Rising star Katherine Priddy returns to Gate To Southwell Festival in 2025

​Kirklington Lakes, July 3 to 6.

One of the rising stars of British roots and acoustic music, Katherine Priddy, will return to Gate To Southwell Festival later this year. An award-winning singer-songwriter, Katherine memorably appeared at GTSF back in 2022, promoting her debut hit folk album The Eternal Rocks Beneath. Since then, she’s toured with diverse acts such as Elbow, The Chieftains and Loudon Wainwright III, and has been acclaimed by folk legend Richard Thompson – who will also headline GTSF 2025 - as “the best thing I’ve heard all year”.

The announcement of Priddy’s appearance at Gate To Southwell Festival 2025 adds to a very strong line-up featuring the Fairport Convention solo guitar star Richard Thompson and former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden, who’ll perform with The Remnant Kings. The Madrid-based roots combo Track Dogs also return to Southwell after very successful visits in 2021 and 2023.

There will be a strong international contingent appearing at the festival, led by influential Senegalese star, Seckou Keita & The Homeland Band, the unique Barcelona World music act El Pony Pisador, who perform everything from Celtic to shanty tunes to Balkan to yodelling, and the enigmatic Texan Ruben Moreno with his electric brand of Cajun/Zydeco music. More traditionally, GTSF will also feature the outstanding musicianship of Sam Kelly & Jamie Francis, The Rosie Hood Band, Banter, who’ve been branded “the future of folk" and She Shanties, a group of vocally strong women who love a “right good sing”.

With over 50 acts performing across four stages, festival goers will enjoy four days of high quality folk roots and acoustic music plus excellent kids entertainment, folk dancing, and ceilidhs, a food and drink festival, poetry, comedy and community spirit in abundance at one of the best small music events in the UK.

For tickets and more information go to https://www.gtsf.uk

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