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"Plaintive finger-picking pastoral folk brilliance, dripping with hushed Nick Drake melancholia and Bert Jansch barroom virtuosity. Henry Ayling’s a troubadour lost in time: travelling from place to place along cart-dusted hedgerows in search of songs and sympathetic ears. Simply jawdropping!"
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A gig held at The Cube on Thursday 28th November. The event starts at 20:00.
An evening of folk music in a late autumnal key to tickle the last leaves from the tree. Open to the folkies who can't stand another rushed open mic or a talkative pub session, this is for all those who love to listen to traditional stories and be lullabied into a pastoral dream world of Engliish revelirie. Two young folk artists of faire Bristol gather for an evening of gentle folk to welcome in the dark months.
Henry Ayling
A bristol based fingerpicking singer-songwriter guitarist often spotted around the quieter corners of Bristol's pubs and in the occasional smokey living room session, Henry Ayling is revered among the folk lovers and the open mic community across the South West, Winchester and Oxford. Reimagining the classical folk-blues-jazz lexicon into ever richer and more colourful combinations, Henry's music draws from the canon of J.S Bach, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, Tia Blake, & Vashti Bunyan, through his own unique English folk sensibility. Having played across nearly every pub from Pembrokeshire to Cornwall, its finally time Henry received a sit down gig to highlight his immense talent and inspiration. In the words of one local Kingsdown pub landlord...
“Henry Ayling plays finger-picking folk guitar in the style of John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, etc., and is on par with these classic guitarists. By the end of his set, you could’ve heard a pin drop in the pub, the entire audience was captivated. Henry is sure to have a long career ahead. I saw John Renbourn and Bert Jansch perform live and Henry gives them a run for their money.”
https://henryayling.bandcamp.com/album/we-roamed-through-the-garden
Loam
Elegant, prosaic original folk music from this stunning emerging female folk duo.What started out as a way for housemates Sadie Poole Zane and Beatrice Convert to explore songwriting and musical experimentation, Loam have risen quickly within Bristol's folk bubble to an in demand attache to various events, themed evenings, or calm summer garden nights. With a gentle poeticism of lyric and a delicate hand, Loam conjure a new kind of gently produced folk very much theirs yet still within the lineage of English folk tradition.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Henry Ayling
A bristol based fingerpicking singer-songwriter guitarist often spotted around the quieter corners of Bristol's pubs and in the occasional smokey living room session, Henry Ayling is revered among the folk lovers and the open mic community across the South West, Winchester and Oxford. Reimagining the classical folk-blues-jazz lexicon into ever richer and more colourful combinations, Henry's music draws from the canon of J.S Bach, Bert Jansch, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, Tia Blake, & Vashti Bunyan, through his own unique English folk sensibility. Having played across nearly every pub from Pembrokeshire to Cornwall, its finally time Henry received a sit down gig to highlight his immense talent and inspiration. In the words of one local Kingsdown pub landlord...
“Henry Ayling plays finger-picking folk guitar in the style of John Renbourn, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham, etc., and is on par with these classic guitarists. By the end of his set, you could’ve heard a pin drop in the pub, the entire audience was captivated. Henry is sure to have a long career ahead. I saw John Renbourn and Bert Jansch perform live and Henry gives them a run for their money.”
https://henryayling.bandcamp.com/album/we-roamed-through-the-garden
Loam
Elegant, prosaic original folk music from this stunning emerging female folk duo.What started out as a way for housemates Sadie Poole Zane and Beatrice Convert to explore songwriting and musical experimentation, Loam have risen quickly within Bristol's folk bubble to an in demand attache to various events, themed evenings, or calm summer garden nights. With a gentle poeticism of lyric and a delicate hand, Loam conjure a new kind of gently produced folk very much theirs yet still within the lineage of English folk tradition.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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