On this page we will bring you details of the artists we have booked and links to buy tickets.
30th anniversary year
Doors open at 8pm and the music starts at 8.30.
Please note that for gigs at The Great Northern Railway Tavern, this is an upstairs pub room and not wheelchair accessible.
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Adam Beattie
February 13 2026
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
£20
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Adam Beattie made his debut at the Kalamazoo last year – not before time!
This brilliant London-based Scot has been captivating audiences everywhere for 20 years with his gentle, haunting songs of love and loss.
Superlatives come thick and fast for an artist steeped in the folk tradition of his homeland and who is a proud member of 12-piece supergroup Band of Burns, an international ensemble casting a new light on the work of Scotland’s national poet.
“Incredibly beautiful,” said BBC Radio6 Music’s Mary Anne Hobbs. “Fantastic,” said Bob Harris and the verdict from Loud and Quiet magazine on the latest of his five acclaimed solo albums was “mesmeric.”
Just describing him as a singer-songwriter doesn’t come close. As Americana UK puts it: “Beattie’s arrangements, finger-picking acoustic guitar and distinctive vocals make short work of any such labelling as he throws jazz and blues into the folk mix and produces songs of great originality drawn from experience and observation of the human condition.”
Boo Hewerdine
March 20 2026
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
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Acclaimed Ivor Novello Award nominated English singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine’s album “Swimming in Mercury” (Reveal Records) gives us a personal insight as he takes us on that journey back in time. It’s a trip furnished with a glisten and a glint in his eye as he applies style and shapes to his autobiographical memories. Hewerdine revisits and recreates music in a manner that, put simply, a band starting out just couldn’t afford.
In his own words “The new album was recorded in the spirit of the first four track recording I ever did… but instead of a chunky cassette deck we were able to use Chris Pepper’s Cambridge studio. It was an incredibly enjoyable and creative way to work. Often I would write a song in the morning and by the end of the day we would have another track done”.
As a recording artist, Boo’s first tentative steps came with the band The Great Divide before the formation of his much-loved eighties group The Bible and a career that subsequently bloomed such that he is now in constant demand as a musician, songwriter, producer, teacher and live concert performer.
In the past, Boo has toured and worked with Brit Award-winning, former Fairground Attraction singer Eddi Reader. Together they enjoyed international success with the Hewerdine-written hit single “Patience of Angels” in 1995 and Boo also produced Reader’s “Sings the Songs of Robert Burns” in 2003, an album now viewed as a folk classic.
He has also collaborated with songwriter Findlay Napier, Chris Difford of Squeeze and his duo with Brooks Williams, State of The Union.
All through Boo’s career of performing, of writing material for major artists such as Sia, K.D Lang, Kris Drever (Lau), Duke Special, David McAlmont, and Eddi Reader, being produced by Steve Earle or touring with Richard Thompson to name but a few, it is perhaps going right back to his childhood that gives us the best clues as to his motivation.
Speaking around the release of his Best Of collection, My Name in The Brackets, Boo explained “I had a Dansette and a handful of 45s. What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For? I Remember You, Seven Little Girls. Records from that strange era between Rock & Roll and The Beatles. I would study the labels. The title, the singer, the numbers, Columbia, HMV, the stuff about rights written around the edge and most intriguing – the names in the brackets. It turned out that these people had “written” these songs. Songs could be made up. Conjured out of thin air. I decided then, at the age of seven, that’s what I would do. I couldn’t sing or play an instrument but I had an internal jukebox going on the whole time.
“All I ever wanted was my name in the brackets. And it gave me this life”.
Boo Hewerdine is one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business and a unique talent.
The Errol Linton Band
April 17
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
£20
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Three times winner of the British Best Harmonica Player of the Year Blues Awards, Errol Linton is a harmonica wizard from Brixton (of Jamaican descent), a singer, a songwriter, a painter and the hero of the London Underground, where he played his unique and highly original blend of blues with hints of reggae for 20 years! Following the release of his critically acclaimed 3rd album, Mama Said in 2011, his songs can now be heard on national and regional BBC radio and Jazz FM.
Brixton born and bred, Errol funded the production costs for his latest album from busking for over 15 years and blends Chicago style blues with his Jamaican and London roots. But he’s playing much bigger gigs now and has supported Dr John and Screaming Jay Hawkins.
Sam Carter
May 8 2026
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
£20
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“Sam Carter is a brilliant guitarist and songwriter who combines the observational with social comment and personal reflection” Songlines
“Fans of acoustic music rejoice, the UK ‘s proud tradition of folk singer-songwriters is in safe hands.” Guitarist Magazine
“Really wonderful” Jools Holland
Midlands-born Sam Carter is a BBC Folk Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist renowned for his lyrical storytelling, which Uncut described as being “as penetrating as Richard Thompson’s best work”. For over 15 years, he has been stirring audiences from Camden to Canada, from major festivals to intimate clubs. Carter’s expressive fingerpicking led Jon Boden of Bellowhead to call him “the finest English-style fingerpicking guitarist of his generation,” while Ivor Novello-winner Nitin Sawhney has praised his “killer voice.”
With a discography that spans six solo albums and two releases with the folk-rock band False Lights, Carter’s music reflects a blend of traditional English folk, shape-note singing, and rock. Notable highlights in his career include a spellbinding performance on Later… with Jools Holland, where he played songs from his shape-note-inspired album The No Testamentalongside renowned fiddler Sam Sweeney.
Sam Carter’s spring tour celebrates the release of The Oakham Poacher (2025), his first solo collection of traditional songs; some captured on record for the very first time. The EP highlights Carter’s distinctive fingerstyle guitar and storytelling flair, arriving soon after his acclaimed album Silver Horizon (2024), a Top 40 Folk Chart success and one of KLOF Mag’s Albums of the Year.
Sam Carter’s live performances are nothing short of captivating, filled with the raw honesty, humour, and skilled musicianship that underscore his standing as one of contemporary folk’s brightest talents.
The Cosimo Matassa Project
June 12 2026
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
£20
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The Cosimo Matassa Project are a London-based collective of musicians united by a passion for 50s rhythm ‘n’ blues, and a love for the artists who passed through Cosimo Matassa’s studios.
This man made musical magic in his New Orleans recording studio 75 years ago and became one of the most important figures in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, guiding to stardom Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Dr John, Allen Toussaint, Lloyd Price, Big Joe Turner and many more.
He created the New Orleans sound – heavy on piano, bass and horns, copied by many and still hugely influential in popular music today.
Now, in a brilliant revival of the glorious music of that time, we present The Cosimo Matassa Project, the brainchild of Dai Price (leader of those long-time Kalamazoo favourites, Dai and the Ramblers) and piano maestro Alan Dunn. Bass man Dai leads on vocals and has assembled a crack team of session players : Al “Dente” Dunn (he’s worked with Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Bob Geldof), tenor sax man Damian Hind (Van Morrison, Jerry Dammers, Allen Toussaint), trumpeter Dave Priseman (Imelda May, Jeff Beck, Jools Holland orchestra) and drummer Jonathan Lee (James Hunter band).
Robin and Bina Williamson
September 11 2026
With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards
£30
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These two magic performers have often worked as a duo.
Here as a co-bill they perform individual songs, tunes and stories, original and traditional, as well as performing together.
Singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bina has a hauntingly sweet melodious voice. To her performance of traditional songs she brings a heartfelt sincerity all her own. Her debut solo album is currently in the making.
Musician, poet, painter and storyteller Robin was also a founding member of The Incredible String Band. He has forefronted many genres over his distinguished 60-year career.
Robin and Bina are two brilliant performers, not to be missed!
“Enthralling,” Celtic Connections Festival.
“Pure beauty through simplicity,” Robert Plant.
More acts to be announced soon