The first two sessions in our new Sunday Folk series. Enjoy relaxed Sunday afternoons of music with some of the finest folk acts around.
Seating will be informal tables and chairs, there will be a licensed bar, and the Whistle Stop Cafe will be serving hot and cold drinks as well as cakes and savouries to enjoy with the music.
Jim Causley (top photo) is a folk-singer, award winning songwriter, musician, proud Devonian and all-round entertainer. He grew up in a wassailing village not far from Sidmouth Folk Festival and sang with Wren Music before heading to Newcastle University to study on their brand new degree course in Folk and Traditional Music.
He rose to prominence singing with The Devil’s Interval and Mawkin:Causley as well as touring with Waterson:Carthy and David Rotheray. In recent years his work has focused on his musical settings of poems by his relative Charles Causley, penning his own songs and reviving lost gems from his home county.
“A voice in a million” Geoff Lakeman.
Jon Loomes is an English traditional singer and guitarist. A highly experienced performer, Jon is well known for his work with BBC Folk Award Nominees Pilgrims’ Way and notorious Belgian surrealists Heretique.
Passionate about folksong, his solo album ‘Fearful Symmetry’ quickly became a cult classic. As a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, he has featured on many recordings, and has worked with some of the biggest names in British folk music. As a soloist, he has appeared at all the major British folk festivals and played at folk clubs and concert venues nationally and internationally.
Drawing from the English folk song tradition, he engages with audiences, encouraging them to join in with a chorus, before hitting them between the eyes with an energised delivery of an epic ballad Recognised primarily for his accomplishments as a guitarist, Jon weaves magical, sensitive accompaniments in the finest traditions of Martin Carthy and Nic Jones.