Solstice @ Granby Winter Garden

Join us for a once off, early evening, intimate event of music and community at the exquisite Granby Winter Garden celebrating the midpoint of the year... the Summer Solstice!

With music performances from Jessica Dives, Flap Donahue and Loris & The Lion.

BYOB but most importantly... bring your joyful selves and share in a bit of Saturday Summer Solstice Community.

Doors @ 5.30pm

Music from 6pm

Finish @ 8.30pm

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jessica Dives

"An exciting New Talent" -

Born and raised in Essex, adopted by the North West, Jessica is a promising up and coming Folk Singer Songwriter with a vibrancy that shines through in her material and performance.

Described by Americana UK as 'An exciting new talent', Jessica is already making her mark in the folk scene: she was a Purbeck Rising 2025 Shortlisted artist; the winner of Liverpool Songwriting Challenge 2024; and one of the selected artists to feature in the FATEA Spring Showcase. She has supported acts such as Katie Spencer, Calum Gilligan and Kathryn Williams.

Jessica delights with heartfelt and earnest storytelling, simple and heartbreaking lyricism, and catchy, soaring melodies, delivered with a vocal quality that stops you in your tracks - a voice compared to powerful voices such as Eddi Reader and Sarah Harmer.

Her blend of personal and traditional folklore focussed on the intersection of the natural and emotional world results in a body of work that warms the listener through and lingers long after.

Loris & The Lion

Loris and the Lion weave gentle tales of joy and loss; a patchwork of sonic delights to soothe the soul and feed the heart. An alt-folk/post classical duo from Liverpool, navigating life together accompanied by fairytales and folklore.

Calling to mind the sounds and spirit of Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom, and Jesca Hoop, their music intertwines complex lyrical melodies and narrative lyrics with undulating harmonies and gentle textures. Delicate fingerstyle acoustic guitar and harmonium, cascading piano and clarinet, and shimmering bowed electric guitar all blend with simultaneously fragile yet powerful vocals to create a captivating soundworld that bewitches audiences.

They have supported the likes of Ye Vagabonds, Jesca Hoop, Kathryn Williams, Rozi Plain and Siv Jakobsen, and have performed at festivals such as Cambridge Folk Festival, Purbeck Valley Folk Festival and Unwedding Festival. They released their debut EP Jorinde and Joringel in 2021, and it received album of the year awards from For Folk Sake and Bido Lito. After a period of writing, reflection, marriage and more, they are currently recording new music, the first glimpses of which is set to be released this year.

Flap Donahue

Flap Donahue is a living Folk musician who's music has been interpreted and desribed as 'Alt-Folk' by at least one Merseyside music establishments ear drums. Flap Donahue is now on a path of destruction, aiming to turn the genre on its head, one song at a time.

Flap Donahue is a sculptor of words, creating songs built on the foundations of sophisticated musicianship and confident, focussed wordsmithery. There is a simplicity and direct quality to Flap Donahue's imagery and a vulnerability in his performance that is impossible to ignore. A truly captivating artist.

Off the back of his recent EP release, it is so exciting to share his work with you in this perfectly intimate setting as a backdrop.

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