Friday 22nd May, From 7pm till 1.00 3keys welcome party with all the DJ'S playing the best in Rythm & Soul SKA RnB British Beat Saturday 23rd May, from 11am till 5pm we have open decks Unknown Talent and vintage stalls in the Main Hall 2pm The scooter ride out. Saturday 23rd May from 7pm till 1.00 am with DJs spinning the best in 60s club soul RnB Tamla Motown Boogaloo Latin Mod classics and SKA. Sunday 24th May from 11am till 5pm scooter competition, plus Vintage market , and scooter ride out. And open Decks for Unknown talent.

Formed by two seasoned acoustic musicians whose love of Celtic and folk traditions runs deep, Duff Paddy bring warmth, humour and instrumental flair to every performance. Guitarist & vocalist Paul Mitchell (UK) and accordion/bodhran player & vocalist Paul Tuthill (from Dublin, now based in Germany) fuse their distinct talents into a vibrant duo that delights audiences across folk clubs, festivals, and intimate venues alike. Origins & Heritage Both Pauls began playing in their teens and have built rich musical careers throughout the UK and beyond. They share Irish roots as proud descendants of the historic McCarthy clan of County Kerry, and Paul Tuthill's great uncle was the celebrated Irish writer and songwriter Sean McCarthy. At the age of just 16, Paul Tuthill was voted All-Ireland bodhran champion - a testament to his extraordinary virtuosity on the instrument. His rhythmic drive and dynamic playing are a defining feature of Duff Paddy's live set, while Paul Mitchell contributes finely-tuned guitar work, a strong vocal presence, and a deep passion for storytelling and song. Sound & Style Duff Paddy's repertoire sits at the intersection of traditional Irish, Scottish, and English folk and modern acoustic styles, including touches of Americana and Alt-Country. Their sets balance lively instrumental reels and jigs with heartfelt ballads - both covers and original compositions - all performed with the duo's characteristic warmth and humour. Album & Releases In 2017, Duff Paddy released their album Hotel Connemara, available on CD and across all major streaming platforms. The album showcases their dual strengths as entertainers and musicians: tight harmonies, engaging arrangements, and a blend of lively instrumentals and evocative songs that capture the duo's spirit. Live Performance & Personality What truly sets Duff Paddy apart is not only their musicianship but the engaging, humorous experience they bring to the stage. Their shows are filled with witty banter, storytelling, and audience interaction - from impromptu sing-alongs to playful exchanges between the two Pauls. This infectious energy, combined with instrumental precision, has earned them loyal audiences throughout the UK, Europe, and the USA. Key Milestones & Collaborations Performed in folk clubs, village halls, and festivals across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Featured at events such as Irish Night at Banbury Folk Club (March 2020). Shared stages (as individuals and as Duff Paddy) with musicians including Ronnie Drew (The Dubliners), Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention / Jethro Tull), and Danny Thompson (Pentangle / John Martyn). Released their album Hotel Connemara on CD and digital platforms worldwide. What's Next Since the Covid-19 pandemic, Duff Paddy's touring schedule has slowed, partly due to travel restrictions between the UK and Germany and the decline in small folk venues across Europe. Despite the pause, the duo remain active, writing, recording, and maintaining their connection with fans. In 2026, Duff Paddy look forward to returning to live performance with an appearance at Folk on the Pier in Cromer - marking a much-anticipated reunion on stage and a celebration of the music that connects audiences to their Celtic roots. Beyond 2026, the duo continue to evolve, with new recordings and live dates planned, staying true to their mission: bringing Celtic roots into a fresh acoustic form, combining musicianship, humour, and heart in equal measure.

'Fiasco are wonderful and defy labelling as a musical genre! They entice and entertain with a musical tapestry woven out of humour, pathos, dance and conviviality. You hear the skilled musicians alternating as leaders, seamlessly throwing melodies back and forth to each other. You see them look each other in the eye and play in perfect synchronisation. You feel them playing with tempo and beat alike. To communicate so well to an audience without using lyrics is credit to their creativity in arrangement as well as their individual and collective instrumental prowess. Just listen to them for one performance and tell me if I am wrong! - Trudi Box A beautiful blend of styles and instruments that transport the imagination on a whirlwind of a journey through sheer emotion and passion' - Tessa Gibson 'The Fiasco! concert in Cromer left me feeling exhilarated and inspired. What a brilliant and hilarious bunch of first class musicians!' - Adam Shawyer 'Fiasco! is a riotous explosion of joyous music, taking you on a journey through world folk, dance, classical and more. The four musicians lead their audience through foot-stomping frenzy to calm musical melancholy and back again; clearly having huge amounts of fun while doing so. Go and see them!' - Melissa Collin 'Fiasco! is a quartet of musicians who galvanise each other in a myriad directions. From Klezmer to Bartok, from Lennon and McCartney to Mendelssohn, these transformative individuals dance their way to glory, along roads less taken. Once heard, never forgotten' -Peter Pegnal

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves. Based in Newcastle but hailing from across the UK, the Tea Pad have released five albums, and toured widely across the British Isles and Europe, playing everywhere from Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival to village halls and barns, and all points in between. Well-known for their energetic live shows, and dry humour, theyve toured with some of the big-name Americana outfits such as Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, and Sierra Ferrell. The upcoming album, Feet First, was recorded in just two days at Lightning Recorders in Berlin a studio known for producing authentic analogue recordings, live in the room, and straight-to-tape. This capturing of a musical moment can really be heard in the new Tea Pad Orchestra record. The addition of Ben Powling on saxophone has also elevated the band's sound into a new and exciting era. After a decade of honing their craft, they have never sounded so good!

Jazz Sabbath is a jazz trio from Great Britain that plays new jazz arrangements of Black Sabbath songs. Although the band presents itself as a jazz trio founded in 1968 and the original authors of the tracks later made famous by Black Sabbath. Helmed by pianist Adam Wakeman (Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne since 2004), Jazz Sabbath explores the boundaries between jazz and the songs that defined heavy metal, revisiting existing jazz riffs and discovering new ones. Whether or not you believe their wild backstory, with three albums high in the Billboard Jazz Charts, sold-out shows worldwide, and rave reviews in both jazz and rock media, Jazz Sabbath is quickly making its way (back) to the top of the jazz scene.

The music of the Dogs D'Amour can be described as a mixture of The Rolling Stones and Faces-style blues rock and Hanoi Rocks-style glam punk.

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett is the 1976 debut album by English folk singer-songwriter duo John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett. Released first on their own Extracked Records, the album is a collection of recordings made between 1971 and 1976. Recording began with a series of sessions at Pete Townshend's Eel Pie Studios in which The Who guitarist contributed as an arranger, producer and performer.[Townshend produced the first two Track label singles by the duo, "Murder Man" and "Louisa On a Horse", which were included on the album. A third single, "Really Free", reached No.27 in the UK charts in December 1977[ after the pair performed a set live on the BBC TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test. The performance was notable for an incident in which Otway vaulted on to a PA tower and overbalanced after Barrett's signal began cutting out. The Independent reported: "He brought down the speaker stack but fractured no bones when he landed on the sharp corner of a bass cabinet, as the impact was cushioned by his testicles."[ Polydor reissued the album after signing the band in 1977. The AllMusic website rated it seven out of 10, describing it as a patchwork collection that "dances on a peculiar precipice somewhere between folk and country, pop and pub rock"

As lead singer, songwriter and frontman of the legendary Adverts TV Smith was at the heart of the first wave of British Punk Rock along with other bands such as The Clash, The Damned, and The Sex Pistols.

The Guilty Men is a British supergroup from Northwest England, formed in 2021 by longtime friends Clive Gregson and Neil Cossar. The band is known for its blend of Americana, folk, country, pop, and psychedelia. Band Members The lineup consists of five experienced musicians who have collectively performed in thousands of gigs: Clive Gregson: Lead vocals and guitar; formerly of Any Trouble and a collaborator with Christine Collister and Richard Thompson. Neil Cossar: Guitar and vocals; formerly of the 1980s band The Cheaters and founder of the music site This Day in Music. Paul Burgess: Drums; a legendary musician who has been a member of 10cc since 1973 and has toured with Jethro Tull and Camel. Craig Fletcher: Bass and vocals; from John Lees' Barclay James Harvest. Jez Smith: Keyboards; also from John Lees' Barclay James Harvest.

THINGS ABOUT US We like to play music, stringband music. We call it stringband music because it's just too tedious to try and get into whether it's old time, bluegrass, ragtime, country, or general freakout music. We have done so since 2002, mostly based out of Richmond, VA. We've been lots of places, including all throughout the USA, the UK, Ireland, and a little piece of Europe. Some of our festival highlights have been: Tønder, Celtic Connections, The Shetland Folk Festival, The Orkney Folk Festival, South By Southwest, Floyd Fest, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival, The Watermelon Park Festival, The Northeast Kingdom Music Festival, Didmarton Bluegrass Festival, Maverick Festival, HebCeltFest, Speyfest, Leicester Summer Sundae and multiple occasions Edinburgh Festival Fringe (including a Herald Angel Award in 2006). AND OF COURSE CROMER We like to: play fast, be funny, spasm, herk and jerk, eat exotic and frightening things, and ride in a van. We love each other, we love you! We are Josh, Jake, Rudy, JM, and Charles (plus others)

This membership ticket gives you a 10% discount on all 2026 Cromer Community Association events. You will also not have to pay a booking fee on any of these 2026 events. The single membership ticket can be used for one ticket per event. The joint membership ticket can be used for two tickets per event.

Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery, busked in the streets of Paris, opened for Joan Baez (who covered several of his songs), and collaborated with Grammy-winner Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Elvis Costello). Originally from New York, now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters, vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risksto playas each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating. During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell's songs weave tales that interchangeably champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society's fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs, to dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he has a unique ability to morph into the soul of the many and varied personalities he casts as narrators in certain songsveritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies. "Occasionally an artist has a night that makes even skeptics think, O.K., maybe he is the best. Richard Shindell achieved this." Ann Powers, NY Times

Born on March 30, 1953, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Phil Bates discovered his love for music at the age of eleven. His musical journey commenced with the formation of his first band, The Wild Four, at the tender age of twelve, later transforming into The Teenbeats. In 1970, at seventeen, Bates left Tamworth and joined the Heavy-Rock band JUG, followed by a stint with the Kabarett/Folk ensemble Enigma. The band eventually evolved into Quill. Bates explored a solo career, collaborated with Duane Eddy in 1974, and engaged in various musical projects during the vibrant London scene of the 1970s. In 1980, Bates collaborated with Colin Thurston and contributed to the early recordings of Duran Duran. He rejoined Quill in 1983 and co-founded Dont Panic with his future wife, Jo. The couple spent three years performing in the United Arab Emirates. Bates resumed solo work, collaborated with artists like Billy Ocean, and contributed to TV and radio jingles. The pivotal year 1993 marked Bates association with ELO Part II, embarking on extensive global tours until 1999. He played a significant role in the album Moment Of Truth and worked as a co-producer and mixer. Post-ELO Part II, Bates ventured into solo projects, formed The Eleanor Rigby Experience, and joined The Orchestra in 2007. Simultaneously, he engaged in diverse musical projects, including BBBV (Beatles, Blues and Blue Violin) and ELO-related ventures like ELO Klassik and The Music of ELO. From 2011 to 2013, Bates participated in projects like Blue Violin and ELO Klassik. In 2013, he founded the Phil Bates Trio with Jo Bates and Susan Filep. Over the years, he continued to captivate audiences, demonstrating his versatility and dedication to music. As of 2023, Phil Bates remains a prominent figure in the music scene. Whether performing as a solo artist or contributing to collaborative projects, he continues to share his exceptional talent and passion for music with audiences worldwide. Experience the enchanting journey of Phil Bates a testament to a lifetime dedicated to the art of sound.

Old Baby Mackerel are a high-energy bluegrass act that are making waves on the international bluegrass scene. They were recently featured on BBC 6 Music, in The British Bluegrass News and completed a run of sold-out shows at venues across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. They have played main stage slots at UK festivals such as Glastonbury, Boomtown, Shambala and Latitude, as well as festivals such as Westport Bluegrass (Ireland), Willisau Bluegrass (Switzerland), Nsville (Sweden), Pflasterspektakel (Austria) and Jai Thep (Thailand). Their music uses banjo, mandolin, guitar and double bass to get knees bouncing and elbows swinging to the sweet harmonies, blistering solos and driving rhythm of the authentic Bluegrass sound. Be prepared to be transported back in time and space to early 20th century North America where songs dramatised the small town fascination with locomotion, love, violence and the veneration of bootleg liquor.

Black Umfolosi performances are inspired by the traditional song and dance of their native southern Africa, with a beauty and enthusiasm that is unrivalled. Their performances are energy driven and completely engaging, mixing a great gentleness of spirit and song with an exuberance in dance. Their trademark harmonies mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their brilliantly choreographed shows with a full range of movements from subtle to vibrant stomping and leaping! Their famous Gumboot Dances showcase the traditional styles and rituals of the South African mining regions and are a particular crowd pleaser. The group formed in 1982 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, naming themselves after the Umfolozi Omnyama River an area to which their ancestors can be traced to. Arguably Zimbabwe's greatest ambassadors, the group have toured the UK many times building up a lasting relationship with venues and their fans. They have a natural ability to communicate passion and feeling in their spectacular performances that thrill audiences worldwide

Black Umfolosi teach dance steps and vocal parts introducing participants to traditional Zimbabwean styles resulting in a rewarding and memorable experience. The group give fascinating insights about where they live and their background making the whole experience enlightening, informative and entertaining.

Experience an unforgettable evening of music with Kevin Dempsey and Joe Broughton, two of the UK's most dynamic and inventive performers. Renowned for dazzling musicianship and infectious stage chemistry, this exceptional duo blend folk, rock, blues, and world influences into a sound that is both exhilarating and deeply moving. Expect soaring fiddle lines, masterful guitar work, rich vocals, and spontaneous moments of wit and warmth. Whether delivering heartfelt ballads or foot-stomping reels, Dempsey and Broughton create a powerful live experience that captivates audiences from the first note to the final encore. Join us for a night of brilliance, energy, and musical storytelling.

Hollie Rogers is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for her powerful voice, sharp lyrics, and percussive, acoustic guitar-led sound. Drawing influence from artists like Joan Armatrading, Carole King and Blondie, she creates music that balances emotional depth with playful charm. Hollie has appeared at major festivals including Glastonbury, Black Deer and Cornbury, and has opened for the likes of KT Tunstall, Suzanne Vega, Paolo Nutini, Midge Ure and Ralph McTell. She is also a regular performer at events curated by Whispering Bob Harris, who invited her to record a live session at his home studio. Hollie's music is playlisted in all Caffè Nero stores worldwide, and she is backed by BBC Introducing. A graduate of the English Folk Expo's prestigious Artist Mentorship Programme, Hollie has collaborated with high profile artists like Jamie Lawson and legendary guitarist Robben Ford, who both feature on her last album, "Criminal Heart". The album was met with critical acclaim and is available to stream here, or to purchase on CD & Vinyl here. Her forthcoming album, "Everything's Fine", features collaborations with Elles Bailey and Beth Nielsen-Chapman, with vocals engineered by 5-time Grammy-nominated James McMillan. The album represents a new era in Hollie's songwriting, and is due for release in mid-2026. Across the UK, Hollie has earned a reputation for engaging, powerful live performances that leave audiences coming back for more.

Stiff Records first release, on 14 August 1976, was a single (in the normal 7" vinyl 45 rpm format) by Nick Lowe, "So It Goes", B-side "Heart of the City", with the striking catalogue number BUY 1. To mark this date, Richard Balls, author of Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story will be talking about its incredible history, There will also be music recorded by Stiff Records and more.