Wainsgate Chapel

01/07/2025

SALUS TRIO
This Sunday 3pm at Wainsgate. More info and ticket link below

An attractive, unusual, varied and multicultural musical programme featuring Chilean tonadas, Argentine tangos, and Brazilian choros alongside an intriguing selection of European works.

Sarah McNulty: flute
Carmen Troncoso: recorders
Andrii Polishchuk: guitar

“A communion of sounds, a delightful concert.”
“Extravagant sounds, a surprising original sound world. Loved the tangos!”
https://wainsgate.co.uk/salus-trio/

30/06/2025

🎻✨ REMORAE live at Wainsgate Chapel! ✨🎻

Get ready for an electrifying afternoon with Remorae, a stunning collective blending folk, jazz, and electronic sounds into a truly unique experience.

Expect lush fiddle and cello lines, gorgeous close-harmony vocals, electric guitar, modular synths, and immersive soundscapes that move from cinematic to glitchy to deeply intimate.

📅 Sunday 20th July, 4 pm
📍 Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge
🎟️ Tickets: £21 / £18 (concessions) / £12 (under 18)

‘Just wondrous. I love the sounds… and that sense of journeying into the unknown they bring to their music’ – Lopa Kathari (BBC Radio 3 Music Planet)

‘Welcomely eclectic’ ‘A unique soundscape and feel’ – Songlines Magazine

‘Folkatron Sessions have done it again’ – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2.

‘Lovely sounds’ – Eliza Carthy

Don't miss the chance to hear them in the stunning setting of Wainsgate Chapel. Come along and let yourself be carried somewhere unexpected. 🌿🎶

👉 Book your tickets now! https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wainsgate

Sunday 20th July 4pm £21/£18/£12 (u18) BUY TICKETS Lauren Spiceley – fiddle and vocals Martha Wiltshire – cello and vocals Joe Woods – guitar, modular synth and vocals Florence Brady – vocals and synths Denis Wouters – electronics ‘Bold, electronic approach’ Kathryn Tickell, B

29/06/2025

🎶 Wainsgate Folk/Acoustic Weekend Fringe! ✨
Join us from 1pm Saturday 19th July for a fantastic line-up of local artists plus a joyful Ceilidh to round off the weekend.

Fringe tickets are just £5 each, so book now and come along to soak up the music, the community, and the beautiful setting of Wainsgate Chapel in Old Town, Hebden Bridge.

🎟 Find out more and book your spot now at https://wainsgate.co.uk/acoustic-weekend-fringe/

Let’s make it a weekend to remember! 💛

29/06/2025

THE CHARLOTTE CARRIVICK BAND - a headliner event of Wainsgate's Folk/Acoustic Weekend.

BOOK NOW! No extra charge!

Join us on Saturday 19th July at 7:30pm for a fantastic evening of modern bluegrass with The Charlotte Carrivick Band, one of the UK’s most exciting acoustic ensembles.

Charlotte is an exceptional flat-picking guitarist, singer and songwriter, and together with her band promises a spellbinding night of toe-tapping tunes, driving rhythms, and rich harmonies.

💫 Support comes from the very talented Lewis Pugh.

📍 Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge
🎟 Tickets: £15/ £12 /£8 U18

Don’t miss this highlight of our Folk & Acoustic Weekend. Grab your tickets and come soak up the summer vibes with us! 🌿

👉 More info & tickets: https://wainsgate.co.uk/charlotte-carrivick/



Charlotte Carrivick Charlotte Carrivick Band: Wainsgate Folk/Acoustic Weekend BGR Events

Saturday 19th July 7.30pm £15/£12/£8 (U18) BUY TICKETS Charlotte Carrivick: guitar Kieran Towers: fiddle Evan Davies: mandolin Eleanor Wilkie: double bass It is with great pleasure that we welcome Charlotte Carrivick back to Hebden Bridge. She and sister Laura performed at the Trades

27/06/2025

🎶 Live at Wainsgate Folk/Acoustic Weekend – Janice Burns & Jon Doran 🎶

📅 Saturday 19th July 2025, 4 pm
📍 Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge
💷 Tickets: £15 (adult) / £12 (concessions) / £8 (under 18)
🎟️ Book now: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wainsgate/

Join us for a special concert by the award‑winning Anglo‑Scottish folk duo Janice Burns & Jon Doran, whose "clever and uncluttered musical storytelling" brings traditional songs to life with crystal-clear harmonies and beautiful interplay between mandolin, bouzouki and guitar.

Their debut album No More the Green Hills has been featured in the Official UK Folk Chart and played on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland.

"They play lovely strings, they have gorgeous harmony arrangements… beautifully understated." Karine Polwart

"Crystal clear voices, great musicianship and an obvious deep love of the tradition." Mike Harding

This headline show is part of Wainsgate Chapel’s Folk/Acoustic Weekend (18–20 July) – and it promises to be a magical Saturday afternoon of music in this stunning setting.

✨ Tag your folk-loving friends and don’t miss it!
Janice Burns and Jon Doran: Wainsgate Folk/Acoustic Weekend BGR Events

26/06/2025

HANNAH SANDERS & BEN SAVAGE
The first headline event of the Folk/Acoustic Weekend coming up very soon!

Friday 18th July 7.30pm at Wainsgate Chapel
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/wainsgate

A touch of ‘Americana’, yet quintessentially English - plus Henry Parker (support)

“Bewitching harmonies, tasteful twin guitars and a dreamy quality that lingers long after the music ends.” – Daily Express

Since emerging in 2016, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage have been defying all conventions of style, genre and compartmentalisation. A touch of ‘Americana’, yet quintessentially English. Traditional, yet contemporary, with their individual writing style. Playful and instinctive, they make music with such panache and natural chemistry it makes perfect sense.

Hannah Sanders has an alluring mystique and a voice of disarming purity that massages your senses. Ben Savage is a singular guitarist with a sound as distinctive as it is innovative. Together their harmonies and unique stage presence shimmer with an infectious passion and joy for the connection music offers.

“Enchantingly beautiful music” – The Mirror

“Arrestingly beautiful” ★★★★★ Songlines

“As close to perfection as it’s possible to be… A Pentangle for the 2020s?” At The Barrier

“An exquisite soundscape, which is the result of passion, precision and unbridled intimacy” ★★★★★ R2 Magazine

Their intimate live show has captivated audiences across the UK, US, Canada & Asia, sharing the stage with the likes of Fairport Convention, Sarah Jarosz, Martin Simpson, Ralph McTell, Seth Lakeman and Gretchen Peters.

“This is folk music for everyone – a masterclass in proficiency, an exercise in individuality and a declaration of love of the folk tradition from both sides of the Atlantic” ★★★★★ Spiral Earth

“A stream of brilliant music – they should be rated among the elite when it comes to UK folk” Maverick

“I’ve loved Hannah Sanders’ voice since first listen and Ben Savage is a master musician. they are both deep into the soul of their music” Mike Harding Folk Show

Hannah and Ben are supported by singer/guitarist Henry Parker whose contemporary take on folk, which he explores via thoughtful yet deeply accomplished guitar playing, unfurls and moves much like the landscape itself – mirroring the unpredictable, yet beautifully flowing, rolling hills and valleys of his native county of West Yorkshire.

“A really excellent young guitarist/ songwriter” Steve Tilston

https://wainsgate.co.uk/sanders-and-savage/

24/06/2025

Your Sunday Sorted:

Poetry, Memoir & Cake at Wainsgate!
Gather at Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge, on Sunday, 27 July at 3 pm for Word at Wainsgate: an afternoon of stirring poetry, memoir, and homemade cake.

Meet the Speakers:

Jason Allen‑Paisant — the Jamaican‑British poet and academic whose Self‑Portrait as Othello won the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes in 2023. His upcoming memoir The Possibility of Tenderness explores land, memory, and Black identity from Jamaican hills to Leeds woods

He is Professor at the University of Manchester and associate editor of Callaloo

John McAuliffe — the Kerry-born Irish poet and Professor of Poetry at Manchester, whose collections include The Kabul Olympics (a TLS & Irish Times Book of the Year), Selected Poems, and National Theatre
He co-edits PN Review and brings a refined yet urgent voice to contemporary poetry.

Details:
📅 Date & Time: Sunday 27 July, 3 pm
📍 Location: Wainsgate Chapel, Old Town, Hebden Bridge (HX7 8SU)

🎟️ Tickets: £12 standard / £10 concession
🫖 Homemade cake & refreshments included!

Expect profound lyricism, narrative finesse, playful intimacy—and a dash of Sunday sweet indulgence. This is more than a reading: it’s a meeting of minds and cultures, with voices that linger long after the final line.

More info:
https://wainsgate.co.uk/jason-allen-paisant-and-john-mcauliffe/


📲 Secure your place now via TicketSource: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wainsgate/t-yaogpmp

👇 RSVP “Going” & invite your friends. This one’s too good to miss!

17/06/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who came to help clean the chapel the other day—such a brilliant crew, and loads of hard work and dirty water!
After months of building work, it’s a whole lot cleaner thanks to all you you.
Come visit—we’ve got loads coming up in the programme. Check out what’s on at www.wainsgate.co.uk ✨💪🧽

14/06/2025

🌿 Poetry and music in the chapel
Saturday 21st June | 7.30pm | Wainsgate Chapel

This one’s special.

Award-winning poet Liz Berry joins forces with musician Ruth Angell for an evening that’s hard to describe, but impossible to forget.

Liz’s poetry is rooted in language, memory, and place—intimate, earthy, and soaring. Her latest work The Home Child is a story of loss, belonging, and resilience, told through verse and inspired by her great-aunt, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada as indentured servants. It’s a story that aches with beauty and truth.

Ruth Angell weaves sound around Liz’s words—delicate, haunting, and full of life. Her music brings folk traditions into conversation with something more expansive. Fiddle, voice, harmonium… it’s not background music. It’s a duet of story and sound.

If you’ve never been to a poetry reading before—come to this. If you think it’s not for you—this might change your mind.

Tea and homemade cake, a chapel full of quiet magic, and two extraordinary artists sharing something real.

🎟 Tickets £12 / £10
📍 Wainsgate Chapel, Old Town, Hebden Bridge
🎫 https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/wainsgate/liz-berry-with-ruth-angell-word-at-wainsgate/e-xzavrv

04/06/2025

This will be fantastic.

03/06/2025

Liz Berry with Ruth Angell – The Home Child
🗓️ Saturday 21st June, 7.30pm | 📍Wainsgate Chapel
🎟️ Tickets £12/10

Poet Liz Berry brings her award-winning novel-in-verse The Home Child to life in this moving, musical performance, accompanied by the hauntingly beautiful fiddle playing of Ruth Angell.

Inspired by the true story of Liz’s great aunt—one of thousands of British children sent to Canada as indentured servants—these poems trace a young girl’s journey from the Black Country to the wilds of Nova Scotia.

Followed by an in-conversation hosted by Kim Moore.
A rare and special evening in a space made for stories like this.

24/01/2025

Check out this view of Wainsgate from above - drone footage taken by .

We are still closed for essential building works, but it's all coming along nicely, and we’ll update you as soon as we have re-opening dates.

There is lots of exciting stuff planned, so keep yopur eyes peeled for news of a great programme of activities and events for 2025 coming soon.