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!

Ok, I know we’ve been saying this for a while now, but we ARE getting some new photos done! If you want to be in the crowd scenes, come along to Fibbers on 26 May.

We’re delighted to announce our new EP “Five” – come along to one of our gigs and bring a fiver!

Alternatively, you can buy it from iTunes or Amazon, or listen to it on Spotify, Napster, Deezer, GooglePlay…

You can also hear a few tracks from it on our Listen Page and our Soundcloud page

Sorry that we went quiet in the run-up to Christmas, just when we had some great gigs… We were a bit distracted as two of the band were getting married. On the day, we played a few tunes with an eight-piece line up. Now, that was a great sound – there are two more percussionists behind the man in the Vivian Westwood suit! The battle of the two fiddles was the highlight of the whole day for everyone apart from the bride and groom – they were rather pleased about being married!

OK, we’ve got the master and the artwork – just need to give it one more listen before we send the EP off to be done… UPDATE: the finished CDs should arrive in time for this weekend’s gig at The Fauconberg Arms, Coxwold. Hurrah!

OK, only one picture – more to follow!

We’ve got the rough mixes back from our recording session at Crooked Room – you’ll find them right here as soon as they’re mixed and mastered!