Leather’o will be playing a special one-off gig at Rise – the evening venue of the Bluebird Bakery in Acomb, York on Saturday 31 August. Doors open at 8pm and tickets are £5 – buy them in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/leathero-tickets-974379514357
Dates for your Diary
Thanks to everyone who came along to our election night gig – it was a party atmosphere and great craic!
We’ll be playing at The Snickleway Inn on Goodramgate in York on these Thursdays in the Autumn:
12 September
24 October
14 November
19 December
See you there!
Ceilidh!
We don’t play many Ceilidhs (what we English would call barn dances) but when we have to, we can play the tunes a bit slower and less complicated. And what a Ceilidh it was! Congratulations to Gracie for a great job as caller and thanks everyone for dancing like wild things!!
Updated 2024 gig dates!
Sunday 9 June, 2.30pm – City of York Folk Festival, The Black Swan
Thursday 20 June – The Snickleway Inn, Goodramgate, York
Thursday 4 July – ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL at the Snickleway Inn, Goodramgate, York
Thursday 18 July – The Snickleway Inn, Goodramgate, York
Greenside Festival, Ravenstonedale
We’re looking forward to playing at this great little festival in the Yorkshire Dales. There are a few tickets still available!
Black Swan
We’ve often played in the Wolfe Room, upstairs at the Black Swan but it was great to have the chance to play the whole evening on a club night. Many thanks to Bob Mitchell for these great photos.
Time for a new photo…
It’s several years since we did a photo session with the band. We have lots of gig photos, but here we all are, standing still for once.
Many thanks to our great friend Lesia Gordienko for the wonderful photography.
St Patricks Day 2023
What a banging St Patrick’s night at O’Neills in York! Here are Linds and Rachel bracing themselves for a long, loud gig!
As usual, the bar was rammed when we arrived – not the easiest load-in, but what a great crowd! Lots of dancing to two hours of Trad. Happy St Patrick’s Day!!
Starting the year at The Snickleway Inn
We started the year with our regular gig at The Snickleway Inn in York. We’d been arranging a few new tunes but hadn’t had time to run through them with our percussionist Billy. He did an amazing job of playing a new set that included two time changes, with only a two minute briefing along the lines of “three times through the first tune – the same 12/8 time as America from West Side Story – then it goes into three-three-two for the interlude, then it’s a straight reel but let Linds set the new tempo” He nailed it. Of course he did!
Bob Mitchell came down with the top-notch new Canon camera he was trying out – here are a few of his photos from the night: