Three Cane Whale at John Wesley's New Room
Advance tickets from £13 - See event details

A gig on Thursday 20th January. The event starts at 19:30.


Thursday 20th January 2022, 7.30pm
(doors 7pm, cafe bar open from 6.30pm)

Unreserved seating.
Tickets £17 (£15 advance) / Concessions £15 (£13 advance)

Tickets available via www.newroombristol.org.uk or in the shop at John Wesley’s New Room.

As intricate as a team of watchmakers, as spare as a mountain stream, uplifting and elegiac in equal measure, Three Cane Whale’s multi-instrumental acoustic music encompasses both a cinematic sweep and an intimate delicacy, in which “the aroma of muddy leaves and old nettles is almost tangible” (The Observer). Championed early on by Cerys Matthews, 3CW’s music has featured on BBC Radios 3, 4 and 6Music, as well as TV and film.

In 2019, the band recorded its fifth album,”303″, in a set of linked locations in South Somerset. They’ll be summoning up these resonant landscapes in their acoustic set at John Wesley’s New Room, as well as playing a selection from their extensive back-catalogue and some brand new material.

Expect a stage strewn with upwards of 15 instruments (some familiar, such as trumpet, mandolin, & acoustic guitar; some beguilingly unusual, including the eerie bowed psaltery & a late-Victorian Scottish acoustic keyboard called the Dulcitone), allowing for some striking multiple instrumental combinations and an overall soundworld unlike any other.

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