When Booit Straps Folk Club asked us if we wanted to do a Halloween special of murder ballads we nearly bit their hand off! (and then wrote a ballad about it).

We won’t pretend that this set would be any different from any other set that we do, murder is kinda our thing.

Looking forward to seeing all you ghosts and ghouls there.

A new adventure for us, this year is a year of firsts.

Folk on the Farm at Woodhouse Farm just outside Lichfield. We will be playing a 40 minute set at about 3pm.

Come brush off the winter blues and join us and others on 15th September.

Get your tickets here

Sunday 1st September 12pm - late! A day long, musical jamboree extravaganza, featuring 20+ back to back local artists!

Free entry, free music, and free good vibes thrown in for good measure.

There’s food to purchase, hot and cold drinks and booze for sale at the cafe.

We love Mandala cafe on Chesterfield Road, Sheffield. It’s shown itself to be a real community hub and safe space for anyone seeking some refuge and chilled vibes.

We’re set to play at about 10pm, but don’t come just for us. The whole day should be a luuurvly.

See you there!

A first for us at the Whatstandwell Festival

All we know is that we were invited by a man in a band called Analogue Electronic Whatever - if the festival is as good as the band name then we are on to a winner.

Catch us on Saturday, in the marquee club, 2:45

First Sesh back at the amazing Heights!

Mountains, caves, folk music. It’s as close to the Lord of the Rings as we can afford. Come see us and the other amazing bands performing on the 21st!

Ever wanted to own a yacht, but never quite bought one because you live in the middle of the country? Well here is the next best thing! come listen to us play and look at the yachts from the yacht club!

Yacht yacht yacht - weird word. Hard to spell.

We will be playing two lovely 45 minute sets for the border Morris team - but the event is open to the public.

Hope to see you there.

An exciting new venue for us.

We will be joined by the glorious Ichabod Wolf for our Spital Arts gig in March.

Tickets £10 from spitalarts@gmail.com or call 01246 220741.

Come join us, Jig For A Kiss, Ar Faoued, Break a Leg and Phil Doleman and kick start your Christmas with a hootenanny!

Personally we will be singing absolutely 0 Christmas songs. Yay! Then again, zero is better than Bob Dylan’s Christmas album - truly written by someone that hates Christmas.

Get your tickets here (they are nearly sold out, so get in quick!)

Raising the rafters have very kindly asked us back for Kristmas with Kootch. A Kootchmas, if you will.

We don’t know why they have asked us back, but their naffle probably tells you all you need to know about their taste.

Come join us and pick up a floor spot, just listen, take part in the best raffle you will ever take part in (it’s life changing, honestly), but most important please come and help us raise some money for charity. All proceeds go to charity, all of ‘em, our palms shall not be crossed with silver, bronze, or even that crap green copper penny that keeps just turning up in your purse somehow.

See you all there!

We are back in Sheffield for another cracking night of music.

Come join us at The Princess Royal, Crookes, Sheffield. There are floor spots, too. So please bring your instruments and singning voices along.

Did someone say four gigs in two days?!

WHY, WHYYYYY, WHY DID YOU SAY THAT.

Sorry, sorry.

YAAAS, we are baaaaaack for our second day of the festival and the 4th gig of the weekend! Did we mention we are doing four gigs? Four of ‘em.

In two days?

Did we not?

Oh, well, then let us tell you now. We will be playing our fourth gig of the weekend!

Playing downstairs in The Old Bell, all for the price of your dignity.

If you came to see us the day before, we will try to at least sing the same songs in a different order - so you don’t notice.

Did someone say 3 gigs in one day?!

It must be a festival!

Come join us at Derby Folk Fest for some free, in-between-people-you-actually-wanna-see, music! Woo!

We will be in the bar at The Old Bell, filling the spot in between the bands upstairs.

Free music, what more could you want? Free beer?! Well, tough. Our generosity will only go so far. And really, are we being generous making you listen to us?

Answers on a stamp.

Did someone say two gigs in one day?!

Probably not. But here we are anyway.

Supporting the lovely Furthest from the Sea, Music, Comedy and Arts we will be playing on the Waterfall stage at 2pm on Saturday 30th. It’s Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AE

It will rain, because we are outside. Bring an anorak, poncho, or other waterproofs. See you there!

Ever wondered what to do on a Saturday?
Ever thought to yourself ‘Heanor sounds like a nice place to go for a day trip! But boy o’ boy - if only there was some music we could listen to while there, preferably involving banjo’
Then boy do we have a coincidence for you!

Come join the band at Shipley Park and have all your dreams come true!

Nothing says summer like a good ol’ garden party!

Every year, the skippers at the helm of the Good Ship Burton Folk Club host a musical garden party to say thank you to the pub for having them, signing away upstairs, like demented sirens.

We will be playing a forty minute set amongst some much, much, more talented people than ourselves.

The bar is low - we know.

The most intimate gig of the year!

Mandala Café, Sheffield, is the kookiest, hippiest most hip place we may ever play. Adam, the owner, is an absolute ray of sunshine and we would love you all to come to show your support for this amazing indie venue. Beth is very excited to be able to drink chai latte while playing (she pretends she is working class - but when chai is the drink of choice, you have to admit you are, at best, a new-affluent worker).

Admittance is FREE so there really is no excuse. Unless you’re taking the goldfish for a walk.

Ever thought to yourself ‘we love a Kootch gig, but we wish there were more excitement - colourful explosions, for example - or races in boats named after awesome creatures that breathe fire.’ then boy do we have the gig for you!

Nottingham Riverside Festival does indeed have everything - family friendly, food and drink, fireworks and yes, you guessed it, Firefly boat racing! What? Firefly’s don’t breathe fire? Oh, right-ho, dragon boat - it’s dragon boat racing. Still pretty cool.

Oh, and we will be there, too!

More details will be confirmed later.

Last one on a dragon boat is a lah-hoo-zer!

Roll up, roll up. Someone better help me roll up this mountain.

We’re back!

Do you like strings of sausages? Gratuitous shows of police brutality? Men with hands up things bottoms?

Then you will love the ‘weekend at the beach’ at The Heights, with Punch and Judy included (bet you wondered where that was going. Not sure the Punch line was worth it. The PUNCH line. Oh my goodness it’s a joke within a joke! Jokeception, you’ve outdone yourselves, Kootch. This will make millions at the box office).

Gosh, We are a glutton for punishment aren’t we?!

After the raging success at The Hagglers Corner for Heeley and Meersbrook Live - we are back for Woodseats live!

This time we will be on stage at 7.30 at The Chantrey, Woodseats.

If you didn’t make it to Meerbrook there is NO EXCUSE.

Unless you are taking the goldfish for a walk or washing your hair - again.

Chesterfield. Derbyshire’s answer to Las Vegas. All that’s missing is a folk club… Well NOT ANYMORE.

True to folk traditions there is a £2 entry and there will be a hat passed around at half time. This is to put money in for the acts, not wee. Although, that would tell us a lot about what you thought of us.

If you want to see any more, or who else is on, check that out here.

If you don’t, then don’t click the link, not like we spend AGES finding this stuff for you… No, really, we don’t.

Ahhh Matlock. Our new home away from home. Come join us at Barringtons for a lovely summer vibe garden party. We’re on first at 4pm, but loads of other good bands to entertain ‘til late.

(We chose first so we could sit back and enjoy the rest of the entertainment, what can we say?)

See you there!

Dean has renewed his passport and working visa and has been allowed to travel back to God’s Own County - Yorkshire - (Sheffield to be precise). The rest of the band are going too, to make sure he doesn’t get into any trouble. Not again.

Come support this wonderful local festival, completely free of charge! There are many bands on at many different venues over Heeley and Meersbrook and we are proud to take our place on stage at 5.30 at the Hagglers Loft

See you there!

Come join us at our second festival of the year!

If you told us that you couldn’t come see us at Doncaster because you were away for the night, your excuse has just fallen through because now we are playing in Sheffield the day after! What luck!

Snag your tickets HERE

GIG!

Joint Headline!

Come see us, and Peet Jackson, do a joint headline gig at the wonderful Ukrainian Club in Doncaster.
There will be fun, there will be laughter, there will be a raffle!

We made a poster and everything.

Get your tickets HERE.

GIG!

Kootch will be playing in full banjo fiddle twelve string mandolin and six string mode. Other artists to be confirmed. As will everything else nearer the date. But what we can promise is the legendary Raising the Rafters NAFFLE! Which is a raffle, but naff. You get it? Course you do.

Snag your tickets for the concert HERE

We are no strangers to Raising the Rafters.

On this occasion we will be doing a floor spot to support Róisín Bán who in turn are supporting Prostate Cancer UK.

You know the drill, get your tickets HERE or buy on the door.

Participation in The Naffle is optional. But we will judge you if you don’t join in.

Come see what all the fuss is about in preparation for our set at the festival in April!