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Expect an eclectic mix of world, electronic, folk, contemporary and experimental music... and a host of nature-inspired workshops and arts and craft stalls
Throwing snow
London-based migrant, Ross Tones, makes music under the ever so pertinent moniker, Throwing Snow. Drawing influence from a vast array of genres, his production work possesses consistent and comforting warmth, while still glistening with a serene kind of steely coldness. Throwing Snow has toured with Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace, Bonobo and Jon Hopkins. Now based in Donegal, Throwing Snow has released a string of EPs and albums on Houndstooth. He is currently releasing music on Max Cooper’s label MESH.
mara
simpson
Mara Simpson is a multi-instrumentalist, performing artist, songwriter, producer and composer. Her work seamlessly blends electronic, acoustic and orchestral instruments, exploring her love for tape delays, analogue synths and field recordings. Her fourth studio album Living Matter, written and engineered in the Stroud, Gloucestershire recording studio she
handwrought, was released on the 30th May 2025 via Republic of Music with the vinyl featuring liner notes by DJ, presenter and podcaster Edith Bowman.
Living Matter is a unique album written in response to a set of poems by celebrated poet JLM Morton (published in her book Red Handed). Born out of a mutual admiration and a friendship fostered in wild swimming, Simpson produceda live score for the performance of her and writer Emma Kernahan’s book, Glos Mythos. This collaboration planted the seeds for what would blossom into a full length album.
safe operating space
Safe Operating Space is a strange and compelling sonic world — a sequence of original works where contrasting influences collide and transform. It is a hotbed of creative production, blending intricate studio craft with enthusiastic, meditative performance. There’s a sense of an information-age soundscape: dystopian textures meeting moments of optimism, all conceived with an exploratory, DIY spirit. Each track unfolds like an abstract story, becoming a room the audience can step inside and inhabit.
Led by Tullis Rennie — composer, trombonist and DJ — Safe Operating Space sits at the intersection of improvised music and club culture, fusing acoustic performance with electronic production into a fluid, genre-defying experience.
Haiku Salut
Haiku Salut are an instrumental trio from the Derbyshire Dales combining elements of folktronica, minimalism and contemporary classical music. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as “loopery and laptopery”. They are influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, and the genre-melting electronica of early Múm
"Haiku Salut work as an unspeaking, instrument-swapping unit. A trumpet, an accordion and a ukulele are impassively passed around, as if Kraftwerk had been an English demi-folk band."
The Guardian
balladeste
Balladeste are paving the way for an emerging new genre of Contemporary Classical meets Folk in its broadest form ‘Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism’
A collaboration between violinist Preetha Narayanan and cellist Tara Franks - an ever evolving musical partnership and deep friendship forged over ten years, Balladeste have developed a unique way of writing, weaving in and out of each other’s voices as performer-composers. Exploring the versatility and sound potential of just two string instruments. Balladeste creates a musical narrative that is both ancient yet contemporary, devotional whilst pastoral, writing original compositions that are vibrant, experimental, melodic and contemplative in quality - Songs without words with contemporary alt-folk twist.
Drawing on influences as far ranging as the singular melodies of visionary Hildegard of Bingham, the modal minimalism of Arvo Pärt, harmonic palette of Purcell via the minimalism of Philip Glass, Balladeste's musical breadth is equally akin to the likes of Caroline Shaw and Liam Byrne as the Madras String quartet and Silk Road Ensemble.
floral pattern
Led by tenor saxophonist Mylie Noble, Floral Pattern are a powerful new presence emerging from the Midlands jazz scene. Blending composition and improvisation with a vibrant layer of electronics, their music builds toward euphoric, dance-driven climaxes that energise both band and audience alike.
Born out of the 'Greenhouse' improvised jazz-fusion jam sessions in Derby, the group draws on a strikingly broad range of influences — from the spiritual intensity of Pharoah Sanders to the contemporary groove of Ezra Collective and the electronic edge of Nerve — positioning them firmly at the cutting edge of UK jazz.
Expect virtuosic playing, psychedelic textures, deep grooves, and above all, music that demands movement.
IONA KAYE
