Saturday May 3rd 2025 @ 7.30pm

HONEY & THE BEAR + Friends (Toby Shaer, Archie Churchill-Moss & Evan Carson)

We are delighted that this gig has now officially been included as part of the Haslemere Festival 2025 and will be featured in the Festival programme. Honey & The Bear + Friends are rapidly becoming firm favourites with our audience. After a delayed first gig owing to the pandemic, they have now played for us twice since then; in May 2022 and November 2023. British Folk and Roots duo Honey & the Bear combine delicately interweaving vocal harmonies with emotive and evocative song writing. With a diverse range of sounds, textures and rhythms that flow from the fast and furious to gentle ballads, their live performances are spirited and dynamic. Conjuring up stories in song, they tell tales of Suffolk folklore, courageous people they admire, their passion for Nature and the odd heartbreak or two. The multi-instrumentalist pair, comprised of songwriters Jon Hart (guitar, bass, bouzouki) and Lucy Hart (guitar, ukulele, bass, banjo, mandolin & percussion), have been writing and performing together since early 2014, having met at a song writing event two years previously. Since forming their band, Honey & The Bear have played at many revered venues and festivals across the UK, as well as travelling across the channel for their first European tour. They have supported Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys on two UK tours and opened for The Shires at the world renowned Snape Maltings.

As they are celebrating ten years together, this show will feature cherry-picked favourite songs from their back catalogue and for the first time at Grayshott Folk Club tonight, we will be seeing their full, five-piece band. Jon and Lucy will be joined on Stage by Toby Shaer (Whistles, Harmonium, Flute, Fiddle, Bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (Melodeon) and Evan Carson (Percussion, Drums, Bodhran). These friends and musicians play on all three of Honey & The Bear's albums and all of them have also appeared at Grayshott Folk Club in other bands, at different times because they are highly sought after and very talented young musicians.

Tickets £18

Available from: Grayshott Post Office (in person)

Reserve tickets by calling Des O'Byrne on 01428 607096

Or buy online from Ents 24 at:

https://www.ents24.com/hindhead-events/grayshott-village-hall/honey-and-the-bear-friends/7269747