When: 7pm on Saturday 5 December 2026
Where: The Strines Nightingale, 105 Strines Road, Strines, Marple, Stockport SK6 7GE

We’re exciting to welcome Gwenifer Raymond to The Strines Nightingale – with guests Old Sun, New Moon!

Wales born, Brighton-based instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is a celebrated champion of the finger-picked guitar. She has drawn international acclaim for her repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody her roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, inventing a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. The Guardian has described her as a “profound talent” whilst the Observer has praised her “awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality”, and Uncut Magazine has championed her “fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace.”

The release of Gwenifer Raymond’s third studio album Last Night I Heard  the Dog Star Bark in September 2025 via Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies has seen a torrent of international recognition and exciting opportunities. Highlights amongst those include a Tiny Desk concert, KEXP session, events including Primavera Sound and the Newport Folk Festival, high profile tours with Geese, The Tallest Man On Earth and dates with Mitksi at venues like the Royal Albert Hall.

Newly signed to Fat Possum, the next 12 months promise a glut of further activity, including debut music for the label and first-time reissues of her first two albums, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain (2020, Tompkins Square), a Welsh Music Prize Nominee, and You Were Never Much of a Dancer (2018, Tompkins Square).

Special guests are Old Sun, New Moon – a transatlantic duo made up of Lancashire singer-songwriter Tom Welsh and ambient noisemaker Etta Helfrich from Indiana, US. The two met in February 2022 in Manchester and quickly forged a musical partnership comprising Tom’s introspective northern songwriting and Etta’s midwestern experimental ambient guitar mastery (showcased as solo project Black Brunswicker). The result weaves beautifully textured songs with a rich lyrical landscape, often bolstered by a rotating cast of collaborators. Having independently released two EPs in 2024, supported with UK and US dates, and a single on Nettwerk in 2025, a new album is set to be released in 2027 that sees a more expansive sound explored with the aid of the duo’s full live band.

This show takes place at the Strines Nightingale – a lovely country pub, formerly called the Sportsman, which re-opened in autumn 2022. Strines is on the Piccadilly-Sheffield train line, and on the 358 bus route from Stockport to Hayfield. This show will run until 10.30pm at the latest.

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