Show of Hands

New Theatre Royal. Steve Knightley & Phil Beer, Miranda Sykes double pass/vocalist

Double winners at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for Best Duo and Best Original Song, England’s finest and most popular roots duo – who have headlined at festivals from WOMAD to Glastonbury – perform their inimitable music which crosses from folk roots into blues, rock, country, trad and world. Played out on an array of instruments from slide guitar to South American cuatro this is a whole world in one gig.

‘this is a band performing at its passionate peak’
The Independent

‘intelligent, compelling and imaginative…full of expert musicianship’
The Daily Telegraph