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Our 2026 programme of music is shaping up nicely, and our first gig of the season is set to be a fresh and exciting way

… Which festive folk album will take home the crown in our Christmassy competition? We’ve all got a Christmas folk album that we love to

Live to your Living Room has won £10,000 of funding from the new CreaTech Frontiers programme, which we will use to revolutionise our gig visuals.

If you’re anything like us, you’ll know at least one person who you don’t know what to buy for Christmas. Socks? Don’t need them. Chocolate?

It’s always a wonderful feeling when you save money, whether that’s a surprise discount on your supermarket shop or taking advantage of a free electricity

We’d like to welcome David Agnew to the Live to your Living Room team! As our Programme Booker, David is responsible for sourcing both emerging

There are lots of great people working behind the scenes at Live to your Living Room, making sure our shows run without a hitch, driving

At our summer team away day the Live to your Living Room team spent an afternoon working with Devlin Shea from Ideation Coaching, talking about

One of the reasons we launched Live to your Living Room was to empower people who couldn’t travel to gigs and enable them to enjoy

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Live to your Living Room team! The role description is available in a variety of formats linked

Live to Your Living Room has been granted funding from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Live to your Living Room are

The Furrow Collective will be joining us on Sunday 1st December, live from Sheffield with thanks to Live At Sam’s. This year, they’re marking a

Recently, Live to Your Living Room was granted funding by Arts Council England to help support the work that we do. Getting this recognition means

Tom Kitching will be joining us on Monday 16th September, as he launches his new book and album, ‘Where There’s Brass’, along with Nordic mandola

SykesMartin will be joining us for a special Leap Day gig on Thursday 29th February, from Live At Sam’s in Sheffield. Ahead of the gig,

Universally acclaimed as one of the finest ever acoustic and slide guitar players, and a fine banjo-picker to boot, Martin Simpson is a remarkable storyteller:

From September 2022 to October 2023, Live to your Living Room worked in partnership with Folk Arts Oxford on an Arts Council England funded project

Grace Smith Trio have just released their debut album, Overleaf, and now they’re taking it on tour! They’ll be joining us on 19th October, and

Melrose Quartet are releasing their new album, ‘Make the World Anew’, later this month, and you’re all invited to the launch party! We’ll be livestreaming

Karine Polwart has always been a fantastic supporter of the work we do here at Live to Your Living Room, and we’re thrilled to have

Here at Live to your Living Room, we would really like to improve the service we give to Disabled, Neurodivergent, and chronically ill people, or

George Sansome & Matt Quinn are both well-known faces on the folk scene, but recently they’ve come together as a brand-new duo! Their debut album,

Hack-Poets Guild is an exciting new collaboration between Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Their new album, Blackletter Garland, is taking the folk scene

We’re delighted to have Sam Kelly joining us for a rare solo gig on 26th February. Ahead of the gig, we caught up with him

US vocal harmony group Windborne will be joining us live online on 25th January as part of their UK tour. Ahead of the gig, we

Ellie Gowers is currently touring her debut album, Dwelling by the Weir, a stunning collection of songs rooted in her native Warwickshire. Ellie will be

One of the things we like most about our online gigs is that you can do so many things during the concert that you wouldn’t

Lizzy Hardingham is off on tour with her new album, How Did We Get Here?, and she’ll be sharing some of these new songs with

Alex Cumming is a familiar face here at Live to Your Living Room, but this Autumn will see him moving into a new role as

Live to your Living Room and Live at Sam’s will be co-hosting the official launch of Nancy Kerr‘s latest album, ‘The Poor Shall Wear the

We’ll be marking the changing of the seasons with Lisa Knapp on 2nd May! Ahead of the gig, we caught up with her to find

This weekend, we’re heading back to our roots at Folk Weekend: Oxford, with three hybrid gigs set to open the festival up to the world!

We’re looking forward to welcoming Lunatraktors on 8th February. Truly original and absolutely mesmerising, this unique duo are putting their own spin on tradition. We

Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer will be joining us for a very special online Burns Night celebration on 26th January. We caught up with them

The Wilderness Yet will be joining us for an evening of tunes and gorgeous harmony singing on 10th January. We caught up with them to

Janice Burns & Jon Doran will be treating us to a cosy evening of some of their favourite winter folk songs on 15th December. We

GreenMatthews and Jude Rees will be taking us on a whistlestop tour through 600 years of festive music history on Sunday 28th November with A

Gadarene will be getting us dancing around our living rooms on Friday 26th November. We caught up with them to find out more about what’s

The Story Song Scientists will be dazzling us with their latest findings on Thursday 11th November. We caught up with them to find out all

Green Ribbons will be joining us on Tuesday 9th November for an evening celebrating unaccompanied song. Ahead of the gig, we caught up with them