Rising roots and acoustic music star Katherine Priddy joins line-up for Gate to Southwell Festival 2025
A rising star of British roots and acoustic music is to return to the Gate To Southwell Festival this year.
Katherine Priddy, an award-winning singer-songwriter, appeared at GTSF back in 2022 where she promoted her debut hit folk album The Eternal Rocks Beneath.
Since then, she’s toured with diverse acts such as Elbow, The Chieftains and Loudon Wainwright III, and has been acclaimed by folk legend Richard Thompson — who will also headline GTSF 2025 — as “the best thing I’ve heard all year”.
Katherine’s follow up album The Pendulum Swing was one of the folk albums of 2024, and she also starred on the Nick Drake tribute collection The Endless Coloured Ways and collaborated with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
Katherine adds to a strong line-up for the 2025 festival, which also features the Fairport Convention solo guitar star Richard Thompson and former Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden, who’ll perform with his award-winning band The Remnant Kings.
The Madrid-based roots combo Track Dogs also return to Southwell after very successful visits in 2021 and 2023. Two acclaimed London bands — Alabama 3 and Skinny Lister —and Midlands-born indie folk guitar star Sam Carter comes to Southwell following international acclaim for his solo album ‘Silver Horizon’.
There will also be a strong international contingent appearing at the festival, led by influential Senegalese star Seckou Keita and The Homeland Band, the unique Barcelona world music act El Pony Pisador, who perform everything from Celtic to shanty tunes to Balkan to yodelling, and the enigmatic Texan Ruben Moreno with his electric brand of Cajun/Zydeco music.
More traditionally, GTSF will feature the outstanding musicianship of Sam Kelly and Jamie Francis, The Rosie Hood Band, Banter, and She Shanties.
More acts are to be announced for Gate To Southwell Festival 2025, which will again take place at Kirklington Lakes, near Southwell, from Thursday, July 3, to Sunday, July 6.
With over 50 acts performing across four stages, festival goers will be treated to four days of high quality folk, roots, and acoustic music plus children’s entertainment, folk dancing, and ceilidhs, a food and drink festival, poetry, comedy and community spirit in abundance.
