The Shed On Tour brought the folk group KAN to Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall tonight and attracted an appreciative audience of 180+ to the delight of promoters Simon Thackray and Sue Wright.
KAN
Irish flute and whistle player Brian Finnegan and Scottish fiddler Aidan O’Rourke, front men with Flook and Lau, have joined forces with two of the brightest stars in the world of rhythm and accompaniment – Yorkshire-based guitarist Ian Stephenson, who works with Kathryn Tickell, and Jim Goodwin, drummer and percussionist with the Halle and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, to travel an innovative new musical path.
Visit the KAN website here.
The Shed On Tour is a new collaboration between The Shed and Rural Arts North Yorkshire and will bring leading artists from the world of folk, jazz, country and contemporary classical music to village and community halls like ours across Ryedale and beyond.
The Shed has been awarded £34,500 from the National Lottery through Arts Council England to work with Rural Arts on this exciting new pilot project.
You can watch KAN footage on YouTube here.
has gained a nation-wide reputation for its live-event and film programmes, which has grown over time. The venue, which has a 140-seat auditorium and 40-seat studio/exhibition space, has provided film screenings, live music, theatre performances, comedy clubs, art exhibitions and workshops/classes to tens of thousands of people since opening its doors.
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