Bath Folk

10/02/2026

Next week in Chapel Arts Centre.

Chapel arts centre always has a very interesting programme and is always supporting local and up and coming artists as well as artists on tour that may be off your radar.

And it's one of the most beautiful and intimate places to watch a gig in Bath

10/02/2026

Great to see our old pal Josh Clark in the engine room of Sheelanagig

We are delighted to announce that the amazing Josh Clark will be joining the band and bashing out the phat grooves for us! He has recorded and produced three of our albums, mastered another one and has been our long standing dep drummer for the past 20 years. To say he knows our music inside out is a major understatement. When he is not on the road with us you will also see him out and about with the legend that is Kate Rusby. His first official gig will be on the 19th March at Manchester Folk festival. Welcome on board Josh!

photo: Phil Carter

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29/10/2025

Bath folk thoroughly recommends this duo if Dreamy intelligent folk is your thing. Louis Campbell was the guitarist in the first generation of the Bath youth folk band and was clear that when we met him at the age of 11 he was already talented beyond his years and set for big things. That was a spring board for him to join the national youth folk orchestra and attended residential course at Hallway manor and meet the equal talented Owen Spafford . They hit it off and have been playing together since. Now signed to Real World Records they are playing in Bristol tonight

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Ear Trumpet presents: Spafford Campbell. Seated Show at The Wardrobe Theatre, 25 West St, BS2 0DF - All Ages (Under 18s to be accompanied by a responsible adult) Open your palm, and there it is. The morrow. The next moment. Hold it loose, then leave it be. All that matters is here, now. To listen to...

21/10/2025

Bath Folk Thoroughly recommends that you get over to the The Jam Jar Bristol to see our good friends from Scotland. High energy Irish and Scottish trad at its best! Anything put on by Ear trumpet music is always assured of being of the greatest quality and we suggest checking out their full roster of gigs.

https://eartrumpetmusic.co.uk/

18/09/2025

Check out our friends Club Débris playing their own brand of high-energy French-Canadian trad at The Jam Jar Bristol on Sunday 12th October! This gig comes highly recommended and tickets will sell fast:

Club Débris are a Quebec-inspired folk band based in London, playing high-energy French-Canadian trad music in brazenly major keys. Québécois folk music is the result of many centuries of mixed influences between French, English, Scottish and Irish dance music, and is accompanied by driving, gall...

27/05/2025

If you're looking for a good concert to go to tomorrow then we recommend you check out Jack Badcock in Chapel Arts Center tomorrow night. He's a brilliant guitarist, singer and Entertainer from Scotland

Singer and guitarist, Jack Badcock is a hugely experienced performer, having toured throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, predominantly as frontman and founding member of his multi-award winning, internationally renowned world-folk band 'Dallahan'. He is a critically acclaimed solo a...

29/01/2025

Over the last decade Bath has become a hotbed of Irish music and session culture, attracting many great musicians to live and visit here and nurturing lots of new talent. This rich environment has seen many great bands forming and you can go out and hear traditional music in it's purist form in informal sessions in the many great music pubs dotted around the city. A new addition to the scene is the Hop Pole recently under new management under the umbrella of Abbey Ales.

There is much music happening there and a new Irish session is launching there this Friday with a view to running once a month from 8pm.

You can also hear Trad at the following places every week

Wednesdays The Royal Oak, lower Bristol road 8pm till close

Thursdays The Grapes, Westgate street 8-10:30pm

Sundays The Ram, Widcombe high street 6:30-9pm

Musicians are welcome to all

03/11/2024

Today's session at the The Red Monkey this afternoon is looking set be very special indeed.

25/10/2024

Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.
Therefore followers of the Tao never use them.
The wise prefer the left.
Soldiers prefer the right.

Weapons are instruments of fear: they are not tools of the wise.
They use them only when there is no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to their hearts, and victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing.
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

On happy occasions precedence is given to the left.
On sad occasions to the right.
In the army the general stands on the left, the commander-in-chief on the right.
That means war is conducted like a funeral.
When many people are killed, they should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.
That is why victory must be observed like a funeral.

01/08/2024

We are sad to see the passing of Adrian Shaw a kind and beautiful man who directed the Towpath choir for many years and encouraged so many people to discover the joys of singing and brought that to so many more listeners. A big pillar of the canal community and had made several performances at the Bath Folk Festival including some very memorable performances at the RUH Bath where we brought the festival to those who couldn't get access to music. He got behind this cause whole heartedly. We pay our respects to you on your next Journey

28/05/2024

Bath based outlaws rocked 2 stages at Shindig Festival you can hear their members regularly at the great Irish sessions in The Royal Oak and The Grapes Bath

Well The Barton Street Regulators managed to pull off some daring heists between storms at Shindig Festival this last weekend with reports of some of their gang even getting fit some more jobs as far away as Chipenham, Oxford and London in between. While still managing to make time for some great Hootenannies.

After the great flood most of the members escaped, but it was rumoured that Whylie Pe**te was seen wandering the valley looking for a horse and some phone charge and sleeping in Random cars and eating Rats to survive.

Will he get back to Cramp County and catch up with his buddies? Watch this space to find out the next chapter in their adventures