About this Event

The Buffalo Skinners began life as a busking band in 2010, channelling their old folk and skiffle heroes to small crowds in Scarborough.



5 years and tens of thousands of miles later the band have earned themselves a sizeable group of fans in the UK, Europe and the west coast of America. (last Summer alone their van covered ground equivalent of half the circumference of the world!)



They play their own twist on folk. Lyric-centred songs arranged in a beat-pop style with inventive arrangements of instruments and harmonies. The songs are penned by the band's three main writers (Robbie Thompson, Peter Seccombe and James Nicholls) and document their tales and travels through work, love, death as well as more specific situations, such as being mugged and losing all your money in William Hill. They are proud for their tunes to have received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 music shows including spins by Dermot O'Leary, Bob Harris, Steve Lamacq, Cerys Matthews and Janice Long.





In September 2014 The Buffalo Skinners were selected by BBC Introducing to play at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park with ELO and Blondie and they have played at many other renowned music festivals including Wilderness, Boomtown, Camp Bestival, Deer Shed, The Beverley Folk Festival, Truck Festival and Tramlines. Their music has taken them all over the UK as well as to France (twice), Las Vegas, Southern California, has put them in all kinds of situations and has even earned them an appearance on the BBC 2 television documentary, ‘Towns' playing their version of traditional folk song 'Scarborough Fair.'

The Buffalo Skinners currently live in Sheffield and are writing and recording songs for their third album, which they plan to release in Spring 2016."



"Fantastic!"

- Bob harris, BBC Radio 2



"Unfeasibly young and talented "

- No Depression Magazine



"I've never seen The Duchess so packed out for a supposedly unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar band"

- Jericho Keys, BBC Introducing / BBC Radio 1



Holy Moly + The Crackers

Holy Moly and the Crackers are a "gypsy folk and roll" band, based in the UK. They released their debut album "First Avenue" in October 2012 and an EP "Lilly" a year later - described as "a re-imagining of three traditional folk/blues songs that evokes eras of whiskey and guns on modern punk folk steroids". Tracks from the album and EP have been played by Amazing Radio, BBC Introducing and leading music critic Mike Harding.

After only two years they are making an impact on both the local