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and Mojo 2011 Folk Album Of The Year  for Ragged Kingdom with June Tabor.
And over the years, 5 times BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners, hey!
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  Welcome to Oysterband's official website....


We are retiring as a touring act. But we've been taking our time about it.

Our best thanks to everyone who came to our recent shows in Denmark and Germany  - 
it was the most memorable end we could have imagined to our decades-long touring
career in those countries.  That the songs meant so much to so many people...felt like a validation
and the warmth reflected back to the stage astonishing and at times almost overwhelming. 'Bittersweet' doesn't begin to cover it.

Thanks for everything!

           
Our Long Long Goodbye tour finishes with a return to some places and areas that have had special significance for us over the years. A last chance to catch us at venues in the UK.  Most
are already sold out, but not (yet) Holmfirth on May 24th! (see below right)
                      Tickets for Holmfirth available via alonglonggoodbye.live
                     
                       Plus  -  NEW -  a one-off ceilidh night at the Westgate Hall, Canterbury on Sat 03 May with
                              the original Oyster Ceilidh Band (from 1976) and friends.  That's exactly where it all began...                               200 tickets only.  Bring dancing shoes.


    

 We'll be at
 TØNDER FESTIVAL
in Denmark
and SHREWSBURY FF
in UK
one last time in 2025

    



  

photo: Graham Whitmore
  









A LONG LONG GOODBYE




We set up a page at 
alonglonggoodbye.live


where you'll find links to tickets for all remaining shows from January 2025 onwards (except summer festivals), plus news and further dates.

Our final dates together with the great June Tabor ended on Oct 20th.  They were followed by a further 20 Oysterband-only shows in November and December, Celtic Connections in Glasgow in January, and farewell tours in Denmark and Germany in March.

Some remaining one-offs in UK and various festivals are listed on the right  → →


 


We mean to enjoy every last minute!




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Our latest album READ THE SKY is available (as CD or Download) from the usual places. 

CDs can also be bought  direct from the band at concerts and via this website that you're reading, http://www.oysterband.co.uk/shipchoice.asp


DOWNLOADS are available from iTunes, Amazon etc.

It was a strange job recording this one!  But it seems to have been very well received. We hope you enjoy the fruit of our labours.

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We're very pleased to say the LYRICS section of this website is now up and running at last.  Our thanks to Giolla Decair and Caz White, who did most of the work.  At 150+ songs it was no small task.  Now we can resolve those dressing-room arguments about "How did that one go??".....though possibly not the ones about which key it was in.

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     (A version of) Oysterband in 2015 at Bow Lake AB, Canada. Happy days...   Photo: Ben Malone
 




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READ THE SKY

THE LATEST OYSTERBAND STUDIO ALBUM




"...they tackle their task with rare urgency and valour, John Jones' voice still magnificent, and the tough arrangements and musical barrage around him delivered with blistering gusto."
                            -  Mojo ****

"A soundtrack for our times."

                            -  Folk London


And here's a track from it  -





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UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

 
"A LONG LONG GOODBYE" 


2025

OYSTERBAND:


A homecoming:
May 02  Gulbenkian Theatre  Canterbury  [UK]
              SOLD OUT

***May 03  Westgate Hall  Canterbury  [UK]***

May 07  Ludlow Assembly Rooms  Ludlow  [UK]      SOLD OUT

May 08  Ludlow Assembly Rooms  Ludlow  [UK]      SOLD OUT

May 09  End of the Pier Festival  Cromer  [UK]
             
SOLD OUT (FRIDAY EVENING)

May 10  Cambridge Junction  Cambridge  [UK]
             
SOLD OUT        

May 24  Picturedrome  Holmfirth  [UK]


June 28  Blacksheep Sommerfest
 
Schlosspark Bonfeld, 74906 Bad Rappenau
  [DE]

July 12  Ely Folk Fesival  Ely  [UK]

Aug 02  Northern Kin Festival  Thornley Hall
  Farm, Co. Durham DH6 3LY  [UK]

Aug 03  Wickham Festival  Wickham  [UK]

Aug 23 & 24  Shrewsbury Folk Festival
 
Shrewsbury [UK]

Aug 27 - 30  Tønder Festival  Tønder  [DK]


......and that's all, folks