Stourbridge Folk Festival 2023
21st September - 1st October
A Katie's Secret Garden Event in partnership with Stourbridge Community Development Trust, Stourbridge CLT, Songs of Anger and Redemption and Funny Beeseness supporting the Stourbridge PowerHaus affordable housing development on Enville Street.
Katie's Secret Garden presents
Katie's Secret Garden presents
Martyn Joseph
Thursday 21st September 2023 Doors 7pm
Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters….and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night. He is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning 30 years, 33 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances.
Katie's Secret Garden presents
Jess Silk
Friday 22nd September 2023 Doors 7pm
Jess Silk is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from the Black Country. Her melodic brand of folk/punk music often has her being likened to a female Frank Turner or Billy Bragg, and it gets people sitting up and listening. Armed only with an increasingly sticker-covered acoustic guitar and a distinctive, gravely voice that many don’t expect, Jess appeared at Glastonbury in 2022 and will be supporting the Levellers ( acoustic ) on their 2023 tour.
Funny Beeseness presents
Fitz of laughter
Saturday 23rd September 2023 Doors 7pm
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Katies Secret Garden presents
The Bushburys
Sunday 24th September 2023 Doors 4pm
Eddy’s annual birthday gig with the amazing Bushbury’s rolling back the years both vocally and physically, with Eddy performing his famous jumps on stage, and musically by digging out his Les Paul guitar again this year.
Funny Beeseness presents
Fitz of laughter
Thursday 28th September 2023 Doors 7pm
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Songs of Anger and Redemption presents
The Leylines
Friday 29th September 2023 Doors 7pm
Founded in 2013 by a group of musicians combining their individual musical styles into something that isn’t quite folk, sort of punk but 100% heart-pounding revelry. This unique sound (combined with lyrics ranging from social issues, life on the road and partying with friends) launched the band into the heart of the UK live music community and made them firm favourites of the festival circuit.
Songs of Anger and Redemption presents
3 Daft Monkeys
Saturday 30th September 2023 Doors 7pm
With their quirky and original approach to music, and their passion, intensity and sheer joy of life, 3 Daft Monkeys have gained themselves a large and loyal cult following. Their music is hard to pigeon-hole, mixing and crossing many musical genres from Celtic, Klezmer, Gypsy, Balkan, Latin, Ska, Dub Reggae, Indie, Rock and even a hint of Shostakovich. 3 Daft Monkeys have always maintained an independent and cottage-industry approach to their musical career, and have gained a huge following whilst ploughing their own furrow through the music business, gaining momentum through their live performances and intensive European touring schedule.
Katies Secret Garden presents
Sound of THE Sirens
Sunday 1st October 2023 Doors 4pm
Sound of the Sirens are an acoustic singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & Hannah Wood. Honing their craft over the past decade, Martin & Wood have cemented themselves as firm favourites not only on the Westcountry scene, but nationally, and internationally too. Their status, and fast-growing fan-base is not only testament to the pair’s prowess as songwriters and musicians, but as people too.
