Katy Bennett

Gigs · Birmingham

Katy Bennett

Wednesday 3 February 2027 · Doors 19:30

The Red Lion Kings Heath, Birmingham

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Katy Bennett is on Wednesday 3 February 2027 at The Red Lion Kings Heath, Birmingham, with doors at 19:30. Tickets start at £13.20, including the booking fee.

Katy Rose Bennett is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer and arranger. She has been creating earthy, intimate folk music for over 20 years, telling stories of love, despair, connection and community. She empowers audiences to be emotionally open by sharing the strength in vulnerability through the vessel of song. She has released seven albums of original songs in her career - her most recent described on BBC Radio 2 as “Fascinating stuff…a sort of folk-meets-Laurie Anderson". She has toured the UK and beyond as a soloist in numerous ensembles. Katy was born in Oxfordshire but has been based in Birmingham for 20 years. As well as gigging regularly, she leads community choirs and songwriting workshops, composes for others, including cross-artform collaborations, and is a trained music therapist. She has experience working as a musician in schools, prisons, hospitals and community settings and especially loves bringing people together through singing. In 2019, she co-founded In Her Shoes, a community interest company supporting women and girls across the Midlands. Spurred on by her own lived experiences, she is an active advocate of LGBTQ and disability rights.

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