Join us in welcoming Carrie Martin to launch her mystical new album, Le Fay!
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The show will be opened by John Drakes with songs in the traditional style. Carrie will perform two sets, playing favourites from her previous albums and stunning new music from Le Fay spanning her eclectic mix of folk, blues and prog rock influences.
Join us in welcoming Irish singer-songwriter John Blek back to Pickering during the UK tour for his new album launched earlier this year, The Midnight Ache.
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John’s music is influenced by a varied mix of styles from the traditional folk of Ireland, Britain and the US, to alt. country, to folk-informed pop, delivered by an artist with a voice that could break a heart in two and songs that could heal the most weary of souls.
Join us for a dramatic reading with actor Robert Lloyd Parry who will be in character as M.R. James for this atmospheric evening of classic ghost stories.
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With the electric lights off, Robert will tell two quietly terrifying tales: M.R. James’s ghostly masterpiece ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’ will be beautifully complemented by ‘The Ash Tree’, a story of witchcraft and generational vengeance.
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On this long winter night, hear these two stories just as M.R. James’s friends did in his Cambridge study more than a hundred years ago.
