Who would have thought we would get such a great crowd on a Wednesday night in January? The bar was completely full – well done, To The Blue! And a surprising number of people were dancing!
Many thanks to Gavin at The Bison Coffee House for including Leather’o in his twelve York’s Finest tracks in the excellent publication One & Other!
Leather’o endorses The Bison Coffee House as the thinking man’s choice – probably the best coffee in York. We will be there within minutes of posting this.
Have a listen to a few tunes we recorded at a wedding gig last year on our Listen page.
We’re delighted to announce our first gig at one of York’s great, relatively new music venues – The Volunteer Arms. Have a look at our gig list on the right of this page – see you soon!
What a great gig! Thanks to everyone who crammed into the fabulous upstairs room at the Black Swan in York on Saturday night and the trail of people down the stairs, trying to get in! Here’s a fashionably low-res pic of one of the fabulous acts – Over The Yard Arm: https://www.facebook.com/OverTheYardarm
We particularly liked Bryony’s version of Jolene, Steve absolutely loved Aimie’s rocking set, I enjoyed Sarah more than ever (best rendition I’ve ever heard of “One For the Crow…”) and OTY were great – singalong, bass recorder, explosives and all!
We’re gig hunting and the 2014 calendar’s filling up – see you soon and Happy New Year!
2013 has been a great year for Leather’o – we’ve had such a great time! We’ve done more gigs than ever, three weddings, The Galtres Festival for the first time with this line-up (to add to the considerable festival experience among the band members!) and we’ve added lots of new material – some original and some arrangements of traditional tunes. We’ve made new friends and played in new venues. The on-stage energy has never dropped!
A huge thank you to everyone who’s come and listened, danced and stamped their feet! Special thanks to the fellow musicians who have shared the bill with us (or us with them) and to the promoters and venues who have put us on.
We hope to see as many of you as possible at our last gig of 2013 at The Black Swan in York on Saturday 28 December. Our gigs are always shown on the home page of our website and 2014 is filling up already – see you at a gig, soon!
Happy New Year!
Angela, Bob, Elaine, Linds and Steve – Leather’o
Tickets for our special festive shindig on 28th December are selling well.
Any tickets bought online will now be for collection on the door rather than posted.
Happy holidays
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A great trio gig by the gang (while the other two were away for the weekend). How many encores?!?
How many of The Guardian’s Top Ten Craft Beer Pubs in York have Leather’o played in (or drunk in, for that matter)? Well, quite a few, as it turns out! And we have an honorary member working at one of them!
Tickets here!
We wouldn’t usually publicise a gig so far in advance but we’re really excited about this one. We’ve got a tradition of putting on a gig between Christmas and New Year and this year it will be in the upstairs room at The Black Swan, famous for hosting its award winning folk club.
We have some of our great friends like Aimie J Ryan and Sarah Dean playing, plus singer song writer Bryony Drake and the fantastic Over The Yardarm. We have so many people playing that we’ll be starting early at 6pm.
It’s a very intimate room so we are selling tickets in advance, they cost £5 + 70p P&P.
Now, having pasted in all those links, I can work out the league table of which of us has the most LIKES on Facebook. So, the competitive bit me is thinking competitive thoughts…
Playing all acoustic, traditional instruments in venues from pubs to major festivals, extensively reworking tunes and songs from the Irish, Scottish and Eastern European traditions.
