London’s Ultimate Music Calendar

The City Is Coming to Erase It All is Fink’s ninth studio album, following 2024’s Beauty In Your Wake. Recorded in Zennor, Cornwall, the album was made with a strict era-specific approach. Imagining a record Michael Chapman might have made, right down to the guitar strings.

Prairie noir. Canadiana desert rock. Haunting, gorgeous modern folk.

Noah Kahan will be returning to The O2 with The Great Divide Tour on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November 2026.

Grace Cummings brings her most ambitious and unsettling work to Europe and the UK this November. Bloodhorse! — out August 14th via ATO Records — is the fourth album from the Melbourne-born singer-songwriter, and it arrives as a bold leap into new territory.

Temple Grade is a groove-centred, psyche-inspired, folk-leaning DIY pop band whose songwriting explores the inner psyche through a fairytale, mythic lens.

Multi award-winning electronic folk band from the Highlands of Scotland.

Jill Andrews is a Nashville based singer and songwriter from East Tennessee, known for giving quiet, overlooked moments a voice.

“An Authentic Soul-Rattling Folk Musical”

Franz & Marie is a unique and visceral musical that breathes new life into Georg Büchner’s classic German tragedy, Woyzeck, with soul-rattling Indie Raw Folk.

A fantastic lineup of alt-country and indie-folk at Music Room, New Cross. Fabulous songwriters in a beautiful location. Pay what you like on the night.

An evening of exceptional contemporary folk and traditional music

Join us for a special double-bill concert celebrating the vitality and evolving tradition of folk music from Ireland, Britain and beyond.

Making a welcome return to Kings Place, Blazin’ Fiddles champion Scotland’s rich regional fiddle styles, driven by exceptional piano and guitar accompaniment

Statesboro, Georgia-born, Cambridge, England-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brooks Williams is a leading light on the roots acoustic music scene.

The Ragged Out String Band play an infectious and energetic take on Old-Time Appalachian Folk Music and Bluegrass. Expect fiery fiddle tunes and songs backed up by a driving rhythm section of guitar and banjo. The band are Emily Smith (fiddle), Joe Auckland (banjo) and Andy Quelch (guitar).

The Ukadelix is a London based band of five women playing an eclectic and fun mix of genre-defying original and cover songs filled with rich vocal harmonies.

“An Authentic Soul-Rattling Folk Musical”

Franz & Marie is a unique and visceral musical that breathes new life into Georg Büchner’s classic German tragedy, Woyzeck, with soul-rattling Indie Raw Folk.

Technology may transform the battlefield, but it does not alter human nature. The same timeless questions remain: What is there to be afraid of? What does it mean to be confronted with something no one was ever meant to witness?

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Great musicians playing live folk music that will transport you to a world of enchanting melodies. Come on down for a jig.

Some Foreign Shore is an enchanting new collaboration between “one of the finest fingerstyle guitarists of his generation” Dariush Kanani and “the voice of fairytales” Daria Kulesh – an evening of pure escapism into the music of Anne Briggs, Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, and other folk greats.

The hKippers are a mixed bunch; formed 38 years ago in Stoke Newington, London, by Oscar winning composer Stephen Warbeck, Pogues’ drummer Andrew Ranken and actor Paul Bradley.

Influenced and inspired by Scotland and Ireland’s wealth of historical and contemporary traditional song bearers, Lainey writes and sings about rebels, underdogs, the supernatural and the broken hearted.

Hunter Muskett are an acoustic/electric band playing distinctive original songs in a folk, blues and sometimes Americana style.

Two distinctive voices in contemporary British songwriting come together for an intimate evening of folk, Americana and atmospheric storytelling.

Hampshire-based Lucy Kitchen combines the warmth of classic 1970s songwriting with songs shaped by nature, grief and transformation.

The Rheingans Sisters: Critics have hailed their music as “extraordinary” and “fearless”, with The Guardian describing their 2024 album Start Close In as a “radical leap”.