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One of Mali’s most beloved and dynamic artists, Rokia Koné is a force to be reckoned with.

She has a voice that soars – pure, clear and true — above infectious Mande guitar grooves and traditional percussion, and her captivating performances run the gamut of emotion from joy to despair, fury to tenderness, wielding that astounding voice with grace and power.

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🎶 Afriquoi
🏛️ The Lantern
📆 13.12.24

Live African dance music, fusing Congolese guitar + Gambian kora virtuosity with UK electronic sensibilities to create uplifting, dancefloor-friendly new music for a new generation of music fans.

Afriquoi are an underground sensation, bringing an uplifting fusion of African music and live electronics. The masterful 5-piece live show combines Gambian kora, Congolese guitar + Mandinka percussion styles with electronic music drawing on house, garage, disco, soul + jungle to create something entirely unique.

Based in London, Afriquoi is a UK afro supergroup, with every musician a band leader in their own right. With members ranging in age across 3 decades, originating from Africa, the Caribbean and the UK, Afriquoi is true fusion music in the best sense of the word, bringing together a vast depth of musical knowledge, culture and life experience.

The Afriquoi DJ set with live percussion has become something of a phenomenon in its own right, tearing up the floor with a wide spread of Afriquoi’s influences, from Oumou Sangare and Francis Bebey right through to Louie Vega and Midland. Check out DJ mixes for Dimensions Festival and Rinse FM.

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Announcing Tamsin Elliott as support for Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell, next Sunday, 13th October!

“A new British talent” - The Guardian

Tamsin is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and film-maker based in Bristol, UK. With roots in the folk music of England and Ireland, her interests and playing styles extend to European and Middle Eastern musics as well as experimental and ambient sounds. Her critically acclaimed debut solo album ‘FREY’, which features the playing of Sid Goldsmith and Rowan Rheingans, is out now on Penny Fiddle Records. In this work, which comprises compositions for accordion, harp, whistle and voice, Tamsin explores themes of limbo, pain, healing and acceptance, reflecting on the microcosm of her personal experience of chronic illness alongside wider themes of societal disconnection and environmental grief.

“Tamsin Elliott’s debut album, FREY, is, in a word, sublime. Few albums this year have taken us on such a magical journey” - Tradfolk

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Join us on Friday 18th October at for this energetic show covering Rockabilly, Blues, Country, Swing, Soul and Folk!

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joins as support on Friday 18th October at

Joe Strouzer sings songs from his travels from Newcastle to New Orleans and a hell of a lot of places in between. His driving guitar playing is coupled with true harmonica voodoo and biting songwriting of modern trouble, heartpains, moonlit trysts, drinking and devilment, peppered with a rich history of blues.

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Early October sees take the stage at !

Rachel is a contemporary bluegrass / folk from a young singer-songwriter, guitarist & fiddle player from Nashville. Since her first solo release in 2017 she’s carved out a niche as an increasingly important, distinctive, and political solo artist.

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Eartrumpet Music Presents: HENGE + Tirikilatops. Family Matinee and evening show at Trinity.

Attention Humans! This is HENGE.
We are not from this world.
We bring you music from distant planets.
We offer this gift for the edification of humankind… so that eventually your species may put an end to war and set up new homes in space.

Extra-terrestrial joymongers - HENGE - have been delighting audiences in the UK and Europe since they landed on Planet Earth nine years ago. Their scintillating live performances earned them ‘Best Live Act’ at the Independent Festival Awards and they have since cemented their reputation with three acclaimed albums, numerous tours and regular main-stage festival appearances.

Their music escapes definition, but occupies a space between rave and prog rock that nobody knew existed. It is energetic, subversive and invigoratingly playful, jovially breaking new ground. Ultimately, these intrepid creatures are spreading a message of hope which leaves audiences feeling amused and uplifted in equal measures.

They are supported by Tirikilatops - a collaboration between UK and S. Korean artists and musicians located in the UK. A combination of kimchi beats, pop sensibilities, offbeat lyrics, dayglo colours, hacked keyboards, dada attitudes, forteana and super earworm melodies.

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Announcing Million Seller as support for Get The Blessing on Saturday 21st September at Strange Brew!

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Friday 13th September - join us for at !

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🎶 Get The Blessing
🏛️ Strange Brew
📆 21.09.24

Formed in 1999 by bassist Jim Barr and drummer Clive Deamer, best known as the rhythm section of seminal act Portishead, award-winning Bristolian jazz-rock disruptors ‘Get The Blessing’ are proud to present their seventh studio album. ‘Pallet’ which was released on October 20th.

Like most artists around the world, the pandemic forced the ensemble to rethink their creative processes. Born from a series of improvisations between Barr, Pete Judge on trumpet and Jake McMurchie on saxophone, the trio built up a rough portfolio of recordings which they then sent to Deamer, who added his drum parts at home in Oxfordshire. The result is nine minimalist compositions driven by groove, texture, electronics and spontaneity.

Built around the hypnotic loops that have become synonymous with their sound, Pallet is an exploration of the nexus of improvisation and modern production. Grounded by thick, punchy basslines and playful drum grooves, the record creates deep sonic spaces through the use of dizzying delays, squelching filtered loops, and trails.

The album’s title owes much to the obtuse punning jazz musicians have enjoyed since the 50’s; the song titles conjure up an imaginary color chart with which the listener can fill in the paint-by-numbers image of a wooden pallet on the cover art.

For over two decades Get The Blessing have been growing their truly international fanbase, touring across the world in the UK, USA, Canada, Dubai, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, and Ukraine.

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Join us for on 24th September at !

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Join us for Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell at on 13th October!

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🎶 NAMVULA + Liz Ikamba - Double Header
🏛️ The Wardrobe Theatre
📆 02.12.24

NAMVULA is a singer and songwriter whose artistic journey is an exploration of cultural intersections and heartfelt storytelling. Her music reflects the nuances and complexities of her mixed Zambian and Scottish heritage, and a restlessness born of her diasporic upbringing.

* * * * “A true original…a soulful performer. An adventurous and impressive set that blends African styles with jazz” – The Guardian

* * * * “Melodies that speak to the heart ” – Sunday Times

British-Congolese (DRC) artist Liz Ikamba serves up a distinctive sound that fuses inspiration from across the diaspora, from Congo folk music and traditional African rhythms to dub-reggae, jazz, soul and hip-hop. Think Nina Simone, Sade and Erykah Badu with a Congolese twist!

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We’re taking a little summer break, and this is our first gig back come September!

Join us on Friday 6th September at for and !

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🎶 Muireann Bradley
🏛️ Strange Brew
📆 03.12.24

Muireann Bradley is a 17 year old folk and blues guitarist and singer from Ballybofey in County Donegal. She specializes in performing acoustic fingerpicking country, piedmont, and ragtime blues styles from the 1920s, 30s and 40s as well as later folk, country and Americana.

Her influences include Blind Blake, Rev Gary Davis, Memphis Minnie, Elizabeth Cotten, Mississippi John Hurt, Stefan Grossman, Ari Eisinger, John Fahey and Roy Bookbinder.

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🎶 Mikey Kenney
🏛️ Bristol Folk House
📆 15.12.24

Mikey Kenney is an original. A passionate and well-respected advocate for traditional music – a brilliant Liverpool-style fiddler drawing primarily on his native North West English and Irish heritage – but grounded in a present-day, urban reality.

He is a musician with wide-open horizons and insatiable curiosity for new possibilities. As evidenced on his latest album, The Reverie Road (Penny Fiddle Records), Kenney’s songwriting is both adventurous and earth-bound, with his high lonesome voice exploring sun-drenched Italian vistas, dream worlds, and sounds of the city.

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🎶 Safrela
🏛️ The Jam Jar
📆 19.10.24

Safrela are an all-female, Bristol-based collective, brought together by their love of Afro-Brazilian rhythms and vocal harmonies. Drawing from their combined experience and passion for Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music, Safrela perform a mix of traditional and original material and arrangements. Expect beautiful multi-vocal harmonies, alongside powerful Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as maracatu, samba de coco, cirandas and more. Making music they love, with people they love.

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We recently updated our website to include all of our past shows. It’s been brilliant looking back at all of the fantastic shows we’ve hosted!

Check it out for yourself here https://eartrumpetmusic.co.uk/past-shows/ 😁

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🎶 Mesadorm + Supalung Double Header
🏛️ The Jam Jar
📆 20.11.24

Mesadorm. Bone-melting. Intravenous Cup-a-Soup. Intimacy, depth-channelling beats and shining synth-led harmonies. A unique and bright collage of dead-good. Not for the faint of constitution. For divers not paddlers.

SupaLung is the Alt Chamber Rock Pop moniker of singer-songwriter Sam Brookes alongside multi-instrumentalist & producer Pete Josef. The group describe their music as joyous, melodic and experimental.

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🎶 Martin Simpson
🏛️ Bristol Folk House
📆 01.11.24

“One of the virtuoso instrumentalists of the English music scene... sounds better than ever” **** The Guardian

One of England’s most revered folk performers, widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, Martin’s interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. His remarkable solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding, and deeply moving. Always prolific, and never one to rest long without a guitar in his hands and a song in his head, Martin Simpson continues to travel the length and breadth of the UK and beyond giving rapt audiences passion, sorrow, love, beauty, tragedy, and majesty through his remarkable intimate solo performances. Martin has been nominated an astounding 32 times in the 18 years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - more than any other performer - and has won numerous awards.

Martin’s new solo album, Skydancers, will be released in April 2024 on Topic Records. The album is a twin release featuring a live CD recorded on recent gigs and a studio CD including some of Martin’s absolutely favourite musicians. Last year’s album with Nashville’s Thomm Jutz, Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs Of Mary Sands And Jane Gentry, received superlative reviews from both sides of the Atlantic. “Drizzling with Simpson’s shining guitars” The Guardian “A record of rare power and significance” 9/10 Guitarist

A virtuoso player without question, but above all Martin Simpson conveys his diverse treasure trove of material from the heart, performing with rare subtlety, intensity, and honesty. A true master of his art.

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🎶 Rachel Baiman [Seated show]
🏛️ Strange Brew
📆 09.10.24

Raised in Chicago, Baiman made her way to Nashville at 18 with the dream of being a professional fiddle player and has since released two solo records and an EP, alongside session and side-person work with Kacey Musgraves, Kevin Morby, and Molly Tuttle among many others. Since her first solo release in 2017 she’s carved out a niche as an increasingly important, distinctive, and political solo artist. Her latest self-produced album, Common Nation Of Sorrow, is arguably her finest to date. It’s certainly her most outspoken and hard-hitting, exploring the underbelly of American capitalism, and the individual and communal devastation it manifests, particularly on her own generation. It’s a tribute to her ability as a writer, singer, and producer that it does so to such powerfully moving effect.

“With her expressive and finely weathered voice, she weaves traditional bluegrass and folk threads through plights big and small, injustices, and generational trauma” - No Depression

“Rachel Baiman’s emotionally raw, plaintive vocals create an exquisite, expansive soundscape that allows her lyrics to permeate our souls, calling us to consider the delicate balance of the human condition, to mourn it, to celebrate it.” - Folk Alley

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🎶 Ríoghnach Connolly and guests
🏛️ The Mount Without
📆 27.11.14

Ríoghnach Connolly grew up surrounded by a rich musical familial heritage and through Armagh Pipers’ Club in Armagh City, in the northeast of Ireland. Now based in Manchester, she is a professional vocalist, flautist, lyricist, workshop facilitator and musical activist. She has toured internationally and extensively, performing and recording in bands The Breath (Real World Records), HoneyFeet (Stardust Works) Band of Burns (Órd Bán) and Afro Celt Sound System (ECC). Ríoghnach has a worldwide publishing deal with Real World Records as a writer and currently holds the title of BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of the Year.

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🎶 Opa Rosa - Album Launch
🏛️ The Jam Jar
📆 14.11.14

Fast gaining a reputation as one of UK’s most dynamic and virtuosic bands, Opa Rosa are an energetic acoustic ensemble sharing music from the Balkan, Greek, Klezmer & Roma traditions. With several combined decades of study and experience, all five musicians are well-versed in the musical traditions’ syntax and significance, capturing all the joy and sorrow that these traditions are so renowned for expressing.

Deeply rooted in Balkan traditions, Opa Rosa’s music aims to explore and reinvent the motifs of Eastern Europe by subtly drawing from other musical influences such as Post-Rock, Classical and Jazz. With their lineup of violin, clarinet, accordion, double bass and percussion, their unique and refined sound consists of an explosive and grooving rhythm section combined with intricate melodies soaring over rich and nuanced harmonic structures.

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🎶 Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell
🏛️ Bristol Folk House
📆 13.10.24

Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell met as teenagers, as part of the first cohort of the National Youth Folk Ensemble. Since forming their duo in 2018, they have: supported Martin Hayes (at EartH, London and Band on the Wall, Manchester) and Mammal Hands (at the Barbican, London); been nominated for the BBC Young Folk Award; released their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘You, Golden’ with five star reviews and had national airplay on BBC Radio 2,3,4 and 6 alongside RTE1 in Ireland and BBC Scotland. Their EP ‘102 Metres East’ was released on Peter Gabriel’s Real World X in March 2024.

As their music has developed, the duo have drifted away from the expectations of an English folk fiddle and guitar duo, with dynamic range, atmosphere and intimacy becoming more present in their own compositions, re-examining what it means to be ‘authentic’ as two modern English folk musicians.

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