The legendary Harrison All Day Folk Festival is back with 5 special editions, starting on 26th May

For over a decade, The Harrison music pub in Kings Cross has held extremely popular bi-annual All Day Folk Festivals. These infamously vibey events featured a huge array of genuine musicians, playing their hearts out. Sadly, the pandemic put a pause to these events, but now The Harrison returns with 5 festivals over 5 months, to make up for all those lost to the Pandemic. Due to their popularity, this time they will be held at the very beauitful and much larger Jamboree Venue, around the corner in Kings Cross. And this time the events have a very urgent mission: To save The Harrison music pub from being bankrupted by Covid rent debt. 

A fun & friendly, day & night, featuring the most exciting folk, world and jazz acts from our local scene and beyond.

EDITION 1: 26th May, noon to 2am at JAMBOREE, 6 St Chads Place, London

12.30pm - Folk Song Sing-Around Workshop. Open to all -Join The Harrison´s regular Sing-Around Session, discovering the joy of singing folk songs together.

1.30pm - Pearl Fish & Rob Quo. Pearl Fish, a poetic and captivating songstress, spawned from London´s waterborne community, joined by the emotive and humorous folk/blues performer Rob Quo.

2.45pm - Prospective Collective. These Jamboree regulars play fun trad jazz classics and blues to swing your Sunday afternoon.

4.00pm - Jack Harris. Award winning singer-songwriter; ‘Jack Harris is a priest of song who holds himself to a rigorous, ancient code of beauty most of us have forgotten exists.’ – Anais Mitchell

5.15pm - Laura Impallomeni Quintet. With the London Jazz scene currently exploding to international acclaim, we invite the Laura Impallomeni Quintet to transport us on a mellow, trombone lead, Sunday afternoon musical odyssey.

6.30pm - Homeward Bound Shanty Session. Time to rouse yourselves! The infamous and engaging Zack McKracken leads a hearty Sea Shanty singalong!

7.45pm - Tamsin Elliott & Tarek Elazhary. One of the hottest acts of the year; the Bristol based folk multi-instrumentalist Tamsin Elliot and Cairo based oud virtuoso Tarek Elazhary, blend and contrast the music styles and instruments of their respective cultures, to create a remarkable transportive experience. Their evocative album "So far we have come" was met with rave reviews and nominations for Album of the Year.

9.15pm - Hands of the Heron. The Sirens of Dreamfolk. Hands of Heron move effortlessly between sparse choral folk and spellbinding chamber pop, richly layered with an assortment of strings, drones and reeds. Rooted in the folk tradition, yet unlimited by convention and soring to wherever their fearlessly hearts take them.

10.30pm - Kasai Masai. Legendary African groovesters, mixing the traditional rural songs of the Congo, with urban rhythms and their own imagination, to create a delicious Soukous soup, guaranteed to make you smile and dance.

Tickets available here, with options for Afternoon Tickets (12pm-6pm), Evening Tickets (6pm-2am) and All Day Tickets (12pm-2am). Children under 10 are welcome to come to the afternoon event for free but will need to leave before 7pm. All under 18 year olds must be accompanied by an adult.

A Harrison All Day Folk Festival is not complete without enjoying a famous Sunday roast from The Harrison. Tickets include re-entry, so you can pop over to The Harrison (5 mins walk) and grab yourself a delicous Sunday Roast. They expect to be very busy, so if you wish to eat at The Harrison, PLEASE BOOK YOUR TABLE IN ADVANCE HERE - www.harrisonbar.co.uk

Watch this documentary to learn more about The Harrison´s Covid/Landlord nightmare.

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The Harrison All Day Folk Festivals @ Jamboree are kindly supported by the Music Venue Trust, the Mayor of London and the Arts Council England.