“Summer Folk” - Canopy Theatre, Hungate Church, Beccles Friday 26th June 2026 7.30 p.m.
Following the highly successful “Winter Folk” and “Autumn Folk” shows held at the Canopy Theatre, the same team present another special seasonal show. This time the event is to raise funds for the Blossom Charity which helps people live their best lives by offering workshops, coaching and makeover days to those going through health challenges, life changing events or who lack the confidence to take control. Based in Eye, Suffolk, Blossom has helped over 1,000 people since its launch in 2013, through a range of courses that support well-being, build confidence and bring the joy back to life. Find out more at www.theblossomcharity.co.uk
The show will feature original, contemporary and traditional songs for the summer season in the wonderful setting and excellent acoustics of the Canopy Theatre.
Featured artists Peter and Jane are a husband and wife duo from Suffolk, who love making music. Their original songs and tunes are influenced by the broad spectrum that is the folk genre and their performances always include a joyful selection of traditional material, arranged to suit the duo’s voices and instruments. These instruments include flute, whistles, guitar, banjo and small pipes.
Whether playing Scottish airs, Irish jigs & reels, or singing bluegrass favourites, traditional ballads or one of their own songs Peter and Jane have an accomplished and thoughtful style centred around close harmony between instruments and voices.
They have performed at many folk festivals including Ely, Bungay, Bury and the Harlequin Fayre, played at folk clubs across the region, headlined 2 shows at the Canopy Theatre and supported top Canadian singer/songwriters Dan McKinnon and James Keelaghan when they Performed at the same venue in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
Most recent album “The Traveller’s Cloak” was released in 2025 to excellent reviews in FATEA and Songlines magazines and Folk London and gained good radio coverage.. Check out their youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClj0s2I7uFWT4pTiDnIWz7A and their website https://www.peterandjane.co.uk
Silver Moon are Suffolk based husband and wife duo Martin & Sarah Lovett. Martin has been a member of various bands (including 90’s folk/rock band Instant Chaos!) and several duos as well as performing solo. He sings, plays guitar, tenor guitar, guitarlele and percussion and writes songs (including the “Anglian Tales” song cycle telling stories of real life, myths and legends of East Anglia, which was premiered at the Beccles Charter Day celebrations in 2017). He has supported double FATEA Award-winner Hannah Scott several times at the Canopy Theatre.
Sarah sings and plays percussion and she and Martin have been performing together as a duo since 1999 with a wide range of styles from folk to Americana to pop. They have performed at many venues across Suffolk and Norfolk as well as a number of folk festivals further afield (including the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival) and Lowestoft’s Gig On The Green. Sarah is also an Award-winning author with stories published in regional and national magazines.
Jolly Good Company are a new folk collective of friends who play various instruments and love to sing. The members live and perform regularly at local Folk sessions in Norfolk and Suffolk and at afternoons arranged by the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust around East Anglia and some have performed at previous shows at the Canopy Theatre. They sing some lively chorus songs which audiences are encouraged to join in with.
This is a “pay what you can” event (with a default price of £5) and tickets are available from www.ticketsource.com/martello-promotions and 0333 666 3366