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Join us for a series of intimate folk concerts at Cullercoats Watch House, a unique and quirky venue in the heart of Cullercoats. The evening will include a short support set. Please bring your own refreshments.

Holly & The Reivers

Forming in 2017 with a shared love and inspiration from groups such as Lanku, and The Furrow Collective, Holly & The Reivers came together through a love of singing together. Their music came to the attention of the Glasshouse International Centre for Music and in 2019 they supported Billy Bragg at the Folk on the Tyne Festival. Though firmly rooted in the folk song tradition the trios signature sound is comprised of their individual roots within old time music, Welsh song, supernatural ballads, political songs and Scottish fiddle and it is in these border lands of the folk genre that they thrive creatively without boudaries, bringing forth their own compositions that have been deeply influenced by traditional music. Holly Clarke (voice, guitar), Merle Harbron (voice, fiddle) and Bertie Amstrong (voice, banjo) weave their arrangements around these old songs and bring their voices together to create a sounscape that accompaies these old stories. This soundscape approach comes from the prolific influence of folk horror cinema, that the band views as a muse for their sound, both in a metaphorical sense as well as a musical. The Reivers lean toward the songs with a darker narrative tapestry, where the songs reveal the more sinister stories from humanities past. Whether it be a murmuring fiddle heralding the arriveal of a vengeful ghost or the powerful voices rising that embodies the message of a political song, Holly & The Reivers are a band that holds the story at the centre of what they do.

‘BRILLIANT MUSICAL STORYTELLERS THE REIVERS – A CLASS ACT FROM START TO FINISH’ – NANCY KERR
‘A SINGING COLLECTIVE THAT STEERS THE EMOTIONAL JOURNEYS CAPTURED IN THE SONGS THEY PLAY. THEY CHOOSE THEIR SONGS WELL, BUT THEY SING THEM EVEN BETTER.’- NE VOLUME
It is clear that Holly and The Reivers are special – MNPR Magazine