Dave Malkin & Louis Campbell, Moya Sweeney & Archie Churchill-Moss
Thu 11 Dec
|St Mary's Church Guildford
We celebrate the end of the third season of Folk Inspiration events with an acoustic, candle-lit concert for two stunning duos.
Time & Location
11 Dec 2025, 19:30 – 22:00 GMT
St Mary's Church Guildford, Quarry St, Guildford GU1 3UA, UK
About the event
An acoustic, candle-lit concert for two stunning duos - Dave Malkin & Louis Campbell, both supremely talented guitarists, and Moya Sweeney & Archie Churchill-Moss, outstanding players of the diatonic accordion. This will be a double headline performance from four of the UK and Ireland's finest interpreters of instrumental folk music.
DAVE MALKIN & LOUIS CAMPBELL
Lauded for projects expertly blending tradition and modernity, Dave Malkin (Dipper Malkin) and Louis Campbell (Owen Spafford & Louis Campbell, the Sam Sweeney Band) come together to explore and reframe their instrument, the guitar, and its role in English traditional music.
Their debut EP, Bird On A Briar, journeys through melodies from centuries-old manuscripts and the aural tradition, reclaiming arrangements from the English Pastoral School and celebrating the musical idiosyncrasies of England, highlighting the exquisite result of a thousand years of migration and cultural collision, all through a thoroughly contemporary lens. The result is refreshingly…