A close up picture of Chris Wood playing a guitar

Chris Wood

Global/Folk Sat 14 Mar 2026, 7:45pm The Forge

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£20 (includes £4 booking fee)

Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the unofficial history of the English-speaking people. With gentle intelligence, he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. His writing is permeated with love and wry intelligence, uplifting, and challenging as he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after-anotherness of life. 

Winner of 6 BBC Folk Awards and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, and Eliza Carthy. A wise and soulful craftsman, his concerts are a cliché-free zone.

Reviews

5 Stars

As close as it gets to a perfect union of voice and guitar, lyrics and melody, compassion, irony, realism, wit, and humanity
The Herald

5 Stars

Nobody comes even close to equaling his bird’s-eye-view
The Irish Times

5 Stars

Wood has honed his songwriting to perfection here… heart-breaking purity
Express

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