accordingly\, his singing is full of highly emotive nuance and an elegant\, relaxed precision that makes it seem downright effortless\, a perfect vehicle for the band’s particular brand of updated folk music. Fellow travellers like keyboard whiz Geoff Hilhorst\, veteran drummer Mike Silverman\, and Evan Cheadle round out the Deep Dark Woods unit\, and they are often assisted by like-minded collaborators such as singer-songwriter Ellen Froese\, Erik Nielsen\, Leon Power\, and the acclaimed duo Kacy & Clayton. This crew creates a powerful combination and has amassed a pile of celebrated albums\, EPs\, and a host of nominations from music awards outfits from across the country. Together they recall classic units like The Band\, mid-period Wilco\, and American Beauty-era Grateful Dead\, but also legendary late ’60s UK groups like Fairport Convention\, Pentangle\, and Steeleye Span. \nWhich brings us to the Deep Dark Woods’ latest album\, Broadside Ballads\, Vol.III. Intertwined amongst their albums of original material\, Deep Dark Woods has been steadily building up a series of releases called Broadside Ballads\, focusing on traditional Irish\, English\, and Scottish folk songs. It’s a fitting tribute to the music that influenced Boldt’s writing and singing since first forming the band\, and like their forebears\, Deep Dark Woods aims to take their own experiences of traditional music and create something new and vital. The songs in this collection mine some of the more brutal depths of human experience\, touching on broken hearts\, love\, murder\, and the act of leaving. Boldt notes that “there are not too many jolly songs in there”\, but the album is not a dour affair\, instead benefiting from tasteful\, unstated arrangements and an organic\, no-frills recording sound. The songs on Vol.III generously display The Deep Dark Woods’ deep-seated links to the past while still sounding just like themselves. \nA brand new album of original music recorded by David Parry (Loving\, Alice Phoebe Lou) will be released on Victory Pool throughout 2025 complimented by tours of the UK\, Canada\, and Europe. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-the-deep-dark-woods-solo/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:alt-country,Americana,Folk Music,Live music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250510T230000
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SUMMARY:Music: Firestations
DESCRIPTION:Here Comes Midnight Presents Firestations\nWe’re excited to be back with one of our favourite bands\, Firestations! Playing a beautiful stripped-back show from their new album and beyond\, this will be warm and layered treat. \nIn the Chicken Shed with support from Melinda Bronstein and Andy Skellam.\n————-\nMany White Horses is the brand-new album by eclectic London art-pop ensemble Firestations. Set for release on Lost Map Records on limited-edition 12” vinyl and via digital services on April 25\, 2025\, the album is a collection of sea-soaked acoustic songs and instrumentals\, interwoven with field recordings and lyrics drawn from the immediate surroundings of a sailing expedition\, all brought together with warm\, textured production. \nFirestations are Mike Cranny\, Laura Copsey\, Martin Thompson (aka Bit Cloudy)\, Tom Hargreaves and Neil Walsh. Their music spans genres from shoegaze to alt-pop and harmony-driven psychedelia. Their second album and their debut for Lost Map\, The Year Dot\, released in 2018\, was followed by sonic collage album Dream Home in 2020 and the Automatic Tendencies EP project in 2020-21. The latter took the form of three EPs over a six-month period\, each including alternative “sunken” versions by the band as well as covers and remixes of the band’s tracks by other artists. Thick Terrain\, released in 2023\, saw Firestations return to album format with ten tracks ranging from hypnotic sci-fi landscapes to addictive dream-pop jangles\, exploring ideas around identity\, conflict\, progress and sanity.\n———–\nMelinda Bronstein – Melinda is a multi-instrumentalist\, producer\, photographer and filmmaker currently living in Margate. She started as keyboardist and backing singer for Americana-tinged Absentee\, before shifting to the drums for grungy Wet Paint\, indie-rockers Singing Adams and many other bands in between including\, in recent years\, as percussionist and backing singer with The Leaf Library. \nHer band Sea Glass\, a collaboration with Matt from The Leaf Library\, was her first outing as the main vocalist and songwriter\, a situation that has opened the door to an outpouring of solo recordings. In Reverse was recorded at home between March 2020 and February 2021\, a year of massive shifts\, it is haunted by a very human introspection\, an unease manifesting in buried loops\, vocal drones and cyclical lyrics. \nPurely intuitive in her approach\, Melinda fully immersed herself in using improvisation to explore the voice as multi-faceted instrument\, the poised hum of experimentation clear throughout the album. As she says\, “I approach making music without any expectation\, plan or idea of what will come out. The un-knowing is the exciting part which allows me to surprise myself. I follow a thread and keep weaving. Once a piece is finished I listen back as though it did not come from me” – a reminder that expression will find its way out by any means. \nIn Reverse is the eleventh release on The Leaf Library’s Objects Forever label\, and is the first joint release with Detroit label Metaphysical Powers run by artist\, writer and producer Kristen Gallerneaux and writer Bernie Brooks.\n————————–\nAndy Skellam – Andy’s music has been said to play like a surreal dreamscape\, perhaps because it is the product of late nights spent hunched over a guitar beside the glowing embers of a fire whilst everyone sleeps. It has spawned from the dusty corners & dank barns of his feral childhood wedged roughly between Welsh mountains and English riverbeds. \n“Andy Skellam’s Brighten Up the Place (Pear O’Legs) is a lovely\, somnambulist set of songs about wayward hearts\, bluebirds and bloodhounds\, made intimate in every soft squeak of its chord changes\, the whispery husk of Skellam’s voice\, and the drawing bows of a cello.” – The Guardian
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-firestations/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Acoustic music,alt-pop,Live music,singer-songwriter
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SUMMARY:Music: Abigail Lapell / Steph Cameron
DESCRIPTION:Abigail Lapell\nToronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell returns with Anniversary\, an evocative collection of original love songs. The album balances upbeat earworms with elegiac ballads\, ultimately emerging as an earnest celebration of commitment. Anniversary was recorded at 200-year-old St. Mark’s Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake\, Ontario\, co-produced with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker\, who helped shape the project’s spooky\, resonant sound while lending his voice to a few spellbinding duets. \n  \n \nSteph Cameron\nSPILL MAGAZINE “Steph Cameron made waves with her debut record Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady (2014)\, an effort that garnered its fair share of acclaim and rave reviews. Her sophomore release\, Daybreak Over Jackson Street shares the same heartfelt spirit and intimacy that drew listeners in the first time around. After a great deal of touring and writing\, the roots singer returns with tracks that reflect a confident songstress with maturity\, experience and an empathetic eye.” \nFOLK RADIO UK “It’s not unusual for artists plying an Americana trade to be likened to such names as Townes Van Zandt\, John Prine and Bob Dylan\, but the artists in question are usually men. It’s rare for a female singer to attract such comparisons. Vancouver’s Steph Cameron is both an exception and exceptional \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-abigail-lapell-steph-cameron/
LOCATION:Hen & Chicken Studio
CATEGORIES:alt-country,Alt-Folk,Folk Music,Live music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250515T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250515T223000
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SUMMARY:Jazz: Ross Hicks Trio
DESCRIPTION:Ross Hicks is a young Cardiff based pianist who made a great impression on a short tour with saxophonist Simon Spillett in 2023 and played his debut trio gig at the Be-Bop Club in 2024. \n“Hicks was a revelation\, ideas emerged and developed and injected drama even as the pieces unfolded at near terminal velocity” – Mike Collins [jazzyblogman]. \nPresenting music from his first album ‘Three Elms’\, Ross and his talented co-conspirators will play a mix of original compositions and some other contemporary tunes. The album is a series of original compositions and is the result of a wide array of influences with an original spin – “an intelligent and intriguing piece of writing” – The Jazz Mann. \nRoss is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama now working as  a full time freelance musician\, and has formed his trio featuring two of the Be-Bop Club’s favourite players. \nNick Kacal is a bassist originally from Trinidad\, but has roots in London and a presence on the Manchester but now residing in South Wales. After studying with Tony Hougham\, the principle bass of the Covent Garden Opera\, he moved to London and has played as a sideman on the scene playing predominantly jazz and acoustic folk\, occasionally touring to places such as Cape Verde\, France and Spain. He formed his own group\, Guerillasound\, releasing a CD in 2008 and touring successfully in Japan. \nDrummer Andy Tween is one of Bristol’s busiest musicians who has in the past toured with Pee Wee Ellis and Seth Lakeman\, and more recently with rock band Curved Air. He teaches at Wells Cathedral School and is also a composer who has had his work used by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. \nHave a listen to their album promo here: Three Elms
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/jazz-ross-hicks-trio-2/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Live music
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250522T223000
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SUMMARY:Jazz: Matt Anderson And Friends
DESCRIPTION:London-based saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson released his fourth album\, Live at Leeds Jazz Festival\, in 2024 with his long-running quartet. This live recording from the middle of their May 2023 U.K. tour is a snapshot of the band at their best: stretching out on a set of original tunes with a characteristically open\, interactive and risk-taking approach. The roots of jazz are never far away\, with a rhythmic feel and blues sensibility that is anchored in the tradition\, however the music also expands into other areas such as modal and contemporary harmony and British folk-style melodies\, giving the group a distinctive identity. \n“a well-integrated\, swinging and supremely confident ensemble… [with] a soulful depth to his musicality that underpins the academic attention to detail” – Jazzwise **** \n“The band’s synergy as an ensemble shines brightly in this live setting… a must-listen album” – Jazz in Europe \nBorn in the North Yorkshire Moors\, the son of a music teacher and based in Leeds for a time\, Matt has lived in London since 2015. Becoming part of the fertile jazz scene in the capital\, he has since performed with artists/bands such as Will Vinson\, Greg Hutchinson (with the Jiannis Pavlidis Quintet)\, Ivo Neame\, the Gareth Lockrane and Calum Gourlay big bands\, Jamie Doe’s Magic Lantern and Hannes Riepler\, and he has also toured in New Zealand\, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. In 2023\, he became a D’Addario Woodwinds artist and was also made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for contributions to the music industry.\nFor this appearance\, Matt will be joined by some of his favourite musicians from the Bristol music scene\, playing for the first time with pianist Rebecca Nash and drummer Andy Hague\, alongside his long-time collaborator bassist Will Harris\, who is a regular member of the Matt Anderson Quartet. \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/jazz-matt-anderson-and-friends/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Live music
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250523T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250523T223000
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SUMMARY:Music: Rosemary Wylde in concert
DESCRIPTION:Rosemary Wylde is in concert to celebrate the Official Debut Single Release. \nTimeless sounds from nomadic blues sister come protest-folk troubadour. London born and bred\, Rosemary embodies British rhythm fuelled by Americana influences\, gospel driven vocals\, with lyrics of change and revolution. After time on the road\, and now with roots in the West Country\, her original material celebrates the traditional to the eccentric. \nShe transports you to a by-gone era with resonator guitar\, washboard\, harmonica and use of acapella\, whilst representing a message for the present day. The evening will celebrate the official debut single release in the run up to the upcoming album ‘Peace Revue’. This full-length set will feature all 3 upcoming singles\, including the debut single ‘Peace’ and the stories behind the songs. https://rosemarywylde.com \nRosemary’s special guest is Retini. She was raised in Queens\, New York before settling in Bristol\, UK. Having been influenced strongly by Singer songwriters of the 1960’s\, her music explores a range of different acoustic styles\, blending a range of vocal sounds and melodic instrumental styles. Retini’s songs are inspired by emotions of love\, her personal experiences on life and global events\nThere will be a collection fo the rBrain Tumour Support Charity on the night. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/music-rosemary-wylde-in-concert/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Alt-Folk,American roots,Americana,Country,Live music
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SUMMARY:Jazz: Andy Urquhart Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Andy Urquhart is the power house trumpeter who has played at the club many times with Sound of Blue Note. Tonight he appears for the first time as band leader playing a set of standards and contemporary jazz tunes by current luminaries. Based near Blandford Forum\, Andy has for many years led the house band at Jazz Café Sandbanks near Poole\, in which capacity he has played with most of the UK’s best known players as visiting guests\, recent examples being Art Themen\, Iain Ballamy\, Liane Carroll and Vasilis Xenopoulos. \nPianist Phil Doyle also plays with Sound of Blue Note\, and is a former forces musician who works with the famous Joe Loss Orchestra. Known as one of the best jazz pianists working along the south coast\, he has accompanied visiting US artists such as Bobby Shew and Scott Hamilton. \nThe band is completed by Bristol rhythm team Chris Jones – bass and Andy Hague – drums.
URL:https://www.henandchicken.com/event/jazz-andy-urquhart-quartet/
LOCATION:Chicken Shed
CATEGORIES:Jazz,Live music
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