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Who: The Foehn Effect !https://files.teamup.com/13511926/attachment/01M21BCCKE118CN2SZ3Z9T9FQ8/preview/image.png?hash=10841ffe0cb0366ab720c759502bf8648271091d84df631eb9d048c8d70b5553 The Foehn Effect is a contemporary folk act from Aberystwyth, Wales. Inspired by the music of Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel, and contemporary folk artists The Paper Kites and Gregory Alan Isakov. Their second studio album, "The Mountain Road Home", was released October 2024. The group is currently recording new music, and playing live at music venues and festivals around the UK.
Who: Gren Bartley !https://files.teamup.com/13511926/attachment/01M21BNMBP096CFMS73Z39P4S6/preview/image.png?hash=a34ec015f6c6913acb6a4c510478e41808ca8b182373826661697ada43d1aae1 Gren Bartley is a UK singer-songwriter and guitarist working somewhere between cinematic folk, intimate acoustic songwriting and finely detailed guitar work. Across a run of acclaimed releases, he has built a reputation for records that are atmospheric, melodic and unmistakably his own. His 2015 album Magnificent Creatures (★★★★★ R2 Magazine), produced by Gavin Monaghan, received outstanding reviews and helped take his music to festivals and venues across the UK and beyond. In 2019 he released Quiet (★★★★★ Northern Sky Magazine), a more stripped-back collection drawing on folk, world music and bottleneck slide guitar, which earned further critical praise. His new album Sunsets, Circles and Waves is released on 15 May 2026. Recorded live in complete takes with no overdubs, it captures the warmth and intimacy of a real performance while deepening the reflective, immersive quality that runs through his work. Gren Bartley writes songs with the instinct of a folk artist and the detail of a craftsman. Drawing on older traditions without sounding trapped by them, he has developed a style that feels warm, immersive and entirely his own.
Who: Kevin Mott Renton Remembered **Kevin Mott Renton**, who died on 7 May last year, ran the idiosyncratic Renton’s Records music shop on High Street in Leamington from the late 1960s to the mid-80s. The store had been passed to him by his stepfather, Arthur Renton, who had run it along traditional lines. But Kevin’s interests in jazz, world music, folk and obscure records and instruments from around the globe gave the business a new character, including having an aviary in the middle of the shop. Kevin also produced his own hand-drawn publicity leaflets and posters. Kevin became interested in instruments from around the world, and made versions of them using scrap materials, which he showed off in the window. When the business closed in 1984, he switched to making a living by travelling around schools, teaching children to make instruments out of recycled items. His reputation in that field was enhanced by two appearances on the BBC’s Blue Peter, in 1988 and 1989. In the last year of his life, Kevin was a regular at Southbound, and so it is a fitting venue for old friends to gather in his memory. At this afternoon's event, compèred by Bungle, you will get to see many of Kevin's instruments played by some of his old friends in a performance of improv jazz, folk and ethnic music. It will be quite informal, as Kevin would have liked. All are welcome.