Upcoming Events
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Sat25Apr2026
SARAH JANE SCOUTEN (Can) | JULIET LLOYD (US)Trio Show
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45
SARAH JANE SCOUTEN | Saturday 25 April 2026
4 x Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee | International Folk Music Award Nominee | Western Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee
https://youtu.be/UYvODcnhUgM?si=JVbQs7gUx_Dpnxfz
https://youtu.be/EMzZzxzYW4A?si=tI9r9T4Bv9x21xVy
Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
Contact us if you'd like to be on the guest list and we will get back to you to confirm.
email: live@littlerabbitbarn.com or website: Contacts PageWe suggest an artist donation from £20
Complimentary food served in the interval
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Sat25Apr2026
JULIET LLOYD Trio Show
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45
Juliet Lloyd is an acclaimed singer/songwriter based in the DC region who has garnered comparisons to Brandi Carlile, Aimee Mann, and Tori Amos for her signature blend of soulful, roots-infused folk/pop. Across her 20-year career as a writer and artist, Juliet has released four studio albums, earning placements on television shows on MTV and VH1 and airplay on more than 175 radio stations across the country. Her 2024 full-length album Carnival has been hailed by reviewers for its "evocative storytelling and raw honesty" and "powerfully emotive performance from start to finish." It features nine songs that "movingly and poetically tell of broken hearts and loneliness yet finds brightness in its melodies and in the luster of Lloyd's voice." Juliet's songwriting and performance chops have earned her top honors in the 2022 Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards and Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, four “Wammie” finalist nods, and multiple prestigious national songwriter awards across the past several years. Both solo and with her band, Juliet has performed 150+ shows a year since 2020, including festivals and listening rooms across the US and UK.
BIO
There’s an unmistakable urgency you can feel when a song is written and performed from a place of complete honesty. That feeling permeates singer-songwriter Juliet Lloyd’s new album, Carnival.
“I’ve always been envious of writers who say they write songs because they have to, because they had these things they just had to get out of themselves,” Juliet says. “I had never really felt that way until this album. I’ve become someone who writes because they have to.”
The album is Juliet’s first full-length effort since 2007. Shortly after releasing her sophomore album that year, she walked away from music completely for more than 10 years, feeling burned out and unhappy with her career progression like so many other independent artists. After going through a divorce in 2019 and in the midst of a global pandemic, she found herself pulled back toward the siren call of songwriting and again making the leap to pursue it full time. Carnival is in many ways the culmination of those decisions, and the reintroduction of an artist who now has the wisdom of experience.
“These songs have helped me make sense of emotions and experiences that have happened both recently and those that I’ve buried for 20+ years, to confront truths about myself and about others that I’ve been afraid or unwilling to say out loud,” Juliet says. “I’ve never been a confrontational person. But this is definitely a confrontational album. And I love it.”
Recorded in an unhurried process over nearly 15 months and produced by Todd Wright (Lucy Woodward, Butch Walker, Toby Lightman), Carnival’s nine songs are a study in contrasts. Light and dark, devastating and self-deprecating, apologetic and angry, conversational and conceptual. They are genre-fluid, weaving elements of pop, folk, soul, and rock to create a vibrant and often unexpected platform for Juliet’s unflinching storytelling.
“When you give all your grace away to those who don't deserve it, there's no saving grace for yourself,” Lloyd sings on the album’s leadoff single, “Pretty.” It’s a line that takes aim in equal parts at both narrator and subject, a common device throughout Carnival’s lyrics.
The central theme of Carnival and that of its title track is not being too precious about any one experience or decision. Take them for what they are, live in the moment, and move on when they’re done. It acknowledges also that memory can be subjective, and ambiguous—was an experience ultimately a good thing or a bad thing? And whose memory can you rely on to determine the answer to that question?
These questions are on full display in one of the album’s standout tracks, “Sorry Now,” a raw and immediate interrogation of divorce. “Why does it feel like the choices of who gets the knife set, the mattress, the old picture frames are harder than choosing to leave in the first place?” Juliet sings over a sparse keyboard accompaniment before the track kicks in with a lush, R&B-inflected production.
“I had a really visceral memory of sorting through our shared stuff when I moved out, boring things like kitchen utensils and towels, and what felt so mechanical at the time now feels colored with sadness,” Juliet says. “I wanted to pose questions in the lyrics, to myself and to whoever needs to hear them, because I still don’t have everything figured out, and that’s okay.”
Throughout much of Carnival, Juliet puts these themes in the context of specific personal relationships—sometimes painful to recall. The aforementioned “Pretty” deals with the lingering shame and guilt of an abusive relationship from 25 years ago, and serves as a cautionary anthem for women who similarly find themselves wondering how they could have let themselves be in that situation. Interestingly, a later track, “Call Your Wife,” is a continuation of that story.
“Shortly after I released ‘Pretty’ this spring, I got a text message in the middle of the night from a number I didn’t recognize,” Juliet says. “The sender apparently didn’t think I was being fair to the guy in my song.” Her response is a defiant, slightly unhinged carnival pastiche—another standout song on the album, co-written with Wright—that begins as an innocent-sounding waltz with sweetly threatening lyrics (“you say I’m being unfair, there’s cracks in your ego too deep to repair”) and builds to a satisfying, vengeful final chorus.
Biting lyrics are also on display on the throwback, 70s soul-inspired “Search Your Soul,” which Juliet wrote about the same subject as her previous song “High Road,” a highlight from her 2022 EP by the same name. “In your funhouse mirror you see what you see / your history is doomed to always repeat / you send another woman into therapy / Did that make you happy?” Juliet taunts the real-life narcissist in question over a breezy, disco-string laden track.
Stylistically, Carnival draws on a range of influences from Laurel Canyon-era singer/songwriters, to Lilith Fair rockers, to confessional country/folk balladeers, to indie pop. Across her 20+ year career, she’s been admittedly stylistically non-monogamous. Her first full-length album, All Dressed Up, was released in 2005 and was heavily jazz-influenced, a label that she rejected at the time. “I am a piano player and a woman, so I was immediately compared to Norah Jones—and I bristled at that,” Juliet says. “Listening back now, I can totally see that it was true, and it of course wasn’t a bad thing.” Her follow-up release, Leave the Light On, came out two years later and featured a slick piano-pop production that led to five of its songs being placed on reality TV shows on MTV and VH1. Most recently, coming back after her 10-year break from writing and recording, Juliet released High Road, a collection of five Americana/soul-tinged songs produced by Jim Ebert (Meredith Brooks, Shai) that earned her widespread recognition and songwriting awards both in her home region of DC as well as nationally.
“Though I still primarily consider myself a piano player, I write and play more guitar now,” Juliet says. “That definitely influences the kinds of songs I write, because I’m so limited by the chords I can play right now. It’s forced me to be simple and to put more of an emphasis on lyrics than I may have in past projects.”
One of those songs, Carnival’s anthemic opener, “Wallflower,” draws directly on Juliet’s relatable experiences as an introvert in the music industry. In it, she reassures fellow introverts that it’s okay to “disappear in the spaces between, and hide all your brilliant color in cracks, they have to know where to look to be seen.” But like nearly every song on the album, it’s tinged with a bit of cynicism: “the dance ain’t as cool as it seems.” Another guitar-driven track, the tongue-in-cheek, upbeat album closer “Motorcycle & Tattoo Sleeve” is the closest Juliet says she’s come to writing a “three chords and the truth”-style song in her career. In it, she pokes fun at the unexpected hobbies we all take on when we’re in new relationships, while reassuring us “maybe we’re all just doing the best that we can do.”
Carnival doesn’t just deal with the complexities of ending relationships—it also deals with all the feelings that come with moving on. “When Love Comes Round Again” is a deceptively simple ballad with a traditional song structure borrowed from jazz and musical theatre, but the lyrics elegantly reveal the struggle that comes with giving yourself permission to celebrate finding love again. And “The Spring,” another co-write with Wright, paints a striking, darkly dreamy picture of what it feels like to not want to move on, even as everything else around you is.
Taken together, Carnival’s nine songs feature evocative storytelling that reveals a simple truth: when the carnival inevitably leaves town, you’re left with an empty parking lot. And how you remember it is a choice. As Juliet sings in the title track, “If only there was a way you could bottle up that feeling / and you’d drink it in / when the days are short and you long.”
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS & AWARDS
- Shared the stage with Maggie Rose, Javier Colón, David Nail, Josh Radnor, Grammy-winner Jon Carroll, and others
- Grand Prize winner in the 2022 Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards
- 2025 NAMM Expo showcasing artist
- 2024 Semifinalist - Songwriter Serenade (TX)
- 2024 Red Lodge Songwriter Festival Rising Star (MT)
- 2024 Annapolis Songwriters Festival (MD)
- 2023 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Grassy Hill Emerging Artist Showcase (CT)
- Top 5 in 2023 Rocky Mountain Songwriter Showcase (Red Lodge, MT)
- Top 10 finalist in 2023 Al Johnson Performing Songwriter Contest, Wildflower Arts & Music Festival (Richardson, TX)
- 4-time Wammie Awards Finalist in 2023 (Best Country/Americana Artist, Album, and Song; Best Music Video)
- Gold Prize (Music Video), Finalist (Adult Contemporary, Music Video), and Honorable Mention (Country/Bluegrass) in the 2022 & 2023 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest
https://youtu.be/ePYFu_z55RU?si=W4A-00xPE6gqJnYG
https://youtu.be/ly-ldozdzJU?si=g4gLFMrdje28eEyP
Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
Contact us if you'd like to be on the guest list and we will get back to you to confirm.
email: live@littlerabbitbarn.com or website: Contacts PageWe suggest an artist donation from £20
Complimentary food served in the interval
PLEASE CONTACT US FIRST BEFORE USING THE PAYPAL LINK BELOW...UNLESS YOU HAVE RECEIVED AN EMAIL CONFIRMING YOUR GUEST PLACE(s)
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Sat30May2026
PAUL CASEY & DANIEL MILLAR
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45
PAUL CASEY & DAN MILLER | SATURDAY 30 MAY 2026
Paul Casey is perhaps Ireland’s best kept secret. And it’s a secret thirty years in the making.
Paul Casey was born at a moment in Northern Irish life that shaped him unmistakably. His father’s record collection were a huge influence. Paul’s blues sensibility led to an encounter with the legendary Chris Rea. The shy teenager blagged his way backstage to ask for advice from his guitar hero. Rea advised the young novice, who took everything on board. Three years later Casey gave Rea a demo tape. He was impressed, and invited Paul to London. Thus began years of recording and touring together, and a friendship that endures to this day.
Another strand to Paul’s musical DNA is an uncompromising commitment to no-nonsense studio equipment, along with an enduring pursuit of the new recording tech that matters. And then, there’s the visuals; he’s a cinema geek. Rented VHS tapes have fashioned his life, and his music. Paul is a videographer, a guitarist, a songwriter, producer, and singer. Check out his take on In The Day's Before Rock 'N' Roll below.
Irish singer-songwriter Paul Casey with his song 'St.Jeannet' live in the Emerald Cottage.
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Sat30May2026
IMOGEN CLARK
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45
“Imogen returns to her roots with Choking on Fuel—a new album built around her acoustic guitar… the record showcases the emotional intensity, vulnerability, and musical depth that define her gripping live shows, delivering a stripped-down, powerful sound that’s unmistakably her own.
With raw, personal storytelling, a powerhouse voice, and a fearless, all-in stage presence, Imogen has earned the admiration of both her peers and musical heroes.” – Glide Magazine
ARIA and Golden Guitar nominee Imogen Clark calls Nashville home, but earned her stripes as a high-schooler playing bars in her native Western Sydney. Touring with Shania Twain, Steve Poltz and The Tallest Man on Earth, collaborating with Colin Hay and Jim Lauderdale and many more, Imogen has earned the respect of her heroes and peers through her deeply personal storytelling, roof-raising voice and leave it all out on the field live energy. Her witty, melodic songwriting crosses generations and genres, with influences from Joni Mitchell to Jason Isbell, Led Zeppelin to Taylor Swift.
After a breakneck year in 2024 of non-stop touring, Imogen’s new album Choking on Fuel (which rose to #5 on the Australian ARIA Country Albums chart and scored nominations at the ARIA Awards and Golden Guitar Awards) sees her returning to her roots. Armed with an acoustic guitar, Imogen is rolling out a record that captures the intensity, vulnerability, musical dexterity and vocal power that characterizes her compelling live performances.
“I spent last year on the road around the world, playing headline shows but also touring with Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Poltz, BOWEN * YOUNG and Andrew Farriss”, Imogen explains. “So many people have messaged me or commented on my social media to say that they would love to have an album that captured the spirit of what I do live, and that’s what this is”.
The album puts Imogen’s rich, devastating vocals front and center, foregrounding her deft, cutting lyrics and affecting melodies. A mix of co-writes and purely self-penned songs, the record runs the emotional gamut from the wry, incendiary All Hard Feelings (with 70s style backing vocals from co-writers Sinead Burgess and Blake O’Connor, who also tears up a blistering slide guitar solo), a high-octane harmonica solo on The Art of Getting Through from the legendary Mickey Raphael, the sexy bluegrass raveup of Sebastian (where Imogen is backed by Aussie grassers Midnight Chicken) to the raw, powerful anthem The Last of Me (with My Morning Jacket’s Bo Koster on propulsive piano), the road not taken nightmare of Squinters (a co-write with Steve Poltz powered by Bryan Sutton’s nuanced acoustic guitar) to the delicate, timeless wisdom of If Your Heart Never Breaks (featuring gorgeous harmonies from co-writer Jim Lauderdale and a dexterous and beautiful guitar from the iconic Tommy Emmanuel).
An unexpected closing note comes with a radical reinterpretation of the classic Sheryl Crow / Jeff Trott anthem ‘If It Makes You Happy’, reimagined as a vulnerable duet with Imogen’s tourmate and Americana UK Live Act of the Year Kezia Gill. Aussie fans will expect to see it on the setlist when Imogen and Kezia head down under for a co-headline tour in October.
“I’ve gotten to know and write with Jeff Trott since I’ve been living in Nashville,” Imogen explains. “After hearing him explain how he began writing this song late one night on the piano, it sparked the idea of approaching the song from that point of view. Having Kez sing it with me added so much extra magic to this version of one of my all-time favorite songs”.
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The Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
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Sat15Aug2026
DANNI NICHOLLS BAND | VIC ALLEN
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 22:30
DANNI NICHOLLS | SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026 | FULL BAND. DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE THAT MULTI AWARD NOMINATION LRB FAV ARTIST RETURNS FOR A RECORD NINTH VISIT. THERE'LL BE A BRAND NEW ALBUM 'MAKING MOVES' PRODUCED BY SARAH PEACOCK. “An artist with the elegance and imagination to restore your faith in the visceral power of an original song” Paul Sexton, BBC Radio 2 and freelance print/broadcast journalist. “I absolutely love the elegance and beauty of her music” - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 “Smoky soul, folk-pop and heart-wrenching alt-country, all in a rich voice” - Q Magazine
VIC ALLEN | SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026. Delighted to welcome to LRB. Vic Allen skilfully blends the energy of pop with the storytelling nature of country music. Through meticulously crafted lyrics, she has a knack for transporting listeners, allowing them to hear their own stories in her songs
Her self-penned single “Pictures of Us”, featured on her album, amassed over 1 million views on TikTok, contributing to a following of over 35,000 on the platform.Inspired by a profound desire to seize life fully, Vic Allen's debut album, "Some Place I'd Rather Be," stands as a direct reflection of her outlook on the world around her. A restless spirit at her core, Allen skilfully blends the energy of pop with the storytelling nature of country music. Through meticulously crafted lyrics, she has a knack for transporting listeners, allowing them to hear their own stories in her songs.
Despite being fully independent, Allen has never failed to seek out opportunities in the industry. This autumn she hit the road with First Time Flyers, followed shortly by her own headline tour, which included two sold-out London dates. Her self-penned single “Pictures of Us”, featured on her album, amassed over 1 million views on TikTok, contributing to a following of over 35,000 on the platform.
A regular visitor to Nashville, Allen has featured on Radio Disney Country and was handpicked to join the US-based collective Song Suffragettes on their UK tour, continuing to work closely with the organisation in 2025. Now kicking off a brand-new chapter with the anthemic country-pop track Ended in a Song, further new music is set for release in early 2026Please contact us via website or email for more details.
Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
Contact us if you'd like to be on the guest list and we will get back to you to confirm.
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Complimentary food served in the interval
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Sat12Sep2026
KIRSTEN ADAMSON & THE TANAGERS | TBC
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 22:30
Award-winning singer/songwriter Kirsten Adamson (daughter of rock legend Stuart Adamson (Big Country, Skids)) summons the same heart-stopping purity as Sandy Denny, by way of Emmylou Harris and Kate Bush, with an engaging mix of heartland Americana folk rock.
Having recently finished recording Dreamviewer (follow-up to 2023’s critically acclaimed Landing Place), with award-winning producer/multi-instrumentalist Joe Harvey-Whyte, and impressed audiences and critics with sell-out tours, festivals and shows with Horse and Nazareth, 2025 Adamson creates some big waves.
“Adamson knows how to hold a crowd in the palm of her hand, her vocals are clear and powerful, her songs are strong, she is an all round entertainer.” (The Writers Room)
“An album to savour.” Americana UK
“Adamson's exquisite album of Americana is a must-listen” (At The Barrier)
'Exceptional' (Americana-UK.com)
'A talent to watch' (NoDepression)
“I could listen to Adamson’s voice all day every day, it’s angelic” – Maverick Magazine
“Recalling the late Nanci Griffith… with an added edge” - R2 Magazine
Nominated UK Song Of The Year Americana UK Awards 2024
Winner Fife Champions Music Award 2023
Official Celtic Connections Showcase Scotland Artist 2023
Official AMA UK Festival Showcase Artist 2023
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Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
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Complimentary food served in the interval
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Sat03Oct2026
ANNIE KEATING BAND | JACKIE BRISTOW w MARK PUNCH
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45
ANNIE KEATING BAND | SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2026. Talent spotted by BBC Radio‘s Bob Harris, Annie Keating is “building the reputation her talent deserves” according to the Daily Telegraph, with a brilliant UK live band and eleven critically acclaimed studio albums, she draws comparisons to Lucinda Williams, Dylan and John Prine. Keating writes and sings like a woman who knows deep down that heartache is the price of hope, and she can make us believe — in that way that only the best artists can — that all of it is worth the cost.
JACKIE BRISTOW w MARK PUNCH | SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2026. Jackie's exquisite songcraft and compelling live performances have seen her share the bill and a personal connection with many of the world’s musical elite, including Bonnie Raitt, Boz Skaggs, Chris Isaak, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Miller Band, Foreigner, Art Garfunkel, Phoebe Snow and John Waite. Big welcome for our End of Year Show
Please contact us via website or email for more details.
Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
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email: live@littlerabbitbarn.com or website: Contacts PageWe suggest an artist donation from £20
Complimentary food served in the interval
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Sat03Oct2026
JACKIE BRISTOW w MARK PUNCH
Doors 18:45 | Live 19:15 | Finish 10:45JACKIE BRISTOW w MARK PUNCH | SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2026. Jackie's exquisite songcraft and compelling live performances have seen her share the bill and a personal connection with many of the world’s musical elite, including Bonnie Raitt, Boz Skaggs, Chris Isaak, Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Miller Band, Foreigner, Art Garfunkel, Phoebe Snow and John Waite. Big welcome for our End of Year Show
Please contact us via website or email for more details.
Little Rabbit Barn music evenings are private invitation-only gigs.
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email: live@littlerabbitbarn.com or website: Contacts PageWe suggest an artist donation from £20
Complimentary food served in the interval
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