The Cube to host a meeting of contemporary troubadours & traditional music
Posted on: 11 Apr 2024‘The Song Has No Ending’ is a new occasion that will bring together songwriters, instrumentalists and traditional music in the warmth of The Cube’s wood-panelled, low-lit auditorium.
Cube Folk present ‘The Song Has No Ending’ on Saturday 4 May 2024.
Bristolian folk fans can expect spellbinding sets from Daisy Rickman, Özcan Ate? and Pippa Craggs, Molly Linen and Danny Riley. Before, between and after these sets, turntable troubadours will be spinning a fine selection of folk and roots music from around the world.
Tickets for this event are priced at £12, with concessions available for £9 – grab yours, HERE.
Cornwall native and contemporary folk singer/visual artist Daisy Rickman will be playing her debut Bristol show at this event. Celebrated in The Guardian’s ‘New Music for 2024’ series, Daisy’s is part of a growing Cornish movement towards music that imbues the rich cultural heritage and language of Kernow with contemporary verve.
Currently in exile and living in Bristol, Özcan Ate? a gifted young Turkish baglama player who will be joined on stage by classically trained musician Pippa Craggs, with both part of Bristol Dovetail Orchestra. Özcan’s lyrical voice blends with Craggs’s light, poetic flute to create a sound that is once original and traditional.
Molly Linen is a Bristol-based songwriter from Shropshire who sings of the small details she observes in the natural world. With hushed lyrics and gentle plucked melodic guitar lines, Molly is a rising star who has had airplay on 6 Music, BBC Radio Scotland and Soho Radio.
Danny Riley has emerged from Bristol’s burgeoning live music scene, with a wild and explorative instrumental finger guitar style that draws on traditional British and French music, alongside jazz, psychedelic and the avant-garde.
Cube Folk will present the inaugural ‘The Song Has No Ending’ on Saturday 4 May 2024 with tickets available to purchase here.
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Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.
