The band members are mostly back from their travels – we’re just waiting for the safe return of Jack, our mandolin player from the Far East. Soon after our fiddle player, Rachel arrived back from Borneo we played an impromptu late night session with a couple of guest percussionists at Linds’ birthday party. This is what it looked like before the night really got going:

We were sad to hear about the cancellation of the Galtres Festival, where we would have been playing on Saturday night.

Summer’s here and we’ve got a full diary of gigs for the next few months – some at new venues like The Fossgate Social in York, some at favourite venues like The Snickleway Inn in York and The Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold, plus several more festivals in York and The East Riding. We’re also playing a private party in September – don’t forget you can book us for your private event!

Meanwhile, Jack our mandolin player is in Cambodia for a couple of months [stop press! he’s back!], Rachel our fiddle player is off to Borneo and Angela continues to tour with Mostly Autumn. At least four of us will be playing at all our gigs and we’re hoping a jet-lagged Jack will be back in time for our set at Galtres / Parklands Festival – 9.45pm on Saturday night in The Buzzard Bar for a longer (45 minute) set than last year! [Oops! Galtres is no more – cancelled!]

We still have copies of our EP Five available that you can buy at any of our gigs or from Amazon or iTunes (or stream from Google Play, Spotify or Napster). All our gig dates are shown on the forthcoming gigs page of this website and on our Facebook page. See you soon!

Photographs courtesy of Yellow Mustang:

Aha! The new art work is ready! We still have a few hundred of the old posters to use up, but here’s the new look!

Our support gig at Fibbers in York was a great night out! We’ll be back there on 5 November, supporting Mad Dog Mcrae

Photo courtesy of Yellow Mustang.

Thanks to Chris Mackins for taking some lovely photos at our gig at The Fossgate Festival last weekend – I seem to be the only one wearing any shoes!

Leather’o will be playing at York’s Black Swan Folk Festival around 4.45pm on Saturday 6 June, in the big marquee. It’ll be a great weekend of music – come along to listen to us and to enjoy the huge range of other talent!

We’re delighted to have some up to date photos, courtesy of Marc at Yellow Mustang. We’ll be using these in upcoming postings and we may even see a refresh of our poster and logo.

We’re visiting new venues and returning to some of our favourite haunts this Spring. Here’s a photo, courtesy of Makiko Cato Brookes, from our first gig at The Basement Bar at York’s City Screen:

Rachel our fiddle player was away in Scotland, so only the four of us in this photo.

We will be back at The Fauconberg Arms in Coxwold on 18 April, and returning to The Snickleway Pub in York for the first time in several months on 23 April.

May sees the festivals begin with us playing at several new events in The East Riding. We’re also back at The Black Swan Folk Festival in June.

We’re preparing some new material, too. We’ve got a couple of new slip jigs (those are the ones in 9/8, but not as difficult as they sound), a new song and a couple more original tunes in the pipeline. We’ll be giving them a trial run at an open mic or two in York over the coming weeks.

Please keep an eye on our calendar (to the right on this page) and come along!

We’re delighted to have been booked to play at a handful of festivals this summer including Cleethorpes, Hedon, Freedom Festival in Hull, Cornucopia, Selby Little Festival and a few others where we’re just awaiting formal confirmation. They will all be in our band calendar on the right hand side of this page. It’s looking like a great summer ahead!