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A show from Jolie Holland is always a cause for celebration as the much-travelled multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter comes towards the end of the UK leg of her tour with dates in Ireland to follow. The venue is Piccadilly’s Neon 194, a slick cocktail bar with the music room in the basement. The room is wider than it is deep – an upmarket 100 Club – with chairs laid out in rows from the stage almost to the back of the room.

A moving set of well-performed songs laced with resilience. Ava McCoy is still in her twenties and "Dragonfly" is her second full-length album after “Moss On The Celling” (2022) and an EP, “Closer To The Bugs”. Born and raised in New York, but with family based mainly in the Pacific Northwest, with whom she spent her summers, McCoy has written and performed songs since a young age.

Renowned singer-songwriter Jolie Holland has announced a series of UK dates in the autumn of 2025.  The shows mark a welcome return after her last tour here in the early Spring of 2024. Holland’s latest album, "Haunted Mountain", was released in October 2023 and was partly co-written with Big Thief’s Buck Meek, who also appeared on the album.  Several of the pair’s co-writes also featured on Meek’s album of the same name – including the title tracks(s).

Chatham County Line (CCL), the four (now three) piece string band from Raleigh in North Carolina, have had a pretty impressive career, starting with their self-titled debut on Bonfire Records in 2003 through to their latest “Hiyo”, which was reviewed very positively here in February 2024. They have been signed to Yep Roc Records for twenty years and continue touring albeit less seen this side of the Atlantic than previously.

Mark De-Lisser hosts a special celebration of gospel worship from Union Chapel, London.

Neko Case’s memoir provides a starkly honest picture of her early life as well as the route by which she came to be the artist and the person she is today.  The book takes us from her birth in Virginia to parents she says were totally unsuited to their role and subsequent early relocation to Washington state, where she spent the vast majority of her childhood.

In the beginning there was "A Prairie Home Companion" a live radio variety show presented by Garrison Keillor from the Fitzgerald Theatre in St Paul, Minnesota.  By 2016, Keillor was ready to hand over to a new, younger host.  The announced replacement was mandolin legend Chris Thile (Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers and more). A year later, Keillor had been the subject of misconduct allegations, and it was decided to change the name of the show – which was closely associated with Keillor – to "Live From Here".