Three Cane Whale will perform live at Sladers Yard in West Bay

Three Cane Whale will perform live at Sladers Yard in West Bay on Friday, September 1.

They describe the venue as 'a favourite old haunt of ours'.

The band features members of Spiro, Get The Blessing and Scottish Dance Theatre and their music encompasses both a cinematic sweep and an intimate delicacy.

Three Cane Whale's debut album was chosen by Cerys Matthews as one of her Top Five Modern Folk Albums; second album Holts And Hovers was fRoots Editor’s Choice Album of 2013, one of The Observer’s “Hidden Gems Of 2013”, and one of Acoustic Guitarist magazine’s 20 Essential Folk Albums.

The band’s third album, Palimpsest, was recorded at Real World Studios in Wiltshire, produced by Adrian Utley, and released on January 15th 2016, with artwork specially designed by Dorset’s Little Toller press, and accompanied by a UK-wide, Arts Council supported, album launch tour.

Palimpsest was chosen by The Telegraph as one of the ‘Best Folk Music Albums Of 2016″, by fRoots as one of its 5-star Playlist Albums, and by The Guardian for its Folk World Music Playlist. A vinyl edition of Palimpsest was released on Plane Groovy Records in early 2017.

On October 3rd 2016, the band released a live recording made in The Old Barn on Kelston Roundhill in Somerset, the inaugural release for new independent label Kelston Records, and described as “a fantastic release” on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review.

Music from Three Cane Whale’s first and second albums forms the soundtrack to the independent feature film “Brown Willy” (a Malabar Film Unit / o-region co-production), named after and filmed on Cornwall’s highest peak. The film was released in April 2016, and the soundtrack is available now from Three Cane Whale’s Bandcamp site.

In winter 2019, Three Cane Whale released its brand-new mini-album “303”, inspired by and recorded in a series of linked locations in South Somerset.

The gig starts at 8pm and doors open at 7pm. Tickets cost £15, call 01308 459511.