live music

• Music / Reviews

  Review: the Often Herd, Downend Folk & Roots – ‘Dust motes through sunbeams”

  Bluegrass from Newcastle warms up a wet South West

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• News / music festival

  Bob Vylan top this year’s Shindig lineup

  The festival is going big and bold in its 12th year

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• News / Dot to Dot

  Dozens more acts added to Dot to Dot lineup

  The second wave announcement takes the lineup close to 100 acts

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• News / folk

  Bristol Folk Festival scores major coup with biggest lineup yet

  A new flagship concert brings three of the most compelling voices of modern folk to the Beacon

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Stand High Patrol, the Boxing Gym – ‘Devotion to the stacks’

  Firmly Rooted Soundsystem keep the bass-heads happy until 4am

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Sofar Sounds, Bristol Old Vic – ‘A spectacular coup’

  Three bands take to the stage where countless legends of theatre have trodden the boards

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• Music / Get To Know

  Get to Know: Rita Lynch

  The punk trailblazer on Bristol then and now, and the personal story behind her new record

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• Music / Reviews

  Review: Ebi Soda, Strange Brew – ‘Cosmically otherworldly’

  Contemporary jazzers swing by on their first ever tour

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