First Aid Kit - Birmingham Symphony Hall Jan 16
Blair Dunlop - Cookley Village Hall Jan 18
Cahalen Morrison and Eli West - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Jan 27
Porchlight Smoker - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Feb 1
Transatlantic Sessions - Birmingham Symphony Hall Feb 4
Luke Jackson + Amy Wadge - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Feb 5
Drew Holcomb - The Bullingdon, Oxford Feb 7
Hank Wangford Trio - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Feb 8
Sons of Bill + Paul McClure - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Feb 17
The Decemberists - Institute, Birmingham Feb 18
Lindsay Ell + Sasha McVeigh - O2 Academy 3, Birmingham Feb 26
The Mavericks - Birmingham Symphony Hall Mar 1
Hannah Aldridge - Hop Pole Inn, Bromsgrove Mar 6
Ben Glover + Angel Snow - The Buttermarket, Shrewsbury Mar 10
O'Hooley and Tidow - Birchmeadow Centre, Broseley Mar 14
Gretchen Peters - Birmingham Town Hall Mar 21
The Devil Makes Three - The Rainbow, Birmingham Mar 24
Kimmie Rhodes + Awna Teixeira - St. Georges, Bristol Mar 27
Kelley McCrae + Josh Harty - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Apr 2
Larkin Poe - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Apr 15
Benjamin Folke Thomas - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Apr 16
Danni Nicholls - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Apr 19
Sonia Leigh + Sasha McVeigh - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham Apr 22
Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins - Biddulph Town Hall Apr 23
Bella Hardy - MAC Birmingham Apr 24
Laura Marling - Institute, Birmingham Apr 27
Blair Dunlop + Emma Stevens - Glee Club, Birmingham Apr 29
The Kennedys - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham May 3
Cale Tyson - The Musician, Leicester May 7
Katzenjammer - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham May 8
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham May 10
Alabama Shakes - O2 Academy, Birmingham May 13
Police Dog Hogan - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham May 14
Lucy Ward + Kim Lowings - Katie Fitzgerald's Stourbridge May 21
Slaid Cleaves - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham May 22
Dennis Ellsworth - Birchmeadow Centre, Broseley May 30
Danny and the Champions of the World + Ags Connolly - The Bullingdon, Oxford Jun 13
Jonathan Byrd + Natalie Gelman - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham June 22
Gretchen Peters - The Assembly, Leamington Spa June 27
Sarah Jane Scouten - Marr's Bar, Worcester Jun 28
Edwina Hayes - Crescent Theatre, Birmingham Jun 29
Maverick Festival - Suffolk Jul 3 to Jul 5
Hannah Aldridge - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Jul 5
Tingestock - Tingewick Village Hall, Buckinghamshire Jul 11
Michael Weston King and Michael Cosgrave - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Jul 12
Mary Chapin Carpenter + Bella Hardy - Birmingham Town Hall Jul 15
Sarah Gayle Meech - The Musician, Leicester Jul 19
Della Mae - The Musician, Leicester Jul 21
Jason and the Scorchers - The Musician, Leicester Jul 24
Angaleena Presley - Night and Day Cafe, Manchester Jul 27
Otis Gibbs - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Jul 29
Southern Fried Festival - Perth, Scotland. Jul 31 - Aug2
Debbie Bond - The Hop Pole Inn, Bromsgrove Aug 20
The Stray Birds - The Met Studio at The Gatehouse Theatre, Stafford Aug 21
Dawes + Steve Knightley + Kate Rusby - Shrewsbury Folk Festival Aug 28
Will Hoge - The Stables, Milton Keynes Sep 4
Hayes Carll - The Glee Club, Birmingham Sep 5
Moseley Folk Festival - Birmingham Sep 5 - Sep 6
John Doyle - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Sep 13
Cardboard Fox - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Sep 21
Kim Lowings and the Greenwood - Scary Canary, Stourbridge Oct 1
Tom Russell - The Glee Club, Nottingham Oct 7
Treetop Flyers - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham Oct 8
Stephen Simmons - House Concert, Staffordshire. Oct 10
Frazey Ford - The Glee Club, Birmingham. Oct 11
The Other Half - Birmingham Rep, Oct 15
Stacie Collins - The Musician, Leicester. Oct 16
Simone Felice + Anna Mitchell - The Glee Club, Birmingham. Oct 19
Ryan Bingham - Gorilla, Manchester. Oct 23
Session Americana - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham.Oct 27
Seth Lakeman - Robin 2, Bilston. Oct 29
The Dreaming Spires - St.George's Hall, Bewdley. Oct 30
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman - Cookley Sebright Primary School. Nov 7
Callaghan - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham. Nov 8
Caddy Cooper - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham. Nov 11
Katzenjammer - Institute, Birmingham. Nov 13
Wild Ponies - Holy Cross Parish Hall, Lichfield. Nov 14
Kacey Musgraves - Royal Albert Hall, London. Nov 18
Sunjay - Katie Fitzgerald's, Stourbridge. Nov 20
Danni Nicholls - Katie Fitzgerald's, Stourbridge. Nov 27
It started with the cliche before branching out where the music matters. A personal vanity project sharing a passion for country, folk and Americana through live and recorded music since 2012. Give or take the odd hiatus or barren period.
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