The Houghton Weavers
CHAPMAN STUDIOShowing on Sun 16 Nov 2025
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Age Guidance: All Ages
THE HOUGHTON WEAVERS have been entertaining folk for a whopping 50 years! with their unique blend of popular folk music, humour and audience participation and have recorded over 30 albums.
Having recently performed as a headline Act at The Great British Folk Festival, their single “Wild Mountain Thyme” appeared in the Heritage Charts Top 40 and is due to appear in an upcoming film, ‘Between Weathers’.
THE HOUGHTON WEAVERS promise plenty of laughter with their infectious humour and funny stories galore. You’ll hear the old favourites such as Blackpool Belle, Sit Thi Deawn, Matchstalk Men and Dirty Old Town together with new songs penned by the lads, original poems and audience requests thrown in to make every show a little different!
The current line-up of Jim Berry and Steve Millington, featuring Simon Brady on guitar and mandolin, is an exciting combination which will certainly have you singing along to this feel-good show!
THE HOUGHTON WEAVERS guarantee a wonderful evening of entertainment and their experience – together with their style and professionalism – ensures that, as their motto says, they always `Keep Folk Smiling!’
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