The Water Rats, Kings Cross
Tuesday 25th November
Doors 7:30pm, Live Music 8:00pm
Tickets £15 Adv (£12 Concessions) £18 on the night
“I strongly recommend you take every opportunity to catch them live” – KLOF (Folk Radio)
“Finn is regarded as a leading exponent of the recorder, and deservedly so. Hearing it played as well as it is here, makes me wonder why it’s not heard more in folk music.” – Folking
Expect “initial touches of baroque fusing with modern day folk” (FATEA) as The Finn Collinson Band returns to the stage in 2025, with exciting new material and favourites from critically-acclaimed studio albums The Threshold (2022) and Call To Mind (2019).
Although fundamentally folk in approach, Finn draws on elements of early music to sculpt his distinctive sound. Traditional dance tunes meet historical melodies, shaken up in striking new arrangements and brought up to date with Finn’s compositions and trademark recorder style. As RNR observes, Finn “has both the chops and the vision to take his music in many directions”.
Joined by two of English folk’s most in-demand musicians, Evan Carson (bodhran, percussion) and Archie Churchill-Moss (guitar, accordion), Finn and his band produce a powerful and pioneering sound. Together they create a captivating and wonderfully varied live show, with a respectful eye on the past but a firm grounding in the present.
Considered one of the genre’s foremost innovators on the recorder, Finn is honoured to be part of a growing generation of creative young players on the English folk scene.
Formerly shortlisted for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award, Finn also performs with busy ceilidh band Stroma and is in high demand as a session musician, composer and educator.