Greenbank Folk Club Presents - Urban Folk Quartet - a concert at St Anne's Church, Eastville

Over their fifteen plus years on the international folk scene, UFQ have achieved something remarkable - garnering a reputation as a crowd-pulling, energising act, whilst also maintaining fierce commercial and musical independence.
Their output is built on hearty fiddle-led music that draws heavily from celtic dance forms and traditional song - but from there on in it is unlike any folk band you’ve ever heard. UFQ’s approach to the folk ethos is to embrace any and every influence that genuinely makes sense of their time and place and makes sense in their music. From funk grooves to middle-eastern melodies, afrobeat to north Indian rhythms.

The first of those phenomenal fiddlers is Galician Paloma Trigás, who has shared stages and recorded with the likes of The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon and Altan, during her tenure touring the stadiums of the world with Spain’s biggest folk star, Carlos Nuñez. The second is Joe Broughton (Albion Band, Dempsey/Broughton, Joss Stone) long established on the folk scene as the fieriest English fiddler and showman of his generation. Also an exceptional guitarist and mandolin player, in UFQ Joe deftly shares multi-instrumentalist duties (often mid-song) with Dan Walsh. Touted as one of the finest banjo players in the country as well as a gifted singer and guitarist, Dan (Seth Lakeman Band, The Levellers, Walsh & Pound) joined UFQ in 2014, as guitarist, oud player and founding member Frank Moon stepped out of touring life. The lineup is completed by Tom Chapman, (Jacqui McShee, While & Matthews) widely considered to be the most accomplished and influential cajonero the UK has to offer.

With the vibrant and diverse Birmingham music scene as a fundamental influence, UFQ is a truly international band. Foreign touring and globally-influenced music have been at the heart of what they do since day one, when in June 2009 their first four gigs took place in four different countries.

Since then UFQ’s trail has blazed across the world, playing everything from secluded coves to 30,000 capacity festival fields, igniting audiences and winning them a devoted fan base from The Bay of Biscay to the edge of The North Pacific. UFQ's cross-genre appeal sees them occupying a singular position, spanning scenes and continents and sharing bills with the most eclectic range of artists.

"UFQ are impossibly wonderful" - fRoots

"Seriously exceptional musicians" - R2 (Rock 'n' Reel)

"Up there with the best of them - amazing musicians." - BBC Radio 2 Folk Show

Greenbank Folk Club is committed to developing our access & inclusion in every aspect of what we do. Please get in touch if you have any particular access needs or would like to make a suggestion for how we can do things better in the future. We encourage you to fill out our survey after each event so we can hear your thoughts - QR code available in the venue.

£12 and £15 tickets are available in advance - tickets on the door will be £18. We strongly advise that you book in advance if you'd like to attend as we cannot guarantee there will be door tickets available if the event sells out.

Please tell your friends and share this event - live music and dancing only takes place with the support of the community around us.

We would like to thank our partner projects, The Greenbank, EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society) and Arts Council England for their support in this project.

This event will take place at St Anne's Church, Easton, Bristol and will be seated with some standing space. Seats are unallocated, first come first serve.

Notice to wheelchair & mobility scooter users - we have ramp access to the venue if needed and can reserve you a space at the front (we advise that you arrive promptly). It is worth noting that St Anne's Church doesn't currently have proper disabled toilets available. There is a toilet available on level access but it is a fairly small, standard cubicle without much turning space. We are working with St Anne's Church to address this problem for the future.

We also keep the lighting fairly low during the shows which can hinder mobility for some people. If this will be a problem for you please get in touch ahead of the show and we'll see what we can do to help.

No strobe effects will be used during the show but stage haze will be used as part of the lighting system. Stage haze cannot affect your lungs or voice but has been raised in the past as something worth mentioning prior to the event.

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Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio) — Read more — Read less