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Music Booking, Curation & Promotion Bristol UK. All enquiries [email protected] We run a series of seated shows at The Wardrobe Theatre and St.

Ear Trumpet Music is an independent music booking, curation and promotion company based in Bristol UK. We curate several venues, large & small events as well as run a small agency representing a variety of diverse artists. Our shows form a theme of Underground and Leftfield music unrestrained by Genre or Boarder. Georges Concert Hall & The Jam Jar. Standing shows take place at a variety of venues

from Trinity to The Jam Jar. Alongside these we curate the majority of the programme at The Old Market Assembly & The Canteen. Since its inception we have curated the music programme for Valley Fest a sustainable music festival on a community owned organic farm in the heart of South Bristol's Mendip Hills. A selection of Artists we have been lucky to work with in the past...

Africa Express (John Paul Jones, Reeps One, Afel Bocoum) / Dele Sosimi (Fela Kuti Egypt 80/Femi Kuti Positive Force) / Yola / Get The Blessing / Lau / Shooglenifty / This is the Kit / José Gonzalez / Rozi Plain / Kuda Matimba (Bhundu Boys) / Diabel Cissokho / Manu Delago / Claudia Aroura / Pete Josef / Three Cane Whale / Rachel Newton / Basement Jaxx / Tom Odell / Leftfield / The Magic Numbers / Nubiyan Twist / Tank & The Bangas / Sam Lee / Band of Burns / My Baby / ONIPA / The Comet is Coming /

29/08/2026

📣 NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

🎶 Finding Ways
🏛️ Strange Brew
📆 13.10.26

Sebastian Rochford is a singular force in British music, an extraordinary drummer, composer, and producer. His work with the iconic group Polar Bear helped redefine the boundaries of jazz and earned multiple Mercury Prize nominations. With a career spanning collaborations with Patti Smith, Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Adele and Grace Jones, and his 2023 ECM duo album A Short Diary with Kit Downes, an album written for his father described as a “ quiet masterpiece” , Rochford has carved out a unique space in contemporary music.

Finding Ways, his new major project, marks a bold new chapter for Seb Rochford. The first album focuses on the guitar, featuring among others, the dynamic lineup of Tara Cunningham, David Preston, Adrian Utley (Portishead), and Simon Tong(The Verve, Gorillaz), exploring various combinations and layering up to three guitars at once. The result is a striking blend of jagged experimental grooves and raw emotional depth, with an unaffected, pedal-less sound that evokes a timeless, exploratory edge. Rochford’s music, as ever, defies categorisation—a sound that feels alive, fractured, and profoundly human, and all mixed by the singular talent and master of sound, Tchad Blake.

The title Finding Ways refers to a frame of mind he chose to adopt after multiple significant life events happening in a small amount of time. “It’s about finding ways to keep ourselves moving forward and buoyant, transforming life’s challenges into something meaningful, also in a practical, everyday type of way.

In Finding Ways, it’s direct, energetic music that refuses to be boxed in, a reflection of Seb Rochford’s trailblazing spirit. For fans of his previous work and newcomers alike, this album is a testament to his ongoing quest to find emotional truth in sound.

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26/08/2026

Join us for .moss on Wednesday 7th October at !

Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte, and Christian Lee Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records. Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.

“Oh and the way that it feels To know you
Oh and the way it reveals
I don’t know you”

So begins “The Way That It Feels,” the concluding track of Elanor Moss’ debut full-length album The Knife, The Needle, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records. In two couplets, sung over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something unknowable just beyond.

‘With shades of Joanna Newsom’s dynamic originality, Elanor Moss has a stark subtlety that bowls you over in its intensity.’- CLASH

‘The biggest secret weapon in British folk right now” - Far Out Magazine

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19/08/2026

📣 NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

🎶 Shovel Dance Collective - Everything in Readiness Tour
🏛️ The Mount Without
📆 18.02.27

The nine members of Shovel Dance Collective are united by a passion for the beauty, force and political charge of traditional music. Together their practice has emerged as a patchwork of fragments, traditional material sewn together and embroidered with their own ever-deepening group improvisations, explorations of field recordings, and concrète style tape manipulation.
Their arrangements emphasise the inviting, hopeful and human qualities of folk, and they channel the joy and sadness held in these collaboratively-shaped words and melodies. Balancing dense orchestration with intense fragility, the patchwork is threaded with a deep sense of the way in which traditional music carries the voices of all those who have gone before, the oppressed and those who, through their labour, create the wealth of the world.

Tickets on sale Friday 21st August!

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18/08/2026

SEEKER FESTIVAL SOCIAL & FUNDRAISER
Friday 11th September
Sandy Hill Arts

The Seeker team are holding a lovely little social event at Sandy Hill Arts in Corfe Castle, Dorset. If you want to come and gather with us we have a fun evening lined up with Blind Yeo, Pete Josef and some fun DJ’s - 6-10.30pm, lots of great camp sites nearby, the water is still warm for swimming!

https://hdfst.uk/e160330 https://sandyhillarts.co.uk/events/seeker-social-blind-yeo-pete-josef-djs/ (link in bio)

07/08/2026

Join us for .rosa at on 19th September!

Fast gaining a reputation as one of UK’s most dynamic and virtuosic bands, Opa Rosa are an energetic acoustic ensemble sharing music from the Balkan, Greek, Klezmer & Roma traditions. With several combined decades of study and experience, all five musicians are well-versed in the musical traditions’ syntax and significance, capturing all the joy and sorrow that these traditions are so renowned for expressing.

Deeply rooted in Balkan traditions, Opa Rosa’s music aims to explore and reinvent the motifs of Eastern Europe by subtly drawing from other musical influences such as Post-Rock, Classical and Jazz. With their lineup of violin, clarinet, accordion, double bass and percussion, their unique and refined sound consists of an explosive and grooving rhythm section combined with intricate melodies soaring over rich and nuanced harmonic structures.

Fresh off the release of their anticipated New Album ‘Havasi Klub’, they continue to captivate domestic and international audiences with their engaging and high-energy performances. They have sold-out performances headlining Bristol Beacon, The Cornish Bank (Falmouth), Jamboree (London) and various festivals including Priddy Folk Festival, Purbeck Folk, Fire in the Mountain, Smuggler’s Festival, Boomtown and Secret Garden Party.

Enjoy a collection of vibrant and soulful melodies played with fiery precision, and let Opa Rosa take you on a foot-stomping journey through the Balkans and beyond!

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05/08/2026

We’re looking forward to welcoming Elanor Moss to The Jam Jar Bristol, Bristol on 7th October. ✨

Ahead of the show, she’s performing a live in-session on BBC Radio 6 Music tonight at 9pm, and we can’t wait to tune in.

Link in bio to listen live tonight. 🎧

Have a listen for yourself, then join us in Bristol this October. 🎶

30/07/2026

We are thrilled to be bringing one of the most irrepressible live performers to a run of shows across Southern England and Wales!

For a decade and a half, Grace Petrie has been one of the UK’s most urgent and passionate songwriters. Characterised by razor-sharp lyricism and the unmistakable passion of her stage presence, her live shows have become synonymous for fans with a unique atmosphere of hope and solidarity, while the LGBTQ anthem Black Tie has racked up 1.5 million streams and provided the soundtrack of expression for young q***r folks all over the world.

In 2026 she is exploring the stripped back nature of folk songwriting once again, performing a show in two halves that encompasses both an intimate solo set and a career-retrospective full band performance featuring songs from across her sixteen-year catalogue.

London - - 25.09.26
Cardiff - - 21.10.26
Bristol - - 22.10.26

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London: https://buytickets.at/eartrumpetmusicltd/2147167
Cardiff: https://buytickets.at/eartrumpetmusicltd/2147199
Bristol: https://eartrumpetmusic.co.uk/

(Links in bio)

24/07/2026

📣 NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

🎶 Talisk
🏛️ The Trinity Centre
📆 03.12.26

One of the most talked-about bands in contemporary folk, Talisk have spent the last ten years ripping up the rulebook — and audiences across the world have come along for the ride. With over 15 million streams, 10,000 albums sold, and sold-out shows on five continents — from Glasgow to Tokyo, Paris to New York — alongside headline festival appearances the world over, the trio have built a devoted global following.Armed with concertina, fiddle and guitar — and a sound far bigger than the sum of its parts — Mohsen Amini, Benedict Morris and Charlie Galloway have picked up a string of major awards, including from BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotlandand the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.Celebrating a decade on the road in 2025, Talisk continue to push boundaries — musically, technically, and in how three people can completely command any stage. Their BBC One Hogmanay Show performances reached over a million viewers, whilst they’ve captivated tens of thousands live - from Glasgow’s OVO Hy-dro arena, to the vastest of festival sites across Europe, North America, and Australasia, and including Glas-tonbury in 2025.Expect big energy, heavy tunes, and an all out celebration of an almighty 10 years - from one of contempo-rary Scottish folk’s most celebrated live acts.

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23/07/2026

📣 NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

🎶 Sheelanagig & Buffo’s Wake
🏛️ The Trinity Centre
📆 20.11.26

Double Head Clash of the biggest stomping European folk bands from Bristol & Brighton at Trinity Bristol

Sheelanagig have been whipping up a storm of foot-stomping, roof-raising, high-energy live folk for nigh on twenty years. With an arsenal of strings, soaring flute, pounding drums and a sprinkle of fairy dust they spin melodies that have set feet flying all across the globe. Their shows are a heady mix of raucous dance medleys and thoughtfully crafted original pieces feverishly brimming with fire, flair and finesse. Floors tremble and windows rattle in their presence; these rapturous minstrels are not to be missed under any circumstance.
Drawing deep from a bountiful well of European folk traditions, from medieval melodies to modern grooves, from baroque to folk-rock, Sheelanagig’s irresistible alchemy makes it impossible to stand still. Their infectious energy and mischievous stagecraft are matched only by their impeccable musicianship—delighting festival crowds and intimate venues Alike.

‘What a joy…a good night out guaranteed’ – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

Buffo’s Wake is a 20 legged monstrosity, hatched in the murky backwater of Brighton, UK. Armed with an extravagant brass section, accordions, clarinets, violins and buckets full of bravado they waltz, tango, mosh and pogo their way through a vast array of influences from Eastern European folk tunes, Balkan brass bands and Slavic murder ballads, to punk rock and dark cabaret; telling tales of debauchery, disturbed nightmares and even more disturbing realities, with an unexpected nous for untold stories and unusually considered lyrics – when you can understand them, anyway.

A collective of musical misfits, drawn from a range of diverse backgrounds; Drum ‘n’ Bass DJs confront classical strings, DIY punks debate jazz obsessives, and introverted poets showdown with obnoxious showmen. Its a gloriously inconsistent mix of influences and personalities that will defy your expectations – unpredictable, chaotic and utterly engrossing.

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