The evening offers a taster for the week’s entertainment to come over the Festival week in February 2026 with festival artists performing music and poetry.
Featuring: Danny Bradley & Chris Sewart
Danny Bradley
Danny Bradley is a fingerstyle-folk guitarist and songwriter who has toured as the support act for Richard Thompson and Fairport Convention.
Winner of the Liverpool Acoustic Judges Award, he has also opened for Jon Gomm, Martin Carthy, and Tony McManus.
Born in the USA, but having grown up in the UK, Danny Bradley has been described by Americana as UK "less a one man band, and more a one man orchestra... A poetic soul, and a sublime vocal range, reminiscent of the late Jeff Buckley".
Danny's debut album 'Small Talk Songs' is available now.
Chris Sewart - Poet & Author
Chris is our Festival Poet and will again be leading our Poetry events at this year’s festival. He lives in Beverley and has been writing poetry for over 25 years.
Chris has been published in numerous journals and magazines and he has won awards for his poems and short stories. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Larkin Poetry Prize in the East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition and has since won the Gold Prize in the same competition, in 2021 and 2022.
In the last 12 months new work has been published in, or is forthcoming in, The Fig Tree webzine and Coal Mining Special, High Wolds Poetry Collection, Theleme Zine, Obsessed With Pipework, Crossing The Tees Anthology, Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology, Parracombe Prize, and Echoes – 20 years of Write Out Loud.
Chris is a member of The Poetry Society, The Society of Authors, and The Philip Larkin Society.
More information on Chris’s writing can be found at: The Society of Authors.
