Friday at Love Folk Festival

We regret to inform you that Sheelanagig have cancelled their performance at Love Folk Festival on Fri 14 Feb due to ill health.

The Friday line-up at Love Folk Festival has been re-programmed to include BBC Radio 2 award-winning trio The Trials of Cato with support from The Goat Roper Band and Lizzy Hardingham.

The Atkinson apologises for these unforeseen circumstances which are out of our control.

We look forward to welcoming you to Love Folk Festival.

The Trials of Cato

Originally from North Wales and Yorkshire, The Trials of Cato formed whilst living in Beirut, and spent a year boiling down the roots of their sound into a hybrid of traditional inRluences that intrigued Lebanese audiences in the country’s biggest venues. Returning home from Beirut in the winter of 2016, they have since torn a shape very much their own into the canvas of the UK folk scene.

Back in the UK, they set to performing tirelessly up and down the country, leading to BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailing them as “one of the real discoveries on the folk circuit in recent times.” The reception of their debut album, Hide and Hair, has been overwhelmingly positive. The album gained attention in national publications, receives repeated national airplay on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, and won Best Album at the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The year following the release saw the band win Best Emerging Artist at the inaugural Wales Folk Awards, and since then the group have been touring the UK extensively as well as making their Rirst appearances is the USA, Canada and Europe.