Bromyard Music Sessions

This year’s Bromyard Folk Festival kicks off on Thursday, September 8th, with a free concert in the Falcon Mews in Bromyard.

This will be the 5th year in succession that Bromyard musicians, involved in the town’s regular pub sessions, put on a concert appearance for early arrivals for the Folk Festival and regular supporters in the town.

Music starts at 8.00 pm prompt and runs through till 11.30 with a terrific range of local talent. All are welcome but get there early as the music will start at 8.00 prompt and a large audience is expected.

Guests include:

Kiwi’s Fiddle
Young local 4-piece band playing mainly traditional Irish. Melodeon, fiddle, flute, whistle, guitar, bodhran, vocals.

The Broken Brothers
Dave Evans and Francis Budden playing Dave’s and Francis’s own songs plus bluegrass-tinged standards.

Granny’s Attic
Young 3-piece band featuring multi-instrumentalist Cohen Kilcoyne plus George and Lewis. Fiddle, concertina, melodeon, mandoline, guitar and vocals.

Pete & Stevie Geoghegan
Bromyard’s best known folk music couple featuring Stevie’s wonderful singing and whistle playing with Pete’s guitar and mandola accompanying. Old friends to many festival visitors.

Loxley
Sally Stamford’s excellent 3-piece featuring Arthur Hyde (guitar, bazaar, uke and vocals), John Eyre (guitar and vocals) and Sally Stamford (shakey egg and vocals). Interesting songs with outstanding harmonies.

Tony Burt & the Bromyard Sessions Big Band
Currently recording Tony’s album of self-penned songs, “Devil’s Diamond”, this 7-piece band produce a big sound featuring Tony Burt on guitar and vocals, Dave Haigh second guitar, Dave Evans lead guitar, Jim Rolt double bass, Mark Lewis bodhran, Aly May whistles and the ubiquitous Cohen Kilcoyne on concertina, melodeon and fiddle.

There will be John Silver’s normal array of real ales from Wye Valley and Brains and all set in the atmospheric surroundings of the Falcon Mews.