**A rare ritual with Sir Richard Bishop!**
Legendary guitarist of Sun City Girls comes to The Golden Lion for the first time, touring his 'Hillbilly Ragas' album, out now on Drag City Records (USA). With guest bansuri flautist Peter Digby Lee, plus Voice of the Seven Woods DJs.
PLEASE NOTE: LAST TRAIN FRIENDLY!
(For those travelling from Manchester and Leeds: you will have plenty of time to get your last trains after Sir Richard Bishop has finished his set)
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Sir Richard Bishop
Guitar as sorcery? Strings ignite shadows!.. An unshackled excursion into raw, rhythmic folk ragas and shadowy backwoods incantations…
“Bloodthirsty interpretive methods on a self-described “excursion into the dark woods..”
https://www.roughtrade.com/product/sir-richard-bishop/hillbilly-ragas
"Music to drive dancers before the fire, music that pulls you deeper into your “poor, pagan soul.”
https://klofmag.com/2025/08/sir-richard-bishop-pass-the-juggernaut-hillbilly-ragas/
"Not beholden to the usual set of rules, the veteran guitarist harnesses pure emotion, trying to figure out what genuinely raw, aggressive and rhythmic folk ragas might sound like."
https://boomkat.com/products/hillbilly-ragas
"He combines soulfulness and advanced technique with a panache that’s nearly unrivaled among today’s guitarists. Bishop strums spiritual with incantatory ragas, free-folk excursions, crystalline flamenco flourishes, ruddy Appalachian folk, Middle Eastern-tinged fantasias and gypsy arabesques. This is eclecticism done with respect and third-eye-dilating filigree; his compositions attain a sepia-toned wistfulness and a psychedelic complexity.”
-Dave Segal (OC Weekly)
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Peter Digby Lee
Peter Digby Lee is a flautist whose music bridges Hindustani classical tradition and contemporary electronic improvisation. A student of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, he blends the depth of raga with drone, tape loops, and electro-acoustic textures to create a sound that is both rooted and experimental. His work explores altered states, inner landscapes, and the meditative power of sound.
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DJ set from Voice of the Seven Woods’ Rick Tomlinson
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