31/03/2025
live at The Granary Arts Cafe 🎵
8th April | Doors 19:00 | £15 tickets in bio
Virginia Kettleis the very heart of the multiaward-winning folk-rock band Merry Hell.Her songs, spirit and energies have helped drive the band ever upwards, giving asignificant outlet to her creativity, providing anthems such asBury Me Naked,which had20,000 fans swaying in a Cropredy field, as well asirresistible dancing tunes, and slicesof wry humour as seen in‘VIOLET’,her solo tour-de-force during the band set, whereshe often forgoes the need for amplification and wanders freely among the audience.Her solo album‘No Place Like Tomorrow’was acritical and popular success, hitting theheights of No.1 in the Amazon Folk Charts within days of its release.
As a prolific writer of songs, Rolling Folk gives Virginia the chance to share a variety ofsongs not included in Merry Hell’s sets. It is not a replacement for the band, but anadditional outlet for her creativity and energy. Offering the same level of songwritingexcellence as Merry Hell, but a different, more intimate feel, plus additional musicalexplorations, Rolling Folk surrounds Virginia with a fabulous and interesting selection of
players, particularly multi, multi-instrumentalist Chris Lee, (Full House, Time Bandits,Family Mahone, Galleon Blast, Rad Co., etc, etc etc) and percussionist, whistle playerand flautist, Mark Wooley (Ade Edmondson's Bad Shepherds, Full House, sessionmaster and more) and more recently ace fiddle player Clare‘Fluff’Smith, again a(young) veteran of numerous projects, including a stint with The Incredible String Band.Add in Virginia’s bandmateand husband John, all giving breadth and depth to hermusical and lyrical visions. She has been described by Folk North West magazine as‘The best thing to happen in British Folk for years’and who are we to argue?
Rolling Folk’s debut album“East Of Elsewhere”gained fabulous reviews and significantradio airplay both within the UK,and around the world.
