8pm  Earlybird ticket £16 / £18 Standard

This Winter Solstice join multi award-winning contemporary folk artists Jackie Oates and John Spiers for a heart-warming festive concert, perfect for the Christmas season and the night of the winter solstice. Their brand new album, ‘A Midwinter’s Night’ will be released just in time for the tour and will be available to purchase on CD, alongside other seasonal merchandise and gifts. The duo perform traditional seasonal music including Christmas carols and tunes from England and beyond; audiences particularly appreciate Jackie and John’s music as a beautiful and joyful antidote to the materiality that can be a feature of this time of year.

‘Oates & Spiers left the gaudy, commercialised crass-ness at home … theirs is a Christmas for all’  Bristol 24/7

Jackie Oates is a mainstay of English traditional music and regarded as one of the country’s best loved folk performers. ‘There’s a sweetness and melancholy to her voice that is like no other, and for which there is no known formula with which to replicate it.’ (Songlines). John Spiers, known better in folk circles as Squeezy, is one of the top melodeon players in the UK and is well known for his long-standing duo partnership with Jon Boden in Spiers & Boden as well as his contribution to the massively popular Bellowhead.