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The Big Boulder Music & Arts Festival 2016 – Sunday 4th Sept,12-6pm
The fifth annual Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival will be taking place at the Heeley People’s Park on Sunday, September 4th, brought to you by Heeley Development Trust. Performers on the main stage will include Black Cat White Cat, Paul Littlewood, Don Barrell Gents, Vera Van Heeringen, Julian Jones and the Angel Brothers, while […]
Chris Wood – Live at The Heeley Institute, Sat 7th May – 8.00pm onwards
April 25, 2016 by heeleyonline
Widely regarded as one of the leading English singer/songwriters of his generation, Chris has twice been named BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of the Year and twice been awarded BBC Radio 2’s Original Song of the year. He is also an acclaimed interpreter of traditional music from the UK and Europe, and is the founder […]
The Monster Ceilidh Band – 18th Sept @ Heeley Institute
September 13, 2015 by heeleyonline
The Monster Ceilidh Band will be performing at The Heeley Institute from 8pm on Friday, 18th September, The band will be playing material from their recently released album Charge!, creating fully electronic ceilidhs and combining traditional dance forms with contemporary electronic and drum and bass music, weaving together smelting riffs, massive chord progressions, intense electronics, folk […]
THE BIG BOULDER MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL – SUN, 6TH SEPT 12.00-6.00PM @ HEELEY PEOPLE’S PARK
August 30, 2015 by heeleyonline
The fourth annual Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival will be taking place at the Heeley People’s Park on Sunday, 6th September from 12noon – 6pm. There’ll be food stalls, beer tent, arts & crafts and family activities throughout the day, with music on the main stage from Early Cartographers, The Angel Brothers, The Cuckoo […]
Big Boulder Rolls on @ The Heeley Institute
February 16, 2015 by heeleyonline
A few tickets are still available for two upcoming gigs at the Heeley Institute, Chris Wood on Saturday 7th March and Stefan Grossman on Friday 10th April. Widely regarded as one of the leading English singer/songwriters of his generation, Chris has twice been named BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of the Year and twice been […]
Big Tent & The Gypsy Lantern (+ support) @ Heeley Institute, Sat 11th October
October 5, 2014 by heeleyonline
Big Tent and the Gypsy Lantern, with The Bronze in support, will be performing at the Heeley Institute on Saturday, October 11th. Tom, Paul, Danny and George formed Big Tent after performing around the world with various different folk collectives and projects, releasing their debut album ‘Richest Man Today’ in 2012 after graduating from the […]
Coope Boyes & Simpson @ Heeley Institute – Sun 21st Sept – 8pm
September 12, 2014 by heeleyonline
After a summer break to organise the 2014 Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival, Big Boulder Promotions will be returning to the Heeley Institute with an autumn/winter program of intimate roots music performances including O’Hooley and Tidow, Martin Carthy and Big Tent and the Gypsy Lantern. Performing on Sunday, 21st September, Barry Coope, Jim […]
The Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival 2014 @ Heeley Park, Sun 7th Sept – 12-6.30pm
August 30, 2014 by heeleyonline
Heeley Park will be hosting the 2014 Big Boulder Music and Arts Festival between 12pm – 6.30pm on Sunday, September 7th. The culmination of another year of intimate roots music gigs at the Heeley Institute, the third annual music and arts festival has been organised by Big Boulder Promotions to feature live performances from Orchestre […]
Call for Artists, Crafters, Makers & Creators for Big Boulder 2014
July 14, 2014 by heeleyonline
The third Big Boulder Music & Arts Festival will take place on Sunday 7th September, 12-6pm in Heeley Park. Heeley Park is Sheffield’s largest community owned park, built and looked after by Heeley Development Trust since 1996 on behalf of the local community. The park does not receive any statutory funding, therefore ongoing grant funding and […]
Curtis Eller’s American Circus (+ support from Sieben) @ Heeley Institute – Sat 5th April – 8pm onwards
March 24, 2014 by heeleyonline
The Big Boulder Rolls On will be bringing Curtis Eller and his American Circus to Heeley on Saturday, April 5th as part of a nation-wide tour also passing through London, Bristol and Manchester. The New York-based banjo playing yodeller is touring the UK with both American and British musicians for the first time, and will […]
Martin Carthy @ Heeley Institute – Sat 1st Feb – 8pm onwards
January 23, 2014 by heeleyonline
World-renowned music interpreter, singer and guitarist Martin Carthy, described by Q Magazine as ‘Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all’, will be performing at the Heeley Institute on Saturday, February 1st. Awarded an MBE for services to English Folk Music in 1998, Martin is part of a musical […]
Brooks Williams (+ support from Paul Littlewood) @ Heeley Institute – Fri 17th Jan – 8pm onwards
January 2, 2014 by heeleyonline
Brooks Williams will be performing at the Heeley Institute on Friday, January 17th as part of the Big Boulder Festival 2014 fundraising nights. Brooks has spent the last 25 years playing American and Blues on stages and at festivals worldwide, and has been described by Dirty Linen as ‘one of America’s musical treasures’. Ranked as one […]
Tcha Limbergers Kalotaszeg Trio (+ support by Richard Masters) @ Heeley Institute – Sun 24th November – 8pm onwards
November 21, 2013 by heeleyonline
On Sunday, November 24th one of the finest multi-instrumentalists in the world will be at the Heeley Institute as part of the Big Boulder Rolls on. Born in Belgium to a long line of Romani musicians, Tcha Limberger was playing guitar at the age of six and giving solo concerts by the time he was eight; […]
4Square (+ support from Moore Moss Rutter) @ Heeley Institute – Sat 23rd November – 8pm onwards
November 21, 2013 by heeleyonline
Contemporary folk quartet 4Square will be appearing at the Heeley Institute on Saturday, November 23rd as part of the Big Boulder Rolls On. Formed outside Rochdale in 2006, 4Square put themselves on the wider contemporary folk map with a now legendary performance at the Cropredy Convention in 2009, which resulted in the band selling out their debut album […]
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