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Event 68

Saturday 14 November 2026 | 8.00 pm

Event 68 | The Bookshop Band | Folklore (Not Taylor’s Version)

£15.00

The Bookshop Band – Folklore (Not Taylor’s Version)

Join us for an end-of-festival celebration with Beth Porter and Ben Please of The Bookshop Band. Since they began playing at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath, the playful folk duo have released 13 book-inspired albums, collaborating with more than 100 authors including Philip Pullman, Rachel Joyce, Robert Macfarlane and Margaret Attwood, who has described their work as “an inspiration”. Their most recent album, Emerge, Return and an EP of three songs about the infamous Oz magazine have been produced by Pete Townsend of The Who. They’ll be loosely exploring one of the themes of this year’s festival, our shared folklore. “Achingly good”, New York Times. “Just delightful”, BBC Radio 2.

When: Saturday 14 November 2026 @ 8.00 pm
Where: Oxenbury’s Yard

Description

The Bookshop Band are Ben Please and Beth Porter. They collaborate with authors to write songs inspired by books often to be played in bookshops, a process that began at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. Beth is also a member of the Lost Words: Spell Songs collective and plays regularly with Eliza Carthy. Ben’s credits include writing the score for the Oscar-nominated short film Robin, Robin. He is currently recording a solo piano album. They live in rural south-west Scotland.

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