12 Mar 2026, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Ordinary Joes + Robyn Wallis-Johnson
+ Gloria Monday

Last year Tom Chester performed a solo set for us, he is a superb musician and it’s always a delight to hear him. He also appeared last autumn as a one man backing orchestra for nel when she charmed us with her beautiful voice and very personal original songs.

So it’s great to welcome him back in a duo with Dave Westbrook, it will be a masterclass.

We met Robyn Wallis-Johnson at the Brampton Sessions Christmas Hootenanny last year and loved the power and character of her performance, She’s a true original and a great singer so it’s excellent to be able to showcase her talent at the Grand Ol’ Bowling Club

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday. All proceeds as usual will go to Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:15, music starts at 7:45pm

9 April 2026, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Julia Waldron + Charlie Osguthorpe
+ Gloria Monday

Julia really needs no introduction if you’ve been paying attention to music in Sheffield over the years, she is a wonderfully powerful, soulful singer who writes great songs with a good dollop of both feminism and humour.

She performs as one half of ‘Daisy Daisy’ with the bass player and jazz singer, Nicola Farnham and is the leader of the Orchestrators band performing classic folk roots and Americana. She is also one of the guiding hands of Under the Stars, the project that gets adults with learning disabilities and autism involved with the performing arts. Our fundraiser is a rare chance to see Julia playing solo.

Charlie Osguthorpe is an old friend, he writes very pointful songs with a strong social and political thread but mainly great lyrics performed with a voice of great power and character. He usually leads Mary’s Hammer but this is a chance to hear him solo so maybe we’ll see a more personal side of Charlie.

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday. All proceeds as usual will go to Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

14 May 2026, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Jig for a Kiss + Cold Bones + Gloria Monday

Jig for a Kiss, Chesterfield’s multi-instrumental, multi-talented folk big band always bring the house down, as well as filling our stage with more musicians than any other night. Lively, melodic and varied. Nothing to say really, get your tickets early because it will sell out.

Cold Bones is a Sheffield songwriter with real character, in the tradition of many of the great American singer/songwriters of the late 20th Century His songs and his performances are powerful and always worth attending to

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday. All proceeds as usual will go to Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

12 Feb 2026, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Glass Ships
+ Paul Chisnell & Richard Freeman
+ Gloria Monday

Last year Glass Ships helped us out by performing at short notice when we had a change of plan. We had not seen them before but we were blown away by their musical partnership, Great vocals and really excellent playing on guitar & harp, we were so please that of course we’ve asked them back.

Paul Chisnell is a very old friend and a brilliant singer, we’ve shared many stages with him, particularly when he was a member of Ar Faoued, but he also popped up at the Bowling Club a year ago, invited to sing with Treebeard. He has a new partnership with guitarist Richard Freeman and when we heard them playing a collection of classic jazz era songs with great guitar accompaniment. we had to invite them to the Grand Ol’ Bowling Club of course.

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday. All proceeds as usual will go to Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

13 Nov 2025, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Gloria Monday + Nel + Ade Hall

It’s the big night for Gloria Monday, when we are top of our own bill. We are hoping it will also be the launch of our first actual recorded mini-album/EP thing.
For the past two years we have become increasingly noisy and original, it’s been a great refreshment of our shared musical career after ten years of being Break a Leg which was lovely but a bit more sedate.
So we’ll have pointful songs, good time songs and a few old favourite pop songs and we hope you’ll join in.

Plus we’ve invited two special friends to play for you, people whose music we admire and who are just great to be with. Self-effacing Ade Hall, who we’ve been sharing stages with for longer than we can remember and writes terrific songs with strong local roots, and Nel, who is a beautiful singer with great warmth and generosity and one of our new best friends.

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

11 Dec 2025, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Sorry this event is now sold out

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Treebeard + Gloria Monday

It’s the end of the year, winter is on us and we need to have a party. So of course we have Sheffield’s most popular folk rock ensemble. Expect lots of dressing up, silliness and terrific music, they are a lot of fun but their playing is always sensationally good.

Treebeard’s very genial presiding genius, Chris MacMahon has been with us for longer than most can remember, he’s directly descended from Gandalf, leads ever-popular progressive rock band, Haze, as well as Treebeard, has a very impressive collection of hats and a tail he won in a bet with a lizard. His band lineups have changed over the years but many people feel that the current Treebeard is the best ever.

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday of course. Karen & Chris have been playing together for 11 years but they continue to explore new ideas and invent new songs

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

9 Oct 2025, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

On the Back Porch + Mike Richards
+ Gloria Monday

Two lovely people who are long time supporters and contributors at these events. Bob Delbridge and Issy Howie sum up what’s great about old time American music with beautiful harmonies, a warm presence and deep understanding of their art.

Issy was also a member of the Outlaw Sisters, who played for us a while back and were acclaimed for their wonderful three part harmonies. Bob is hailed as the reincarnation of Hank Williams in his role as frontman of Britain’s leading Honkytonk band, The Bapchilds

Mike Richards is another old friend who has done a huge amount to support and encourage live music in Sheffield, plus being a really great interpreter of songs. For a long time he was part of the greatly loved Americana group, Dogwood Rose, but it’s always a treat to hear him stepping out on his own account.

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday of course. Karen & Chris have been playing together for 11 years but they continue to explore new ideas and invent new songs

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:20, music starts at 7:45pm

18 Sep 2025, 7:45pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Sorry this event is Sold Out. You can add your name to the Returns list and we will offer any returned tickets to people on that list, in the order they are added

Lost Kind Words + PLUC + Gloria Monday

To start our 2025-26 season we are joining the Nether Edge Festival, a one week celebration of the arts and our community.

And we have two star guest duos, Lost Kind Words who perform beautiful soulful renderings of American music and the Pitsmoor Ladies Ukelele Chorale who combine beautiful harmonies with songs from the early years of pop music and absurdly silly tales of their musical careers.

Plus your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday of course. Karen & Chris have been playing together for 11 years but they continue to explore new ideas and invent new songs

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £5 in advance (£7 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:30, music starts at 7:45pm

8 May 2025, 8pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Lapwing soared across the Sheffield music scene with their exquisite harmonies and we were very lucky to have them as guests last year before they had to go separate ways.

But Captain Jack Avery is never quiet for long and he is back with Cowbird. This is quite different, expect lots of songs you will want to sing along with, old time/gospel/blues/cowboy favourites, lots of voices and instruments and a great deal of fun.

We will also have a set from Beki Dunn who has the knack of singing beautiful interpretations. Plus your resident stripped down Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday of course.

All income from ticket sales, raffle and collection will go to Rethink Mental Illness.

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £4 in advance (£5 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:30, music starts at 8pm

12 June 2025, 8pm start
Nether Edge Bowling Club

Two of the finest ornaments on the mantelpiece of Sheffield music making, Julie and Tim write great songs, Tim is a master of the guitar and cello and Julie sings exquisitely. Their album, ‘Made from a Broken Star’ was featured recently on Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone programme on Radio 6.

It’s a very long time since they were last able to play for us, with life getting in the way, so we are really pleased that they can play for us this year.

We will also have a set from Cold Bones, a great characterful Sheffield songwriter who went down a storm on his debut at thre Grand Ol’ Bowling Club last year.

And songs from your resident Orchestra of Truth, Gloria Monday of course

All income from ticket sales, raffle and collection will go to Rethink Mental Illness

Rethink Mental Illness runs the Sheffield Crisis House, offering 24 hour residential support for people experiencing acute mental health crisis. This short term but very focused intensive support can turn around the lives of people experiencing profound difficulties and distress.

Tickets £4 in advance (£5 on the night if there are any left)
8 Nether Edge Rd, Sheffield S7 1RU
Doors open 7:30, music starts at 8pm