What’s on this 2026-27 season

Celtic dance forms and traditional song, mixed with funk grooves, Middle Eastern melodies, Afrobeat and north Indian rhythms.

Over their 15-plus years on the international folk scene, UFQ have garnered a reputation as a crowd-pulling, energising act whilst maintaining fierce commercial and musical independence. Their output is built on hearty fiddle-led music that draws on Celtic dance forms and traditional song, but from there on it is unlike any folk band you’ve ever heard. UFQ’s approach is to embrace any influence from funk grooves to Middle Eastern melodies, Afrobeat to north Indian rhythms. UFQ consists of Galician Paloma Trigás, Joe Broughton, multi-instrumentalist Dan Walsh and cajonero Tom Chapman.