BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3a752646-5101-4d8b-8eb7-7c47bd2151b0@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260815T130759 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261119T193000 SUMMARY:Findlay Napier live at Rosslyn Court LOCATION:Margate Rosslyn Court DESCRIPTION:- Winner of the MG Alba Composer of the Year Findlay Napier is widely regarded as one of thefinest performers on the UK music scene. He is as comfortable on the main Stage of Cambridge Folk Festival with folk r ock supergroup The Magpie Arc as he is in an intimate acoustic show in the back room of a pub. This fact was further highlighted when Napier was the first solo act ever to be nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scot ’s Trad Music awards in 2018. Tirelessly creative he has been touring an d releasing music since the early naughties. First with groundbreaking tra d folk band Back of the Moon\, then with Nu-Folk pioneers Findlay Napier a nd the Bar Room Mountaineers and most recently as a solo act working under the guidance of legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine.In 2025 he was chosen\ , alongside Kate Rusby and Richard Thompson\, to compose an originalsong f or BBC Radio 2’s “21st Century Folk”. He performed his song “Firec racker” on live on The Jeremy Vine Show and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.Hi s breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons\, produced by Boo Hewerdine\, wasnumber 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He f ollowed it with 2017’s Glasgowdescribed by The Scotsman as “a paean to his adopted home town” which led to a number of high profile gigs inclu ding a five tours as the opening act for Eddi Reader. In 2021 he released It Is What It Is a collaboration album in all but name with producer and m ulti-instrumentalist Angus Lyon which Folk Radio UK called\, ”A captivat ing\, indispensable work\; it is what it is and what it is\, is magnificen t."Described as a “miracle lyricist’ by the Sunday Herald and “an or iginal and engaging treat” by The Telegraph his skills as a songwriter a nd collaborator have led him to work on some surprising and interesting pr ojects. In 2017 he was invited to take part in Greg Russell’s ‘Shake t he Chains’ project with Nancy Kerr and Hannah Martin where they toured\, recorded and released a double live album. After meeting award winning so ngwriter Megan Henwood at an EFDSS songwriting retreat he formed the duo T he Story Song Scientists writing songs about science releasing two EPs and touring the UK. In late 2021 he joined folk rock supergroup The Magpie Ar c with Martin Simpson\, Tom A Wright\, Alex Hunter and Nancy Kerr performi ng on festival main stages and arts centres across the UK. Their debut alb um Glamour in the Grey\, featuring three of Napier’s original songs incl uding a co-write with Maz O’Conner was released in October 2022.He is of ten commissioned to write songs including one for The 2014 Commonwealth Ga mes in Glasgow\, two songs for Morgan Fisher’s Miniatures 2020 and more recently penning the anthem “Union Strong” for the 125th anniversary o f the Scottish TUC.As a teaching artist he regularly runs songwriting work shops. He set up Glasgow SongwritingFestival in 2016 and consults on vario us other songwriting events and festivals around the UK. He has hosted man y songwriting retreats at Moniack Mhor (Scotland’s Creative Writing Cent re) alongside Boo Hewerdine\, Karine Polwart and Bella Hardy and works wit h Vox Liminus and Feis Rois delivering music and songwriting workshops in Scottish prisons.Findlay lives on the Isle of Arran with his family. His l atest album Outsider was released in April 2025 as a CD and an incredible 154 page coffee table book featuring augmented reality content.PRESS FROM EPK:"... one of the finest songwriters and storytellers of the contemporar y Scottish folk scene." Folk Radio UK (Glasgow)"Coming on like a Caledonia n Loudon Wainwright ... A superbly crafted compilation ofSongs" Acoustic M agazine (Glasgow) Rosslyn CourtExpect a small\, seated\, friendly\, quirky \, listening venue with a heart – we have a tiny bar selling beer\, wine \, cider\, gin! and hot and cold drinks -nibbly stuff and always a cake. T he venue is accessible\, on one level. You will be seated at tables or in rows\, according to numbers in the audience. If you need to use your phone for texting or lyrics\, please turn the brightness of your phone down and consider sitting near the back to minimise the impact. Arrive at 7pm to g et a seat\, a drink and a chat before the concert.The first hour of concer ts is livestreamed on YouTube. You can watch it any time after 7.30 on the night of the concert via the Rosslyn Court Website. There is an exclusive second set for the audience in the room\, including a Q&A with the perfor mers. We ask you to make a donation\, please\, when you watch the livestre am to help us to continue this service. In buying a ticket you are entered for the Rosslyn Court raffle. You may win a CD …or a “Who Gives A Cra p” emergency toilet roll! WGAC donate half their profits to water charit ies and are plastic free. People who donate or engage with the live chat d uring the concert are also entered into the raffle. There is usually a flo or singer and often a 2-minute community slot informing us of what happens locally. The second half starts with a Q&A and is not livestreamed. If yo u think of something you want to know more about in the first half\, just ask! Sometimes there is another floor song. The concerts usually finish we ll before 10. Except for Tim Edey because he is unstoppable. (We also run a B&B here hahaha)If you want to view the livestream after midnight of the concert date then go to the livestream option on the website where all th e old livestreams live. Tickets are usually £12. We have a few at £6 and some at £18 to help us to subsidise the concessionary tickets. Sometimes tickets are more.Please ring for more details\, 07902140248See you soonMo ragRosslyn Courtmorag@rosslyncourt.comwww.rosslyncourt.com/events 07902140 248 62 Sweyn Rd Margate CT92DD\n\nBoletos: https://wegottickets.com/event/ 687107 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/3a752646-5101-4d8b-8eb7-7c47bd2151 b0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR