What’s On.
Jessica Pratt
With support from Clarissa Connelly
Saturday 19th July 2025
From the opening seconds of “Life Is,” it’s clear that Here in the Pitch is a very different kind of album from Jessica Pratt. The revered Los Angeles artist has become one of the most singular and distinctive songwriters of her generation, largely through the bewitching sound of her acoustic guitar and vocals: a mystical, elusive blend that conjures deep emotional responses from her devoted (and patient) audience. To introduce her first release in half-a-decade, however, she greets us with neither her breathtaking vocals nor the delicate, sophisticated strum of her guitar. Instead, Pratt’s fourth album begins with a percussion roll that nods instantly to the grand, orchestral style of ’60s pop hits like the Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.”
*Rescheduled from Tuesday 12th November 2024, original tickets remain valid.*
The John Martyn Project
Volume 1 Album Tour
Friday 26th September 2025
One evening at the Jazz Cafe, Camden in 2018, six artists came together in celebration of John Martyn's music. It was an evening of deep connection, not just to John's music, but also with a unique community of John Martyn fans. That night saw the sparks of what was to become 'The John Martyn Project' - an ongoing homage to a truly pioneering and unique musical soul.
Each bringing their own story and relationship to John's music, they continue to keep the spirit of his music alive whilst collecting stories and insights from the crowds they play to.
Robert Forster
Friday 10th October 2025
‘I am enormously excited to be touring with a rock band again. The first time in six years. And not just any rock band - there are the genius Swedish players from my new album ‘Strawberries, recorded in Stockholm. I love the album and I wanted to bring the group with me out on the rock and roll highway. We are wanting to impress.’ - Robert Forster
SETH LAKEMAN
with Benji Kirkpatrick & Archie Moss
Saturday 18th October 2025
Seth was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005 for 'Kitty Jay'. Multiple albums, tours and high-profile collaborations later, the acclaimed folk artist released his latest studio album The Granite Way in February on his own label, Honour Oak Records. It’s a collection of songs recorded alongside a group of longtime collaborators of Seth’s, staying true to his roots and referring to ancient stories that inspired early West Country storytelling.
CHUCK PROPHET &
HIS CUMBIA SHOES
SATURDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2025
April 14, 2025: California singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer Chuck Prophet new collaborative album with Cumbia group ¿Qiensave? called Wake The Dead, released on Yep Roc Records has been his most successful album in over 20 years. An extraordinary and unlikely pairing, Prophet and ¿Qiensave? blend seamlessly together as the collection dives headfirst into the world of Cumbia music, which consumed and comforted Prophet during a recent bout with stage four lymphoma and subsequent recovery. Chuck’s recent UK and EU tours have seen over 15 shows sold out and his biggest ever audiences here toping the US Americana chart tor two weeks. Chuck joined by both members of ¿Qiensave? and James DePrato and Vicente Rodriguez from his band the Mission Express to form Chuck Prophet & His Cumbia Shoes. In support of today’s announcement, they shared the album’s lead single and title track “Wake The Dead,” an anthem that reckons with forces beyond our control while learning to let go, a recurring theme at the core of the album.
The Wandering Hearts
Saturday 14th June 2025
The Wandering Hearts are a British Americana-Folk band known for their enchanting harmonies and heartfelt songwriting influenced by the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and First Aid Kit. Their first two albums, "Wild Silence" (2018) & “The Wandering Hearts” (2021), have received critical acclaim and charted #1 on the UK Americana Charts, as well as amassing over 16 million streams in the UK & USA. Both albums were also nominated for UK Album of the Year at the UK Americana Awards. The UK based band released their third album, Mother, in 2024, playing their biggest US shows to date last summer and charting #3 Official Independent Album Breakers, #7 Official Americana Chart, and #10 Official Record Store Chart.
Cerys Hafana
Saturday 4th October 2025
Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles, mutates, and transforms traditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique qualities of the triple harp, and is also interested in found sounds, archival materials and electronic processing. She comes from Machynlleth, Wales, where rivers and roads meet on the way to the sea.
Cerys has won over audiences from Green Man to the Eisteddfod and from BBC 6 Music Festival to Celtic Connections with her magical, progressive sound.
Edyf, her second album, drew inspiration from material found in the Welsh National Library’s online archive, including fragments of Psalm tunes, hymns about doomsday and philosophical musings on the length of eternity, along with some original compositions, and was selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Ten folk albums of 2022. Cerys’ latest EP, The Bitter, released earlier in 2024 is an innovative exploration of some dark English and Scottish ballads.
Steve Knightley & The Winter Yards Band
Wednesday 5th November 2025
Steve Knightley is set to embark on an exciting new chapter, unveiling his four-piece band for an autumn 2025 tour! Following the outstanding success of his Winter Yards solo tour, Steve joins forces with three incredible musicians—guitar virtuoso David Delarre, master percussionist Evan Carson, and double bass maestro John Parker. With the backing of Midnight Mango, this powerhouse ensemble promises a rich, dynamic live experience, breathing new life into Steve’s critically acclaimed Winter Yards album. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to his music, this is an unmissable opportunity to witness one of folk music’s most revered figures in a bold new setting.
Toddler and Gale
Friday 11th July 2025 - The Pulpit @ The Gate
Stevie Toddler and Daphne Gale are a duo of singer/songwriters looking to share their intimate stories/ harmonies with attentive audiences.
Daphne Gale is a guitarist/ singer based in New York. With a sound at once new and familiar, sophisticated and uncluttered, Daphne blends folk, jazz, and art song seamlessly through intimate, stirring music
Stevie Toddler is a bassist/ singer from Bristol. Her songs incorporate elements from the various musical worlds she's occupied as a bass player, namely jazz, classical and pop, blending intentional lyrics with a mellow and contemplative sparseness.
The two met in Berlin in spring 2024 and are planning to reconnect through touring this summer.
Welsh of the West End
Thursday 11th & Saturday 13th December 2025
The musical theatre super-group Welsh of the West End are back this December, embarking on a dazzling Christmas Tour.
Join them at The Gate, Cardiff for a festive concert like no other, featuring Christmas classics and musical theatre favourites.
Ye Vagabonds
Monday 6th October 2025
Ye Vagabonds is an Irish alt-folk group led by Dublin-based brothers Diarmuid and Brían Mac Gloinn. Having been described as "being at the fore of a new wave of Irish folk", they have won Best Track, Best Album and Best Folk Group at RTE Radio 1 Folk Awards. They have toured relentlessly in recent years across Ireland, the UK, Europe and beyond including (alongside their own headline touring) notable Special Guest slots opening for the likes of Patti Smith, Hozier, Phoebe Bridgers, boygenuius, Dermot Kennedy and Vampire Weekend. A new album is due for release in 2025.
Chris Renzema
Monday 4th August 2025
For Chris Renzema, becoming an artist was something that happened slowly but inevitably. Chris was always drawn to writing and playing songs, but his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan didn’t have much of a music scene. After moving to Nashville in 2015 to pursue a career in music, he's seen slow but steady success. Since then, the musician, songwriter, and producer has released three albums: 2018's Be the Branches, 2020's Let the Ground Rest in 2020 and 2021's Get Out of the Way of Y our Own Heart. Chris’ latest album, Manna, recorded in January at Nashville’s Sound Emporium, represents a culmination of everything he’s done so far. The album reflects on big questions while remaining bothpersonal and accessible.
That relationship between audience and artist is something Chris has honed for years on the road as well. He began regularly touring in 2019 and has been building a steady fan base since, playing iconic venues including Red Rocks and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. While Chris has garnered numerous accolades, including being named on Pandora’s “Artist to Watch” list and earning a GMA Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Y ear, it’s his dynamic live shows that have truly cemented him as a musician on the rise.
Terry Reid
Friday 19th September 2025
In 1968, when Terry Reid was only 18, Aretha Franklin remarked that “there are only three things happening in England: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Terry Reid.” Firmly on the radar of those in the know back in those halcyon days, he still is, several decades later.
Reid’s teenage years found him touring with The Rolling Stones (including their fabled 1969 American tour), Cream, Jethro Tull and Fleetwood Mac, as well as playing prestige slots at festivals such as Isle of Wight and Glastonbury. The story of him having to turn down Jimmy Page to front Led Zeppelin and recommending that he check out a certain other young singer who had recently supported him instead has become legendary. (Jimmy Page and Robert Plant discuss Terry in the new Led Zeppelin documentary 'Becoming Led Zeppelin'
Already a singer of some repute, Reid’s soulful voice and powerful vocal range also earned him the nickname ‘Superlungs’ following his recording in 1969 of the Donovan song ‘Superlungs My Supergirl’ that opened his self-titled second album.
The Unthanks at 20
Tuesday 2nd December 2025
As part of 20th year celebrations, The Unthanks scale back for some intimate shows, supporting today’s best small venues and including memorable ones from their early days. The shows will draw from all parts of their repertoire.How many artists have covered as much musical ground and journeyed so far at The Unthanks over the past two decades? BBC 6 Music regulars, but equally to be found on Radios 2, 3 and 4, the Tyneside band are like magpies, picking up undiscovered jewels, reframing history and drawing on the worlds of folk, jazz, orchestral, electronica and art-rock to create their own unique truth and beauty. They have won Mojo Magazine Folk Album of the Year twice, they were the only British folk representation in The Guardian’s and Uncut’s Best Albums of the Decade (worldwide, all genres), and count amongst their admirers, fellow storytellers including Elvis Costello, Maxine Peake, Michael Sheen, Rosanne Cash, Martin Freeman, Robert Wyatt, Martin Hayes, Nick Hornby, Ben Myers and Dawn French.
THEA GILMORE
Saturday 29th November 2025
A formidable performer on stage, Thea Gilmore is amongst the finest singer songwriters of her generation, a frank and fearless pursuer of home truths who has constantly adapted to remain relevant in the fickle, forever changing music industry. And done so on her own terms. Thea Gilmore has released 20 albums, played hundreds of festivals, and sold out shows across the globe. Her music features in Olivia Coleman’s latest film Joyride (2022), as well as Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead (2021), Blithe Spirit (2020) starring Judi Dench and BAFTA award-winning Bait (2019). She has worked with and won the admiration of Bruce Springsteen, Martha Wainwright, John Cooper Clarke, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Beth Orton and she was personally invited to open for folk legend Joan Baez in the run up to the 2004 US presidential election. Neil Gaiman (writer and showrunner of 2022 Netflix number 1 show, The Sandman) is also a long-standing fan, describing her last album Afterlight (2021) as an ‘emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper… a post mortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices into yours.’ 2023 saw the release of 'She Speaks In Colours', a song for love and loss written as part of BBC Radio 2's critically lauded 21st Century Folk project which features on her new eponymous album .
MOLLY ROBERTS
Saturday 20th December 2025
With her heartfelt vocals, and soaring melodies, Welsh singer-songwriter, Molly Roberts is fast becoming one of the UK’s most exciting new artists. After performing at the European Championships in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium for Channel 4 and supporting GRAMMY-winning songwriter Amy Wadge (Ed Sheeran, Diana Ross) on her UK tour, Molly is now selling out headline shows across the UK. Molly also supported viral Australian artists Cap Carter, Jude York and Welsh artist Bronwen Lewis in 2024. Molly’s single ‘Before’, recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, was featured on BBC Radio Wales’ A-LIST and debuted live on Mahogany Sessions.
Now working on an upcoming Netflix soundtrack with Amy Wadge and touring with her band throughout 2025, Molly’s live show promises intimate storytelling, powerful vocals, and unforgettable atmosphere. Molly is really excited to be performing for the first time at The Gate this December for a beautiful acoustic performance with a live string quartet.
Fievel Is Glauque
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Fievel Is Glauque is an international band led by bandleader and pianist Zach Phillips (US), singer Ma Clément (Belgium), and a rotating cast of musicians spread across the globe. Their sophomore album and label debut on Fat Possum Rong Weicknes was released on October 25th 2024. It is a live album recorded as an octet consisting of three live takes (no click track) collaged together.
Hannah Grace
Celebrating the brand new album Bigger Picture
Friday 5th September 2025
Bigger Picture, the new album from Hannah Grace, is a deeply personal collection of songs that explore love, resilience, and self-discovery reflecting on the beauty of connection, the weight of change, and the courage it takes to embrace life’s uncertainties.
A record that feels both intimate and universal, Bigger Picture is a world of love, nostalgia, quiet strength and finding light in the darkest moments. The album is released in full on August 22nd.
Recorded at Hannah's home studio in the UK via Nashville Tennessee every inch of this album has been carefully curated and put together.
'FLAMENCO FROM SPAIN'
w/REBECA ORTEGA AND RAMON RUIZ
Friday 18th July 2025
Join us for a night of passion, rhythm, and intensity - an unforgettable authentic flamenco performance by prize-winning artists, Rebeca Ortega, an elegant and accomplished dancer from Malaga together with Ramon Ruiz from Granada and trained in Seville. We will be accompanied by leading flamenco singer from Jerez de la Frontera, Carlos Lobo.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in the rich cultural heritage of Andalusia, with traditional and modern flamenco artistry.
