January
The Small Glories - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Jason Isbell + John Moreland - 02 Academy, Bristol
The Milk Carton Kids - Union Chapel, London
Patty Griffin + Frankie Lee - Glee Club, Birmingham
Aaron Watson + Sam Outlaw - Glee Club, Birmingham
Rod Picott - Holy Cross Parish Hall, Lichfield
Jenny Ritter - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
February
Aoife O'Donovan + Robert Chaney - The Bullingdon, Oxford
Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Jarrod Dickenson - Glee Club, Birmingham
Kim Lowings and the Greenwood - Woodman Folk Club, Kingswinford
McCusker, McGoldrick and Doyle - MAC, Birmingham
Maz O'Connor - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Gretchen Peters - Artrix, Bromsgrove
Kelly Oliver - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Folkin' Great - Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
March
Angel Snow + Matthew Perryman Jones - St. George's Hall, Bewdley
The Bros. Landreth - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
Miranda Lambert + Dwight Yoakam - C2C O2 Arena, London
Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Andrew Combs - C2C O2 Arena, London
Country to Country Festival Pop Up Stages - O2 Arena, London
April
The Railsplitters - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
The Black Feathers + The Rosellys - Tower of Song, Birmingham
Treetop Flyers + Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards - Kings Heath, Birmingham
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman + Kitty MacFarlane - Artrix, Bromsgrove
Josh Harty - Thimblemill Library, Bearwood
Fred's House - Cookley Village Hall, Worcestershire
Hayes Carll - Glee Club, Nottingham
Dixie Chicks - Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham
David Ramirez - Tingewick Village Hall, Buckinghamshire
May
Danni Nicholls - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Mandolin Orange - Dark Horse, Birmingham
Cale Tyson - The Bullingdon, Oxford
Malcolm Holcombe - St.George's Hall, Bewdley
Stephen Simmons - House Concert, Staffordshire
Cajun Country Revival - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
June
Bruce Springsteen - Ricoh Arena, Coventry
Lera Lynn - The Bodega Bar, Nottingham
Jinney Ring Folk Festival - Worcestershire
Hannah Aldridge + Lilly Hiatt - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Rainbow, Birmingham
July
Maverick Festival - Suffolk
Elizabeth Cook - Grimey's, Nashville, Tennesse
Matraca Berg, Kim Richey, Bill Lloyd, Don Henry - Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, Tennessee
Brandy Zdan + Mark Edgar Stuart - 5 Spot, Nashville, Tennessee
David Olney - Family Wash, Nashville, Tennessee
Christian Lopez Band + Larissia Murphy - City Winery, Nashville, Tennessee
The Time Jumpers - 3rd and Lindsley, Nashville, Tennessee
Ben Glover - McNamara's, Nashville, Tennessee
Austin Lucas - The Mothlight, Asheville, North Carolina
Danny Schmidt - ISIS Music Hall, Asheville, North Carolina
Peidmont Boys + Charlotte Berg - WDVX Blue Plate Special, Knoxville, Tennessee
Forecastle Festival - Louisville, Kentucky
Brandi Carlile, Old Crow Medicine Shows, Dawes - Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, Maryland
August
Anna and Elizabeth - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Joan Shelley - The Musician, Leicester
Margo Price - The Exchange, Bristol
Ben Folke Thomas - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
September
Moseley Folk Festival - Birmingham
Danny & the Champions of the World + Dean Owens - The Donkey, Leicester
Jenn Bostic, Kyshona Armstrong, Sarah Darling - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Madison Violet - Glee Club, Birmingham
Brandy Clark + Ben Glover - Glee Club, Birmingham
Ags Connolly - Tower of Song, Birmingham
Michele Stodart - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
October
Blue Rose Code - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Otis Gibbs - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker - Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham
My Darling Clementine - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
Austin Lucas with The Dreaming Spires - Hare and Hounds, Birmingham
The Stray Birds - The Bullingdon, Oxford
Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Kelley McRae - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Simone Felice - Glee Club, Birmingham
November
Brandi Carlile - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Carrie Rodriguez - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Katy Rose Bennett Band - St.George's Hall, Bewdley
The Black Feathers - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Sara Watkins - The Bullingdon, Oxford
High & Lonesome Festival - Brudenell Social Club/Left Bank, Leeds
December
Emily Portman & the Coracle - MAC Birmingham
Whiskey Myers - O2 Institute, Birmingham
Lissie - O2 Institute, Birmingham
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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