Live Music in Essex

GEMMA HAYES | Saturday 22 April | Thrilled to announce Gemma Hayes at LRB.

QUOTES "The hospitality at LRB for both Artists and audiences is unparalleled" " What a wonderful evening of music Kate Ellis and Andy and Mim Grey and her band gave us. Such complementary performances - Kate Ellis with her gentle music and Mim Grey with her effortless singing but both performances coming from within them" PAUL ROBERTS "Well there certainly is no let up in the quality of music at LRB, what a night of music" "We greatly enjoyed our first visit to LRB, it was a lovely atmosphere, the performances-such clear sound-were brilliant, with food as well! We shall be back." THANK YOU PAUL R and CHRIS R "We were so lucky to be at this gig - Live at Little Rabbit Barn is an oasis of music and joy, thank you" M.B. KELLY "Thanks for another great evening. Hannah and Gus were superb" STEVE WILDING

JENNY COLQUITT full band | Saturday 04 March 2023 |

RACHEL CROFT | Saturday 04 March 2023 | An ominous fusion of indie rock attitude and bluesy Americana energy. Blending the cinematic and soulful, Rachel’s multi-octave range flows effortlessly from fierce power to deep and deadly soft. A voice described as “truly exceptional” by BBC Introducing

JENNY COLQUITT full band | Saturday 04 March 2023 | Delighted to welcome back Jenny Colquitt with a full band for our 2023 curtain raiser. Totally bowled over by a superb solo accoustic set in August, we had no hessitation to snap up the last date on Jenny's Spring 2023 UK Tour and invite back to LRB. Jenny continues to record and release new music with an EP scheduled for release to coincide with her Lost Animals UK Tour

GEMMA HAYES | Saturday 22 April | A much loved and respected Irish singer songwriter. Her 2002 debut album, ‘Night On My Side’, won Best Female Artist at the Hot Press Awards and a Mercury Prize nomination. Her version of Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game, recorded for the US TV series Pretty Little Liars, has clock up over 20 million streams on Spotify alone.

SORREL NATION | Saturday 22 April 2023 | Big welcome | Kent born songstress Sorrel Nation brings her powerful vocals and haunting melodies with a soulful mix of folk, pop, country and rock songs. Joined by Sam Anderson on guitar

DANNI NICHOLLS | Saturday 22 April 2023 | Delighted to announce Danni completes this amazing line up as our special guest.

CARTER SAMPSON Saturday 24 June 2023 | OKLAHOMA MEETS NASHVILLE | COUNTRY/AMERICANA DOUBLE BILL |*The queen of Oklahoma* singer/songwriter with a big voice and a musical family legacy that includes talents like Roy Orbison + AMELIA WHITE

AMELIA WHITE Saturday 24 June 2023 | OKLAHOMA MEETS NASHVILLE | COUNTRY/AMERICANA DOUBLE BILL | East Nashville based Amelia garning praise from American UK, Rolling Stone, BBC Ulster and more

HANNAH ALDRIDGE with GUSTAV SJODIN | Saturday 24 June 2023. Hannah adding, southern rock from Muscle Shoals and Jetbone’s Gustav Sjödin, her Sweddish partner, providing a second guitar and harmonies, makes this a mega line up not to be missed. This will be a very special mid summer music extravaganza.

ANNE McCUE | Saturday 29 July 2023 | Extraordinary all round talent and one of the very finest female artists on tour...'my new favourite artist'...Lucinda Williams.

BARBARA NESBITT | Saturday 29 July 2023 | Delighted to welcome back Barbara Nesbitt (solo) | Her voice and songwriting have placed her in the top 5 Best Female Singer and in the top 3 Best Songwriter categories in the Austin Music Awards

ANNIE KEATING | Saturday 02 September 2023 | Full band show | Superb Americana songwriter comparisons to Lucinda Williams 'her talent and ability are clearly profound' No Depression.

KATIE SPENCER | Saturday 07 October 2023 | Thrilled to welcome to our End of Season Showdown | World quality progressive folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from the East Yorkshire flatlands

NO LONGER AVAILABLE | PHYSICAL 6 TRACK EP/CDs | ELLES BAILEY LIVE EP recorded at Little Rabbit Barn 28 October 2017 mixed by Jay Stapley | executive producer and cover Elles Bailey. ONLY 4 TRACK DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE | To download go to GIGS page OR click ARTISTS tab > Elles Bailey above Increasing in value and becoming rare as ELLES adds a double with ARTIST + ALBUM of The Year in the BRITISH BLUES AWARDS 2020 to UK AMERICANA AWARD. UK BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2021

TIMELINE 2010 - 2022 | 2020 was the 10th ANNIVERSARY YEAR FOR LITTLE RABBIT BARN | LRB | First barn show 02 July 2010 featured EVE SELIS and THE FLOE | 100 plus shows in the barn | more than 250 artist sets

THE FLOE | WHERE ARE THEY NOW | 10 YEARS ON from their SIMPLE PLEASURES LIVE Album and Tour. We catch up with THE FLOE, Sarah & Liz, for a chat and reminisce. Also new live recording and video mix from the LRB archive from 27 October 2012 unearthed and dusted down

CHERRY LEE MEWIS | NEW LIVE ALBUM | 5 tracks from LRB show on 21 July 2018 | Recorded over three separate performances from 2018 & 2019, this is an album you simply must add to your Cherry collection, the one album that truly captures that high energy CLM vibe, only experienced live. Recorded alongside Cherry's faithful band of Max Milligan, Robbie Stewart-Mathews, Nick Slater, Brian Greene and with special guest Lee Vernon on blues harp, this is a hotpot of bluesy soulfulness at it's best.

NEW LRB Merchandise | To celebrate our 10 anniversary year as LRB, top fashion designer Tiffany, has created a brand new design to recognise some of the 250 artists that have played LRB. These high quality Gildan cotton Ts come in Mens M L XL and Ladies S M L sizes and are printed front and rear

NEW LRB Merchandise | Front view of T shirt

NEW LRB Merchandise | Rear view of T shirt

SNIFF 'N' THE TEARS played an acoustic set at LRB last April 06 after a 27 year break from live shows Their acoustic project has a new acoustic album for us all to enjoy. LRB proud to have been a stepping stone on their journey and wish them all success with the new album and acoustic shows. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW Sniff'n'the Tears acoustic album 'Jump' is available now. Videos of the LRB performance can be found on both LRB and SnTT websites and YouTube channel. Read the story, hear a couple of sample tracks, and buy the album here: https://www.sniffnthetears.com/jump

Here is the awesome line up. All girl super group for one evening only. Elles Bailey | Jackie Bristow and Tamara Stewart from our end of year showdown 2018. One of our favourite pictures from the LRB archive. The coming together of three amazingly talented artistes from US, NZ and UK was truly an alignment of good fortune and fate that will be hard to recreate. Can't believe this was October 2018. Where do the years go.

Everyone keep well, stay safe, have grace (thank you Elles so well put) and please look out for those less fortunate. Best wishes from us all at Little Rabbit Barn

NOW AVAILABLE | EVE SELIS Double CD | UPDATE Eve and her family have moved from San Diego to Nashville. We all wish EVE and her family well. She is currently in the studio as at 18 January 2023 working on her new album DARK SKY BLUE. You can follow EVE by becoming a Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/eveselis

Out&About with interviews filmed at Little Rabbit Barn! For more information and details please contact – Email: info@theukamericanabar.com

Catch LRB on 'The UK Americana Bar TV Show'. HANNAH ALDRIDGE. TV Show ft interviews w Sean Taylor | Elles Bailey | Angel Snow. Wonderful ANNE McCUE interview and unplugged song from her LRB show. Early WARD THOMAS interview at LRB PLUS MANY MORE FINE SESSIONS AND INTERVIEWS WITH SAM MILLAR and THE UK AMERICANA BAR Team

Congratulations to all of the evening’s winners, honorees and nominees!

Congratulation to Elles Bailey a double winner | UK Artist of the Year AND UK Live Act of the Year

Congratulations HANNAH WHITE | UK SONG OF THE YEAR | CAR CRASH