Folk Week Presents is a new monthly addition to our music calendar, featuring high quality folk singers and musicians. To be held on Sunday evenings, each month will feature a different performer from the world of folkmusic, from traditional to modern, including English, Celtic and international sounds. Featuring top notch vocalists and performers from across the county and beyond, this series is brought to you directly from Broadstairs Folk Week in conjunction with Broad Reach Records.  Celebrating 60 years in August 2025, all proceeds from our Folk Week Presents shows will benefit the main August festival.

9 March

Folk Week presents: Gilmore & Roberts

plus Bob Kenward, Pip Ives and more

Contemporary folk/acoustic duo Gilmore & Roberts combine award- winning songwriting with astounding musicianship and their trademark harmonies to create a powerful wall of sound.

Nominated three times at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Katriona Gilmore (fiddle, mandolin) and Jamie Roberts (guitar) met while studying at Leeds College of Music and released their debut album in 2008.

Since then, the duo have toured Canada and mainland Europe, played some of the UK’s biggest acoustic festivals, toured with folk rock legends Fairport Convention and won countless accolades for their genre-spanning work. Gilmore & Roberts released their sixth studio album, Documenting Snapshots, in September 2023.

Book now: 17.00 - 19.00

bar opens 4pm. Tickets £17.50 or £15 for Friends of The Horsebridge / Friends of Folk Week.

Book now

13 April

Folk Week presents: Singing Loins

plus floor spots and MC

Book now: 17.00 - 19.00

bar opens 4pm. Tickets £17.50 or £15 for Friends of The Horsebridge / Friends of Folk Week.

Book now

Authentic Raw folk from the Medway Delta

The Singing Loins are a bare-knuckle 4/5 piece outfit, operating on the fringes of folk, punk, music hall, melodrama & buffoonery. The Loins have been loitering around the pubs of Medway for 30 years now. Ever enduring outsiders, it’s possible they are now the world’s longest serving, truly amateur, original musical group. They’re certainly amongst the bloody best.

2024 saw the release of their new album (entitled “Twelve”) on premier punk & indie label, Damaged Goods, a victorious tour of the Balkans, and 2 more album releases with Billy Childish under their North Kent Folkways Revival moniker.

Through births, deaths & marriages, the cast changes but they remain unambitious, untainted, uncorrupted, and above all else, still doing it for the reason they started doing it - love. So, ladies & gentlemen, don’t spoil things now. Whisper your astonishment and keep them firmly under your fedoras.

I thank you.

Bobby Two-Cans Esq.

Gillingham-Upon-Medway.

A benefit series for Broadstairs Folk Week, registered charity 1104684