The Pennine Way Tour with Johnny Campbell

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Following on from the success of his 2024 album, True North, acclaimed Folk artist Johnny Campbell embarks on a nineteen day tour like no other.

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Britain’s first long-distance path, The Pennine Way, he sets his compass north, from Edale, Derbyshire, traversing the ‘Backbone of England’. Across the wild moorlands, mountains and fells of Northern England, to finish in Kirk Yetholm, Scotland, a 268 mile journey of the Pennine Way, performing seventeen shows in nineteen days.

With a couple of sturdy boots, a trusty Ordnance Survey map, and a guitar on his back, this tour is a celebration of The Pennine Way, which encompasses shows in a myriad of iconic Pennine locations en route. From music venues and cafes, to the more obscure, such as Tan Hill.

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Brown Wimpenny, an 11-piece folk ensemble based in south Manchester. Described by The Quietus as a source of “energy, eccentricity, communion and joy”; they weave traditional music, from the British Isles and beyond, into a web of jigs, reels, hornpipes, drones, dense textures and choral harmonies.

Brown Wimpenny have featured at this year’s Green Man Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival and Northgate Folk Festival; sold-out five Manchester headline shows; and performed at renowned venues like Factory International and The Broadside Hacks Folk Club in London.

While all being involved in various classical, experimental, contemporary noise, post-punk, and electronic music projects, these young musicians are now poised to carve their slice of the scene from which to expand this big trad experiment