Making a welcome return to the Wesley Centre in October 2026, is the award-winning musician, singer and composer Phil Beer.

With a professional career that started in the 1970's, Phil is best known as the founder of the West Countryʼs award winning acoustic duo, Show of Hands. He has also been a member of the Albion Band and has toured with Mike Oldfield, Johnny Coppin and played sessions for acts as varied as Steve Harley, Jackie Oates, Pete Townsend and The Rolling Stones.

He has a great deal of material to draw on for his solo appearances, which are an eclectic mix of traditional tunes, covers of Springsteen or The Hollies, together with his own compositions and songs from his contemporaries.

A vocalist and dazzling multi-instrumentalist, Phil is a highly accomplished fiddler and also plays guitar, mandocello and mandolin. His songs and music are all of memory and significance and sung in the subtle and melodic Phil Beer style interjected with musings and amusings. It is a treat of past and current favourites from one of the most popular musicians on the acoustic circuit.