Puzzle Hall Inn

Steve Reich In The Afternoon
2026-07-11 14:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Alex McCune gives us his one and only, annual DJ set, down at the Puzzle. For this year’s ‘Steve Reich In The Afternoon’ we’ll be celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday, and beginning proceedings with 90 mins of Steve Reich, followed by more bangers from the world of minimalist and ambient music.

Lillith's Army + Rock Paper Sister
2026-07-11 21:00 - 23:00
Northampton’s Lilith’s Army’s mix lo-fi punk, metal and the grungy garage rock of L7 and Mudhoney into an intoxicating brew. Fronted by the raw yet harmonically rich vocals of Sylvie Studente and charging head first with powerful riffs and tight grooves they create a pummeling but invigorating sound.
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/…
https://www.facebook.com/lilithsarmyOfficial/
https://www.youtube.com/@LilithsArmy
“Blending the best of lo-fi, punk, grunge and metal, Lilith’s Army are a three piece that has class throughout” – Deuce Music
“So heavy and raw, very authentic, lots of emotion and attitude, and just overall fun” – Punktuation
Huddersfield’s Rock Paper Sister are influenced by Guano Apes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Skunk Anansie and combine a classic rock sheen with a side order of funkiness and dramatic vocals. Expect huge riffs, creative bass lines, flamboyant drums and melodic vocals. With their energetic live performances and strong songwriting, Rock Paper Sister are quickly making a name for themselves in the local music scene and their recent appearances at Bands on the Square and the Longest Day Festival have garnered strong feedback.
“A dynamic female-fronted 4 piece delivering high-voltage rock.” – Kirklees Most Wanted
https://www.facebook.com/Rrock.Paper.Sister/
https://www.instagram.com/rock_paper_sister_music/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4VUu8gW44

Calderdale Fantasy Orchestra
2026-07-12 18:00 - 20:00
The Calderdale Fantasy Orchestra is a community project based in the Calder Valley which brings together 50+ musicians, professional and amateur, to create a kaleidoscopic symphonic brigade.Their eclectic repertoire covers film soundtracks (Morricone, John Barry), rock and pop favourites (Leonard Cohen, Beatles, Bowie, Radiohead), and some more obscure treasures. Think psychedelic loveliness, rousing choral noise, and some choice costumes.
https://www.facebook.com/CalderdaleFantasyOrchestra/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwslkjLfsk
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1f19GolS8
https://www.fantasyorchestra.org/calderdale/

Chess Night
2026-07-13 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-07-20 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-07-27 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-08-03 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-08-10 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-08-17 20:00 - 23:00
All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

French Fridays
2026-07-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-24 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-31 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-08-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-08-14 17:30 - 18:30
An informal group to practice your conversational French – Everyone welcome!

Gilbert Piano Evening
2026-07-18 20:00 - 23:00
Soul, Jazz, Keys, a beautiful voice.
Music from 9 from Huddersfield’s finest singer and musician.

Adeline Hotel and Cameron Knowler
2026-07-19 16:00 - 18:00
Adeline Hotel (USA)Pitchfork-endorsed alt indie folk / country from New York in a Neil Young / Jim O’Rourke vein as seen with Brigid Mae Power and William Tylerhttps://adelinehotel.bandcamp.com/
Cameron Knowler (USA) Instrumental fingerpicked acoustic guitar from Arizona offering postmodern perspectives on American traditional music https://cameronknowler.bandcamp.com/

FREE ENTRY with donations for acts gratefully accepted
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“What I’m going through is hard to describe,” Dan Knishkowy sings near the end of his kaleidoscopic new album, Watch the Sunflowers. Recording as Adeline Hotel, the songwriter, guitarist, and Ruination Record Co. label head has made an art of complicated feelings, whether zooming in so closely that he can describe each individual thread or panning out until the view becomes psychedelic and strange. At a prolific pace, he has accompanied these observations with music that’s just as creatively restless. On one record, he is a solo guitarist improvising in a quiet room; on the next, he’s a piano balladeer backed by strings. He may front a rock band that draws inspiration from Neil Young at his most ragged and Richard Thompson at his most stately; on another, he may blend into the autumnal hush of a complex jazz group.
The expertly written, masterfully delivered Watch the Sunflowers is the most colorful music of Knishkowy’s career. This, of course, is a direct response to what came before it. These seven imagistic songs arrive after 2024’s breakthrough Whodunnit, a record whose stark portraits of codependency and isolation were delivered as raw and nakedly as Knishkowy ever allowed himself. If those songs seemed to burst forward on the immediacy of their feelings, this time, he compares his approach to a Richard Linklater film. This process encouraged him to live inside the stories and notice how the passing of time changed the atmosphere, whether that meant embellishing the compositions with lush, expansive arrangements or sanding them down to impressionistic loops.
Produced with Nate Mendelsohn and bandmate Winston Cook-Wilson, the music arrives in a lineage of rock bands pushing their sounds to the brink. I think of the rock-bottom alien transmissions on Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born or the downer anthems of Big Star’s Third: albums where traditional rock bands presented their most fragile material in rooms where everything seemed to be falling apart. The recording process proceeded in two distinct phases. First was a traditional session in 2022 with regular collaborators Andrew Stocker on bass, Sean Mullins on drums, and Cook-Wilson on keys. After sitting on the material and letting the songs shapeshift in his mind, Knishkowy revisited them in early 2025 with Mendelsohn and Cook-Wilson, whom Knishkowy also enlisted to provide the sweeping string arrangements.
In response, Knishkowy found himself revising the lyrics and updating the music to suit his evolving perspective. Sometimes, as in the hypnotic “Just Like You,” the distance allowed him to reimagine once again what Adeline Hotel could sound like. By the time they arrived at the album version, Mendelsohn was creating warped layers of processed effects; Cook-Wilson tapped out rhythms on a drum machine; Jackie West provided comforting vocal harmonies that drift through the knotty arrangement like falling leaves; Knishkowy built a loop from electric guitar that became the backbone of the track. Other times, as with the epic title track, he looked back at lyrics he had written nearly a decade earlier and reconvened with his younger self.
Where this process might lead some songwriters to seek resolution, it only encouraged Knishkowy to ask more questions. In fact, there has never been more searching on an Adeline Hotel record. Am I dreaming? Am I living? Did I grieve enough? Where will I begin? By now, we are accustomed to turning to Knishkowy’s lyrics for stability amid prolonged stretches of turbulence. But on Watch the Sunflowers, he seems less interested in summoning wisdom than simply enduring. Plenty of images across the record bring this feeling to life—the “holy visions” in “Dreaming,” his “eyes open wide while swimming” in “Swimming,” the struggle to find stability in creative fields that recurs like a creeping anxiety. Across the songs, Knishkowy quotes sources ranging from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (“Wondering if there was good kinds of hustlers”) to Cass McCombs (“I’m nobody’s puppy, nobody’s dog.”), all in the spirit of buttressing a narrator in suspended freefall.
As is often the case with Adeline Hotel, the vision is fully realized with the enrapturing sound of the music: another distinct entry in a discography that is growing more complex and textured with each new entry. Knishkowy has situated this record in part of an interconnected, time-jumping trilogy that includes the climactic Whodunnit and a more resolved record to follow. This in-between state puts these songs—vivid but ghostly, slow-forming yet urgent in their emotional character—in a strange place. And yet, few songwriters seem so poised to narrate from this bleary vantage. “Light illuminates the dust between our lives, some things take a little while,” he sings in the opening “Dreaming,” as if narrating his own creative process. “I was free again if only for a moment.” On Watch the Sunflowers, a moment is all it takes to see things clearly. — Sam Sodomsky
Adeline Hotel recently released, Watch The Sunflowers, This follows last year’s Whodunnit (which received acclaim from Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, The Fader) and the instrumental records Hot Fruit, and previously Good Timing. He has opened for folks like Marlon Williams, Naima Back, Brigid Mae Power, and William Tyler.
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An acclaimed educator, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist, Cameron Knowler specializes in the art of the conceptual record, putting forth instrumental works that Folk Radio UK has referred to as “Western sound-painting.” His craft follows in the theoretical footsteps of instrumentalist and songwriter Norman Blake and expands upon that territorial folk convention: Knowler brandishes a post-modern perspective on American traditional music that nods to both his formal theory training and his roots in the American West.

Featuring contributions from Jordan Tice (of Hawktail), Jay Bellerose, Harrison Whitford, Rayna Gellert, Dylan Day, Mark Goldenberg, Rich Hinman and Robert Bowlin, CRK, a self-titled affair, finds Cameron Knowler at an exciting crossroads between American tradition and forward looking guitar soli – toeing the line between personal regionalism and the universality of landscape memory. CRK draws on the history and geography of Knowler’s birthplace of Yuma, Arizona- a border town known for its lettuce production and defunct territorial prison. In line with the regional ethos of the composer Frantz Casseus and the minimalism of Bruce Langhorne, this instrumental guitar record launches into a world of desert sun, propane tanks, dark jail cells, and the verdant Colorado. Knowler ferries listeners across a sensitively crafted world with deft, understated playing, pushing the current of instrumental acoustic music forward through lush original compositions, while keeping an eye on tradition with his singular arrangements of old time fiddle tunes. With what many describe as the closest thing to the right hand of Norman Blake, Knowler’s delivery also nods to the work of creative outsiders Terry Allen and David Rawlings.
With this work, Knowler sonically illuminates untold stories of the Sonoran, lending a voice to the pictorial canon made famous by Dorothea Lange and western films such as “3:10 to Yuma.” There is a sense of interiority to the record as well, Knowler says, noting that he “grew up isolated, unschooled in a desert with very little contact with children my own age.” He only returned to his hometown recently to revisit places held in memory, and CRK stands as a direct result of unpacking those landscapes coded with personal darkness. By creating an outward-facing work of art, Knowler strives to “make sandcastles out of grief” and emblazon the diorama of his youth.
With CRK, the world receives a sound poem, a memory palace that stands as a document of both personal grief and acceptance of the many dimensions of a place. We hear the sweeping landscapes of the Sonoran desert, and the darkness housed therein, even in The Sunniest Place on Earth.
“Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the future of what the guitar can be. Everything you want from an instrumental guitar record is all here.”– Hayden Pedigo
“CRK! What a fantastic piece of hope medicine you released. Congratulations and great work! It’s fantastic and so inspiring.” — The Tallest Man on Earth
“Love the record. You’re doing something totally rooted in tradition but totally new.” — Matt Combs
“Cameron writes guitar music that sounds like it has always existed and was simply excavated from the fretboard. To me, that is the highest ideal of guitar tunecraft.” — Jordan Tice
“Such a beautiful record wholly yours and unlike anyone else.” — Joseph Terrell

Gobbledegook
2026-07-21 20:00 - 22:00
A new monthly spoken word evening hosted by Welsh poet Rob Edwards at the Puzzle Hall Community Pub.
Poetry. Comedy. Storytelling. Bardic ramblings. Beautiful madness.
10 minute performance slots.
All voices welcome — first timers and seasoned performers alike.
The first ever Gobbledegook lands on Tuesday 21st July, 8 — 10 pm, and continues every 3rd Tuesday of the month.Come along and help start something special.

Jazz Night with Archipelago
2026-07-23 20:00 - 23:00
Archipelago formed in Newcastle/Gateshead in 2016 and consists of:
Faye MacCalman (Composer, Saxophone, Clarinet, Synth, Vocals)
John Pope (Bass, Effects)
Christian Alderson (Drums, Percussion)

Archipelago’s uncompromising ability to fit into one genre is a raw, fully charged musical experience. Their last album ‘Echoes To The Sky’ received 4 **** on its release and has been described as “original, evocative
and at times, haunting music” by Kevin Le Gendre on BBC Radio 3.
Supported by “BBC Introducing” and selected as “a highlight” from Latitude Festival for Tom Robinson’s BBC6 Music show, they were described as a “truly remarkable unit” by NARC Magazine.
Faye MacCalman takes influence from artists ranging from Joni Mitchell to Don Cherry to PJ Harvey, creating shimmering waves of sound that change rapidly from one song to the next, as Archipelago move between instruments and electronic effects that create illusions of several musicians, before peeling back to their raw trio form.

Warm Parts + Getner
2026-07-24 20:00 - 22:00
Combining Krautrock, Shoegaze and electonica into a psychedelish rush, Warm Parts are a Calderdale based band with a fast growing reputation. Gaining renown for their powerful live performances Warm Parts will have you grooving and swooning in equal measures.
“Fearsomely-awesome. A mesmeric total aural assaults on the senses” – International Times
“a kaleidoscope of krautrock escapism that blends the purposeful momentum of a good old-fashioned motorik anthem with the minimal, melodic wooziness of Slowdive” – Dirty Sunbeams
https://www.facebook.com/warmparts/
https://warmpartsband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@WarmParts

Manchester’s Getner are a young rock band who combine a love of the rebel rousing bravado of Irish folk and 70’s punk with a playful glam stomp. Fast gaining a reputation for their live shows in their adopted home city this is their first visit to the valley.
“Modernised vintage rock n roll tones with shaking, rattling and rolling reverence. One of the most promising Manchester bands on the scene” – A & R Factory
‘High energy punk with a raging groove’ – Gigshack
https://www.facebook.com/Getnermcr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ce0fyPms4U

Les Gillon & The Agents Of Karma
2026-07-25 21:00 - 23:00
Les Gillon & The Agents of Karma is a 5 piece acoustic line-up that features acoustic guitar, cello, piano, violin and hand percussion. Les Gillon is a Calderdale based singer, songwriter and guitarist who is best known as frontman of the alt-rock band Fez, but who throughout his long career has explored a whole range of musical territories, including experimental collaborations with dance and performance practitioners and longstanding work with folk trio Ghost School and improvisation collective Fire Tower 4.
This line-up takes his music into a very different context, by bringing together a group of great musicians from the worlds of jazz, classical and folk music. The result is a unique sound, sometimes intimate, sometimes cinematic, that defies categorisation and underpins the lyrical intensity of the songs.
The band’s debut album The Underground Session is available on all platforms and a new 4 song EP is available from 1st May.
Les Gillon: guitar and vocals
Julia Farrants: cello
Jen Trott: violin and vocals
Dave Nelson: piano and vocals
Andrew Duncan: percussion
Videos: Live in the studio
Facebook page
Bandcamp Page
“They absolutely blew everyone away with their incredible performance, top quality musicianship, innovative musical expressions and powerful songwriting.” Mobius Loop

“…draw from a melting pot of classic genres, coalescing into sounds and styles that are both familiar and authentic. Their infectious and often haunting melodies are performed with world class musicianship and feeling resulting in a truly visceral listening experience. Make a point of seeing them!” Tony Rigg, Music Industry Consultant and Producer

The Memphis Cruisers
2026-07-26 16:00 - 19:00
The Memphis Cruisers are a hard working rockabilly band hailing from the wild west of Yorkshire (otherwise known as Bradford).Covering a range of rockabilly songs from the likes of Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley, to The Stray Cats, Matchbox and Imelda May. With their witty banter,”feel good” vibes and rollicking energy no toes will remain untapped.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063581288428#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R1F0DihVI
“They know how to create a fantastic atmosphere and had people shaking their hips and tapping their feet” Yorkshire Live
“A top-class rockabilly band!” – The York Press

Jazz Night with Crooked Steps
2026-07-30 20:00 - 23:00
8.15pm start – Free admission, Collection towards the band taken; Please be generous if you can…
Crooked Steps
Laydeez n Genl’e men, for your pleasure, we’re featuring a brand new band put together by one of Jazz Live!’s favourite’s – bassist Paul Baxter. The trio will be performing music inspired by, amongst others, Sound Garden, Acoustic Ladyland, Tom Waits, Ornette Coleman….et al.
Tom Townsend, drumsPete Williams, tenor saxophone,Paul Baxter, electric & double bass
The music will be coalescing in a jazz-rock manifestation, reminiscent of Back Door but with a few extra bits and pieces!
Trains:If you’re travelling towards Halifax / Bradford / Leeds, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 00.03.
If you’re travelling up the Calder Valley, and onwards to Manchester, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 23.22.
Please allow 15 minutes to walk from the pub to the station, and please check, on the day of travel, that the times have not changed, or that strike actions are being planned.
Bus:There’s a 579 bus to Halifax that leaves Station Road at 23.48, just a few minutes’ walk from the Pub, however, give yourself plenty of time, as it’s the last bus, it can be pretty sharp in setting off.

Cosmic Visions:Festival of Psychedelia
2026-08-01 16:00 - 23:00
Get ready to have your mind blown in the most pleasant and invigorating way at COSMIC VISIONS. Calderdale’s very own festival of psychedelia is back! You will experience all manner of mind expanding music from the gentle and meditative to the awe inspiring and bone quaking. This is a payf event. The following acts are taking part :

MIDNIGHT AURUM is an experimental guitarist creating beautiful miniature compositions for solo guitar taking inspiration from classical, jazz, blues, psychedelia, folk culture and the Fae.
https://midnightaurum.bandcamp.com/

ADMIRAL DROWSY is the song writing veneer of Luke Redfern Scott. After a lenthly time overseas, Luke is currently back in West Yorkshire and has reconvened with a group of old friends forming a new band, The Narwhals creating music with numerous guitars, drums, a few synthesisers and other potential oddities. His music has an unsettling dream- like quality with expressive yet restrained vocials and an off kilter ambience all its own. Expect a woozy ride that’ll take you to a place where lullaby pop mixes with wild shoegaze abandon.
“Like Syd Barrett if he’d survived, straightened up and reverted back to literate and idiosyncratic pop” – Elsewhere
“Challenging, adventurous and downright ominous” – RNZ
https://admiraldrowsy1.bandcamp.com/album/shift
https://www.facebook.com/AdmiralDrowsy

GERALDINE SNELL‘s brand of ethereal art pop is a beguiling blend of the natural and synthetic, the earthly and the supernatural. Inspired by eclectic influences – from classical and choral music through to dreampop and downtempo jazz her own music merges avant-garde subtleties with a soft-centred indie synth pop sensibility which is always anchored by the magnetic tenderness of her voice.
https://geraldinesnell.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@geraldinesnell
“sugar-coated, dream-pop” – Dirty Sunbeams
“Tender, ethereal, and hypnotic, channeling similar vibes to Julie Cruise, Laurie Anderson, James Blake, and Beach House.” – Hot Vox

SKY VALLEY MISTRESS Combine the ferocious guitar fuzz of Queens of the Stone Age, the Stooges and Black Sabbath. With their winning combination of Kayley’s rich soul voice and Max’s yearning full-throttle melodies Sky Valley Mistress take you between peaks of mountainous riffs and depths of granite-heavy desert rock grooves.
https://www.facebook.com/skyvalleymistress/
https://www.instagram.com/skyvalleymistress/
https://skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com/album/luna-mausoleum
“Raucous rock and roll full of pace, power and explosive chemistry” – The Razor’s Edge
“A heavy, fuzzy, spaced-out ode to ’70s rock that manages to look to the future, even with one foot in the past” – Echoes And Dust

LEUCOTOME are a gothic Industrial folk band from Manchester who combine witchy pagan chants, electronic textures and minimalist pop into a heady brew in their sonic cauldron. Their sound reflects the murky depths of the UK DIY scene from which they crawled but takes their coldwave/post punk and goth influences somewhere magical and exciting
https://leucotome.bandcamp.com/track/tricoteuse-2
“Unplumbably murky and fascinating. The trio create shimmering and grinding theatre-folk like a lopsided Young Marble Giants” – The Quietus
“You’ll find yourself haunted by the divine genius of their electronically atmospheric sound” – Musik Magazine

JOSHUA ARNOLD & THERINE are an experimental folk duo known for their theatrical and intense performances. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist Joshua Arnold and vocalist Therine. They perform traditional folk music of the British Isles showcasing themes of the dark and macabre blended with elements of drone and noise music alongside original drone folk pieces and historically accurate charms and prayers.
https://joshuaarnoldandtherine.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/joshuaarnoldandtherine/
https://www.youtube.com/@JoshuaArnoldandTherine
“Their brooding, sinister drone-folk definitely casts a spell” – Folking.com
“Their minimalist approach sets themselves apart from the scene. Raw and unvarnished. Off-kilter and affecting.” – The Quietus

BILLY BILLY 5p are an internationally unsuccessful “supergroup” featuring the least competent members of Leeds bands Two Minute Noodles and Hillary and the Hatecrimes, Liverpool bands The Walkingseeds and Star Spangled Banana, Calderdale bands FADS and KLONK and other acts that you haven’t heard of either. Like the power rangers used to they come together to make something far stronger than their own weedy selves.Their music is inventive, fun and constantly surprising mixing power pop, psychedelia, space rock and classic indie into a charming sound all of their own.
https://billybilly5p.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoRocelsLg
https://www.instagram.com/billybilly5p/
“Eclectic, eccentric and thoroughly joyous” – Louder Than War

Acoustic Singaround Session
2026-08-02 13:00 - 16:00
Join us at the Puzzle Hall Inn, the 1st Sunday of each month for an acoustic afternoon informal singaround. All persons of all ages and skill levels welcome.
Hosting, will be the incredible Dave CalvertIn his own words: “Everyone is welcome to come along and sing, play, join in or just listen, the beer is great, as is the atmosphere. Its a lovingly restored, community owned pub which is continuing it’s long history of music events.”
Entry is free, hope to see you there.

Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders + Fire Tower 4
2026-08-03 20:00 - 22:00
Philadelphian psychonaught, JEFFREY ALEXANDER may very well be one of the most quietly prolific figures in modern psychedelic music. Since the 90’s in bands such Iditarod, Black Forest/Black Sea, Dire Wolves and now THE HEAVY LIDDERS he has fearlessly explored the outer and inner realms of psych. In his new group The Heavy Lidders Jeffrey and the band take inspiration from folk, jazz and rock in a playful and exploratory way creating music which has drive and groove but plenty of space for improvisation.
“Quietly transcendent, deep and cosmically curious” – Psychedelic Scene
‘Jammed-up improvisations that have substance as well as sense and sensibility. This band can go anywhere and everywhere covering an immense ground between left-field bluegrass and blues to spiritual jazz (and then back again)’ – Echoes and Dust
‘Jeffrey Alexander is, without a doubt, one of the most creative and experimental musicians working today.’ – The Sleeping Shaman
https://jeffreyalexander.bandcamp.com/…/jeffrey…
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dtqxdyzkmy7xlrr3iaselo6o
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshY68lH_RlDQlnJMGfTaUw

FIRE TOWER 4 is a collective of improvising musicians from a variety of musical backgrounds, who work without preset material or structure producing music created in the moment and never to be repeated. With a sound that shifts and gently mutates over time, each FT4 gig evolves through the interaction between musicians in an act of instant composition, with influences drawn from kraut rock, minimalism, techno, psychedelia, hip-hop and jazz, no two Fire Tower 4 performances are the same.
https://lesgillon.org/firetower4/
https://www.facebook.com/firetowerfour/mentions/
https://soundcloud.com/user-487796314

Folk Night with Satnam Galsian and floor spots
2026-08-06 20:00 - 23:00
Incoming LORE,Thurs 6 August at the Puzzle Hall Inn, #SowerbyBridge: SATNAM GALSIAN is a Leeds-based progressive folk singer who seamlessly and enchantingly blends the British and Hindustani traditions;
Having trained at Birmingham Conservatoire, Satnam’s agile, entrancing voice vaults above, and interweaves with hypnotic harmonium and shruti box drones – navigating a broad repertoire that flows from self-penned songs and movements, to the likes of Sadda Chiriya Da Chamba (We Are Like Birds), a Punjabi song traditionally sung during bridal preparations; her March 2026 single ‘Dishonour’ reworks the Irish standard ‘She Moved Through the Fair’ to explore honour-based abuse.
Both solo and with her trio Kinaara, Satnam has gigged extensively at the intersections of the UK folk and underground music scenes, and contributed to projects and productions stemming from BBC Radio 4 to Opera North.
This is an intimate opportunity to see one of the most vibrant, vital artists in the UK folk scene today. If the weather’s nice, we may even move proceedings to the Puzzle’s splendid garden!
As ever, this event is free entry, with a pay-what-you-feel collection to support the booked artists.
Each LORE also offers floor spots for local folk singers & musicians;
So please do come down/get involved as a performer/spread the word by sharing our posts & inviting others/follow our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/lorefolk
Plus our Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lore_folk

SmudgeSmith
2026-08-08 20:30 - 23:00
About Smudgesmith.
Ant “Smudge” Smith and Christopher Smith, a duo hailing from the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, embark on a two-piece project that delves into the realm where improvisation, texture, and rhythm seamlessly merge into a single, ever-evolving flow. Their soundscape is a harmonious blend of krautrock pulse, ambient atmospheres, jazz spontaneity, and experimental electronic forms, crafted around Smudge’s electronics and baritone guitar, complemented by Chris’s drums and percussion.

Garron Frith
2026-08-09 16:00 - 18:00
After a fourteen year’s since his last release, Garron Frith has a new album coming out called The Rub, it will be available on the usual streaming sites with physical CDs and merch at www.garronfrith.co.uk soon.
“An outstanding album from start to finish” – Penny Black Music.“The new record is quite simply a bluesy/folk rock marvel.” – FATEA.“He has a superb voice and album is spectacularly laid back and really enjoyable and at times it is captivating” – DIY Magazine.“All in all an excellent sophomore album that, to reiterate, promises much for the future of this talented artist. Many‘superstars’ have made less creditable second albums!”- American Roots.

Makuta + The Tragettes
2026-08-15 20:00 - 23:00
MAKUTA is Doug, Aleata, and Rose Makuta, an American cinematic rock band out of New York. Their album, released in 2025, has been supported by extensive touring — both domestically and internationally (including a headlining date at the world-renowned Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland). Their songs have been featured on Wells Fargo, CBS, and more, and they have also collaborated, and written for/with fellow artist friends, including Janis Ian, Ab-Liva, Ron Carter, and others.

Pressgang Mutiny featuring DJ Trullii and Kimbers Men
2026-08-16 20:00 - 22:30
We are delighted to be hosting our great friends from Canada, the fantastic PRESSGANG MUTINY, at the PUZZLE HALL, Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax on Sunday 16th August at 8.00 pm onwards. It’ll be a joint gig with us but it’s a rare treat to have these boys in our neck of the woods so we shall be letting them do most of the work!
Come and join us for a night of shanties and songs.
It’s FREE ENTRY with a hat collection going around at half time.
