Join us for fantastic evenings of story, song & merriment
Stories in the Shavings
2025 programme
All profits help fund our free-to-access community programmes: using traditional crafts to support people’s mental health and provide a springboard for creative climate action.
Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary
Stories in the Shavings Presents
Folk musician Tamsin Elliott’s critically-acclaimed collaboration with Egyptian oud player Tarek Elazhary explores the parallels and celebrates the idiosyncrasies of Egyptian Maqam music and English folk traditions. Their friendship and resulting duo album So Far We Have Come is a testament to the unifying power of music, and won them a place in The Guardian’s Top Ten Folk Albums of 2023, as well as a nomination for Best Group at the Songlines Music Awards.
Their work has captured the attention of critics and audiences alike, praised for its innovative blend of quartertone accordion, lever harp and oud. Hailed by The Observer as "a poised, atmospheric fusion delivered by two master players”, their music transcends borders, inviting listeners on a mesmerising journey through landscapes both familiar and foreign.
Through their collaboration, Tamsin and Tarek exemplify a future-facing generation, united in their aim to build new and authentic musical expressions that resonate across continents and cultures.
Location: Bristol Tree Craft CIC, Glenfrome Road, BS16 1BQ.
(detailed arrival instructions sent out before the gig to ticket holders)
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
Pakoras for Palestine serving up delicious food at all our events this summer! This is a grassroots fundraising effort led by Sui, providing direct aid to individuals in Gaza who are in urgent need of support. Come down early, soak up the summer air, and grab yourself a pint and pakoras before the show.
We will run a fully licensed bar supported by Bristol Beer Factory's Brew2Give scheme. Music session around the fire after the show, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close Midnight.
Welcome to Foxville
Story Jam.
Dark falls across our gritty city, and a shadow pads between the cars, under the street light. This place is their place. This time is their time. Do you dare to share it? Welcome to Foxville.
Story Jam brings you old stories with sharp teeth and wild yowls - stories about life thriving off the path and at the edges.
Expect fox-singing, grafitti-inciting and rubbish-rooting in this brand-new show, so clear your throats, roll up your sleeves and come out and play!
Stand-up storytellers Story Jam are back in Bristol, slamming down no-holds barred tales to make you want to rip up the rule book and riot!
Welcome to Foxville is the follow-up to Women Who Gave No F**ks, which has just finished it's second sell-out UK tour. We can't think of a livelier and more playful audience for them to share their next big adventure with.
Location: Bristol Tree Craft CIC, Glenfrome Road, BS16 1BQ.
(detailed arrival instructions sent out before the gig to ticket holders)
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
Pakoras for Palestine serving up delicious food at all our events this summer! This is a grassroots fundraising effort led by Sui, providing direct aid to individuals in Gaza who are in urgent need of support. Come down early, soak up the summer air, and grab yourself a pint and pakoras before the show.
We will run a fully licensed bar supported by Bristol Beer Factory's Brew2Give scheme. Music session around the fire after the show, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close Midnight.
Suntou Susso
Suntou Susso is a multi-instrumentalist- kora player, percussionist, singer and composer. Suntou is from The Gambia and was born a Griot. His primary instrument, the kora is a harp-lute with 22 strings and is unique to the Griots of the Mandinka people. Coming from a 700-year-old tradition, Griots play an important cultural role as peacekeepers and oral historians, transmitting and preserving a people's culture through the generations using song, music and poetry.
Songlines
Kanéfonyo album - “Explosion in Sound”
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Since the release of his self-written debut album, Kanéfonyo (Never Give Up) in 2022, Suntou's career has gained serious momentum and he is an in-demand and charismatic performer. He performs frequently as a solo artist playing traditional kora; or leading his six-piece band whose music is rooted in Mandinka musical traditions whilst strongly infused with jazz, funk and soul; or as part of a folk duo that blends British and Gambian musical traditions, among other impressive collaborations and projects. Suntou’s musical abilities are considered unique for his generation.
Suntou's family includes some of the world’s most highly respected West African musicians including Seckou Keita, Solo Cissokho and Mamudou Susso.
Location: Bristol Tree Craft CIC, Glenfrome Road, BS16 1BQ.
(detailed arrival instructions sent out before the gig to ticket holders)
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
Pakoras for Palestine serving up delicious food at all our events this summer! This is a grassroots fundraising effort led by Sui, providing direct aid to individuals in Gaza who are in urgent need of support. Come down early, soak up the summer air, and grab yourself a pint and pakoras before the show.
We will run a fully licensed bar supported by Bristol Beer Factory's Brew2Give scheme. Music session around the fire after the show, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close Midnight.
Lucy & Hazel
Lucy and Hazel are a Sheffield-based queer folk duo charming audiences with self penned folk laced with humour, harmonies and heartache. With influences drawn from a lifetime steeped in traditional English and European folk music, song and dance, Lucy Huzzard and Hazel Thompson combine a love of groove, soulful raw harmonies and passionate song writing to give you hope in these strange times.
On melodeon, clarinet, guitar and two distinct and powerful voices, Lucy and Hazel’s set will take you on a journey through themes of land and climate justice, feminism, apocalypse, power and platonic love. With inspirations spanning from Joni Mitchell and Ivor Cutler, to stories of resistance to injustice, they are a powerful and entertaining folk duo on the scene.
“Incredible musicianship, tight harmonies, wry, funny and moving lyrics and quality bants! “
Flying Donkey Events
”Lucy and Hazel are surely the queens of the new tribe of British folk emerging from the radical activist left. Folk music just got very exciting.”
Sam Lee
Location: Bristol Tree Craft CIC, Glenfrome Road, BS16 1BQ.
(detailed arrival instructions sent out before the gig to ticket holders)
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
Pakoras for Palestine serving up delicious food at all our events this summer! This is a grassroots fundraising effort led by Sui, providing direct aid to individuals in Gaza who are in urgent need of support. Come down early, soak up the summer air, and grab yourself a pint and pakoras before the show.
We will run a fully licensed bar supported by Bristol Beer Factory's Brew2Give scheme. Music session around the fire after the show, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close Midnight.
Georgie Buchanan & Alana Middleton
Following sell out shows in Leeds, London, Sheffield and Bristol after the release of her acclaimed 2023 debut album ‘Wise as a Fool’, Georgie Buchanan will embark on a special UK and Ireland tour in 2025 alongside Alana Middleton.
An unmissable collaboration between two stalwarts of the Leeds contemporary folk scene, together they craft expressive musical landscapes of acapella harmonies, shimmering instrumentals, and storytelling that speaks of a heartfelt connection with the natural world. They perform traditional songs, material from Georgie’s album ‘Wise as a Fool’ and co-written compositions, inspired by voyages to the Outer Hebrides, tales of ancient Celtic Goddesses and great singers from Peggy Seeger to Joni Mitchell.
Location: Bristol Tree Craft CIC, Glenfrome Road, BS16 1BQ.
(detailed arrival instructions sent out before the gig to ticket holders)
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
Pakoras for Palestine serving up delicious food at all our events this summer! This is a grassroots fundraising effort led by Sui, providing direct aid to individuals in Gaza who are in urgent need of support. Come down early, soak up the summer air, and grab yourself a pint and pakoras before the show.
We will run a fully licensed bar supported by Bristol Beer Factory's Brew2Give scheme. Music session around the fire after the show, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close Midnight.
Hedera
Bristol Tree Craft’s Songs in the Shavings Presents.
Hedera
Hedera is a new Bristol-based quintet of instrumentalists brought together by a desire to lean into the slower and more delicate side of European folk traditions. Their growing repertoire draws on French, English, Eastern European and Scandinavian music, with playful and inventive arrangements that reflect the diverse array of experience brought by members of the band: violinists Maisie Brett and Lulu Ruby Rose, clarinettist Isis Wolf-Light, Beth Roberts on double bass, and Tamsin Elliott on accordion and harp. Intrigued by the combination of strings and reeds that seems to lend itself to effortless arranging, they have also now begun to create original music together.
Doors Open at 7:00PM
Starts at 8:00PM
The bar will stay open for a jam session around the fire after the event, so (if you feel inclined) bring your instruments to join in the tunes!
Close 11.30pm
Bristol Tree Craft CIC
Glenfrome Rd
Bristol
BS16 1BQ
