Presenting live acoustic music in Twickenham most Sundays, at Patchworks, The Cabbage Patch pub, 2 minutes from Twickenham Station
TwickFolk has been presenting live music in South West London since January 1983. We are now one of the best-known and most highly respected hosts of live acoustic, folk, blues and Americana in South East England. We aim to book the best quality acts across a broad range of genres – traditional and contemporary music from Britain, Europe and beyond. Doors open at 7.45pm, for music at 8pm. The Cabbage Patch serves a selection of real ales and craft beers alongside everything you’d expect of a pub, including food.
Coming up at TwickFolk:
17 May: Suntrap
Suntrap are an English five-piece folk band specialising in a unique musical experience of folk-inspired traditional, original and contemporary songs and featuring entrancing harmonies and a wide range of instruments. The band was founded by Sara Byers and Mary Wilson, who began singing together after meeting at Cecil Sharp House in 1996. The following year, they made their first demo at Dave Pegg’s Woodwork Studios.
Since then, Suntrap have gone on to make five highly regarded CDs. Their most recent, Northern Lights, was launched at TwickFolk in 2019 and features our own Sue Graves, who is a stunning addition to the band’s powerful harmony sound. The CD also includes virtuosic, irrepressible fiddler John Sandall as well as multi-instrumentalist and producer Tom Evans, who recreated the band’s live sound by recording in the round, using a forest of microphones rather than layering up the songs in a studio.
Suntrap have played all over the UK and Europe at major folk festivals, folk clubs and art centres. The band have been privileged to open Cambridge and Warwick Folk Festivals.
Quotes about the Northern Lights album:
“Suntrap manage to blur the lines between sublime… Continue reading. →
24 May: Singaround: Informal, unplugged song circle
Another of our popular singaround evenings.
Expect anything from sea shanties to psychedelia, with a mix of original songs, traditional songs and covers of well known and less known songs.
Some performers will take requests on the night.
If you fancy a go at singing in public, then this is the place to start.
If you just want to sit back and listen, that’s also fine. In fact listening, and paying attention to the words and music, is what an evening of folk is all about.
We welcome anyone with a song or a tune to play. Or a poem or a story tell. Expect a warm welcome and a supportive ring of singers and audience.
Non-performers are welcome to come and there is no need to pre-book.
… Continue reading. →7 June: Katie Spencer
We are delighted to welcome back the astoundingly talented singer, songwriter and guitarist Katie Spencer. Katie first appeared at TwickFolk in 2023, just after releasing her second album. Since then, she has completed multiple tours in the UK and further afield, and last year released What Love Is, an entrancing album of of heartfelt and intricately crafted songs.
Raised in the East Yorkshire flatlands on the fringes of Hull, Katie’s landscape has always been that of open skies and widening rivers. It is this sense of space and movement that flows through her music. Her writing, and most notably her guitar playing, stems from a time when the steel-stringed instrument was truly finding its voice. Artists like Joni Mitchell, Michael Chapman and John Martyn weave into her sound. Katie absorbs these influences into her songwriting and with her distinctive deep vibrato and crystal-clear guitar style, she makes the music inimitably her own.
What Is Love was produced by Matt Ingram (Laura Marling, The Staves). Recorded in London’s Urchin Studios, it features prominent players Giacomo Smith (clarinet), Max Clilverd (pedal steel), Tom Mason (double bass) and Matt Ingram (drums, synth).… Continue reading. →
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