Thursday 17th July 2025 at 7:30

_{Singers' and Musicians' Night}

_{Your chance to sing a song}

_{Or play a tune}

_{Or just}

_Listen

_{£1 entry for all}

_{Doors open 7pm}

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<sub>A collection of folk songs about people, groups and special places in Bradford District.

To mark Bradford City of Culture in 2025 the Topic Folk Club is gathering together folk songs about the story of the people and/or groups who work to make Bradford District a welcoming and supportive place.</sub>

_{Please send any observations and questions to bd25topic@gmail.com}

_{See the 40 songs uploaded so far at Topic SWABA - a few more have been added in February.}

 

_{THE TOPIC'S HOME is at Hullabaloo, a couple of minutes walk from Groove Pad, nearer the station. There is parking on Crowgill Street. See MAP for venue location. Hullabaloo site: hullabalooshipley.org.uk/ Hullabaloo's Facebook page: facebook.com/PuttingTheHipInShipley/}
 

Coming Soon

_{Bradford is City of Culture this year - Bradford Booking in the listing below indicates when a guest artist from Bradford has been booked to appear.}

24 July

_{Enda Kenny}

_{Dublin-born folksinger Enda Kenny is one of Australia's favourite festival performers. As a storytelling songwriter his ability to instantly engage audiences is well known, creating evocative characters drawn from life that pull you in to their stories and songs that trigger memories you didn't know you had. He has the migrant's eye for his adopted landscape, has travelled widely across and around it and found the word pictures to bring it to life like you are travelling with him.}

_{He has headlined festivals in Hong Kong and the UK, opened for the McGarrigles at Sidmouth Arena, toured through Germany and Holland, and played thousands of venues from Folk in the Bath and The Albert Hole to The Drunken Poet. He is equally at home around the campfire at Nariel Creek, Australia's longest running festival.}

_{Kenny is a cracking solo entertainer, the raw emotion of songs like Heart Tattoo and Vigil are beautifully balanced by hilarious observations about everyday life and human frailty. Make sure you catch him.}

_{On small stages to intimate audiences or large stages to festival audiences he always holds the crowd in the palm of his hand. Witty and intelligent songwriting and a brilliant night's entertainment - Eleanor McEvoy}

_{Enda is regarded by many as the best folk singer-songwriter in Australia. He showcases his brilliant songs during hugely entertaining live performances...Heart Tattoo matches wonderful stories of local characters and places with strong melodies. The album has garnered high praise from reviewers, including likening Enda's lyrical skills to those of Leonard Cohen. - House on The Hill}

<sub>The finest Irish songwriter living overseas - Colum Sands

https://wegottickets.com/event/652488</sub>

_{Entry £9 (£6 members)}

_{Doors open 7pm}
 

31 July

_{Singers and Musicians}

_{A chance for you to sing a song or play a tune or just listen.}

_{£1 Entry}

_{Doors open 7pm}
 

7 Aug

_{Singers and Musicians}

_{A chance for you to sing a song or play a tune or just listen.}

_{£1 Entry}

_{Doors open 7pm}
 

14 Aug

_{Otra Support: Kim Ralls
Bradford Booking}

_{Otra are Rahel Guzelian and Tony Charnock, an acoustic duo with a repertoire of original songs and folk-style covers with guitar, whistle and fiddle accompaniment. They have been performing around the Bradford area and beyond for the past 20 years.}

_{Support: Kim Ralls}

_{After cutting his teeth in solo projects and a succession of bands - including The Learning Curve, Kaos Engyn and The Penhill Poachers - before discovering English folk music and the wealth of stories contained within, Kim Ralls began to weave his own stories – some real, some fictional – into songs that have resonated with every audience he’s played to.}

_{Born in Norwich in 1986, Kim grew up surrounded by his parents’ music collection, a wild melting pot of genres including prog-rock, soul, blues and much more, and a fascination with his dad’s battered old acoustic guitar, now Kim’s main instrument, along with a cello-mandolin built by the late David Oddy of Exeter.}

_{Choosing to go solo just before the Covid pandemic, Kim wrote and recorded his well-received debut album, Terra Incognita, at home during lockdown.}

_{Great story-song tradition… played and sung with real passion. A strong and expressive voice that really delivers – Steve Pledger}

<sub>https://wegottickets.com/event/652490

Entry £9 (£6 members)</sub>

_{Doors open 7pm}
 

21 & 28 Aug and 4 Sep

_{Singers and Musicians}

_{A chance for you to sing a song or play a tune or just listen.}

_{£1 Entry}

_{Doors open 7pm}
 

_{11th September Bradford Booking Double Header: Hazjak and Pete Dilley
https://wegottickets.com/event/652492}

_{18th September Singers and Musicians}

_{25th September Becky Mills}

_{2nd October Singers and Musicians}

_{9th October Bradford Booking Den Miller support Ben Ashton}

_{16th October Singers and Musicians}

_{23rd October Sunjay}

_{30th October Union Jill}

_{6th November Singers and Musicians}

_{13th November Bradford Booking Double Header: Reuben and the Bridge and Chris Manners} 

_{20th November Singers and Musicians}

_{27th November Jon Palmer Acoustic Band}

_{4th December Singers and Musicians}

_{11th December Bradford Booking Plumhall}

_{18th December Singers and Musicians}

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