The Brothers Gillespie

Gigs · Ashburton

The Brothers Gillespie

Sunday 1 November 2026 · Doors 19:00

Arts Centre, Ashburton

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The Brothers Gillespie is on Sunday 1 November 2026 at Arts Centre, Ashburton, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £8.80, including the booking fee.

The songs of Northumbrian folk alchemists The Brothers Gillespie (James and Sam Gillespie) are animated by lyrical poetry, fluid fingerstyle guitar, multi-instrumental musicianship and “the glorious tones of their blood harmony” (Sam Lee). Theirs is a music of encounter, of lark song and crow call, ash leaves and hidden ways. It is rooted in the earth and arises most strongly for them when they are out walking in the borderlands with their packs and instruments. Bringing together visionary mythopoetics with a radical spirit, the brothers tread an older path whilst singing with fierce tenderness to the present time in its grief and luminosity. Their live performances are known for a rare intimacy and the spontaneous ways they weave tales around the songs and invite audiences into the heart of the music. In 2026 the brothers have been busy touring and recording, for the release of their fourth studio album Kingfisher which was released on 10 October. Kingfisher is a collection of songs borne of deepening into the kingdom of life and its terrain of love, loss, grief and longing. These are songs dreamed into being on the banks of two Northern rivers, the Tweed and Tyne, and are suf...

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