Folk at the Watch House: Cath & Phil Tyler
Schedule
Fri Mar 07 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Cullercoats Watch House | North Shields, EN
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Join us for a series of intimate folk concerts at Cullercoats Watch House, a unique and quirky venue in the heart of Cullercoats. The evening will include a short support set (details tbc).Join us for a series of intimate folk concerts at Cullercoats Watch House, a unique and quirky venue in the heart of Cullercoats. The evening will include a short support set.
Cath & Phil Tyler
Cath & Phil Tyler play Anglo-American folk music using guitar, banjo, voice and fiddle. Coming together musically through a shared love of traditional narrative song, full voiced sacred harp singing and sparse mountain banjo, they have performed on stages as diverse as the Royal Opera House in London and the Morden Tower in the old city walls of Newcastle. Taking a more minimal approach to their material than some, they have been described as ‘one of the most compelling musical partnerships on the scene’, their music being ‘a highly concentrated and intimate musical experience that penetrates to the very rawest essence of folk tradition’.
“Folk moves into a new era with Cath and Phil. Their combination of earthiness and grit, raw yet heartfelt and beautiful singing and immaculate playing makes this one of the most exciting and most moving albums I’ve heard in a long while.”
– Fiona Talkington, ‘Late Junction’, BBC Radio 3
“One of the most satisfying – and satisfyingly authentic – records of American traditional music to come out of this country in recent years. Timelessly primitive and powerfully compelling, it gets through to you so much so that the entire disc demands immediate repeated play.”
– David Kidman, FRoots
“There’s an earthiness and grittiness and a reality about this that I find personally incredibly appealing, the simplicity of the music is absolutely stunning.”
– Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
“Dumb Supper is one of those rare modern folk albums that will find a home in both the longstanding ‘traditional’ music community and among those attracted to the form’s more experimental and lo-fi possibilities….It’s a weird looking-glass effect many folk fans will be familiar with: the straighter you play it, the stranger it gets…Shirley Collins always understood this and so do Cath & Phil Tyler.”
– Frances Morgan, Plan B Magazine
“Absolutely great music, it’s raw and uncompromising but I think it gets right to the heart of the story”
– Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
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Where is it happening?
Cullercoats Watch House, North Shields, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
