Thomas Mccarthy/Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne

A regular at the 'old' Musical Traditions Club, we are very pleased to offer this new date for Thomas McCarthy, rescheduled from March 2026.

Thomas says: "I sing wherever Im invited, at clubs, festivals, people's houses, weddings, funerals, christenings, at home, down the road and over the sea.

I have sung all over the UK and Europe.

I have sung at festivals including Whitby Folk Week, Sidmouth FolkWeek, the Fife Traditional Singing Festival, Brosella Folk & Jazz Festival (Belgium), the South Roscommon Singers festival (Knockcroghery) and the Frank Harte Festival (Dublin) where I shared a stage with Christy Moore.

I have been invited to folk clubs including the Cellar Upstairs, Walthamstow Folk Club, the Musical Traditions club and the An Goilin club in Dublin.

I have toured with Ron Kavana and Sam Lee, all around England, Scotland, Wales and Europe."Described in The Living Tradition as captivating, bold and striking, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is at the forefront of his generation of English folk musicians as both a powerful and commanding singer and a masterful player of the Anglo concertina and melodeon.Cohen's music is rooted in the English folk tradition, celebrating the age-old musical heritage of this broad and diverse land.

Traditional ballads, songs and tunes form the basis of Cohen's material, but with a smattering of early music, ragtime, and music hall thrown in for good measure along with regular forays into the music of the Caribbean.Cohen has released three critically acclaimed solo albums; his debut Outway Songster (2017) was described in fRoots as the best debut album by a young British performer for many a day and led to Cohen being nominated for the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2018.

Rakes & Misfits (2021) followed with Cohen exploring songs and stories of social outcasts and reprobates.

In 2024 Cohen released his ground-breaking Play Up The Music which explores the little-known connection between English folk and the music of the Caribbean and Black America.

The album received widespread critical acclaim along with national airplay, an extensive feature in The Guardian and landed Cohen with a slot on BBC 1.