Free Range is an award-winning arts charity that presents high-quality adventurous music and combined arts events in Canterbury, Kent.
Since we started in 2012 until the time of writing in 2021, we've presented 214 events, worked with 1004 artists, and reached an audience of over 13,000. All events are free-entry.

FLYING IBEX formed in 2011 when songwriter Barnaby Keen met drummer/producer Dave De Rose living in an old south London church, comandeered by artists. 

Starting his musicial life as a Saxophone player, Barnaby Keen jumped from the train of galactic, coltrane-inspired wanderings into a lush songwriting jungle whilst travelling in the northeast of Brazil. Back in Europe his near obsession produced an impressive catalogue of songs in every unimaginable shape and size.

Dave De Rose’s musical influences are as broad as his abilities as a drummer, having been the rhythmic backbone for many a headline act over his career, including Mark Ronson, Mulatu Astatke, Jamie Cullum and Moloko.

They spent hours directing noises toward the Alter, filling the cavernous space with experimental music and playing around on an old hammond organ that the church had left behind.

After returning from international duty with Soulstress Andreya Triana, Nathaniel Keen a guitarist and highly accomplished music-maker in his own right, heard the noises from his nearby south London pad and quickly jumped on board Flying Ibex’ ship to provide decorative basslines and vocal harmonies.

They started off as the church house band, improvising along to silent film projections, trapeze shows and offbeat theatre pieces, no doubt helping cement their musical relationship into something firmly maleable. A common love of analogue sounds, incessant grooves and polished performances inticed them to form a band and start gigging their own material.

They listen to old African pop cassettes and Brazilian Maracatu, mess around with delay pedals, and generally run down avenues of sound that are potentially as weird as they are potentially accessible.

You can either deep-sea-dive into the songs or try and untangle yourself from the perfectly executed, uncivilized beats. Whatever you choose to do, the songs will stick in your mind and the band will serve you up an irresistable feast of wayward groove.


Me and My Friends play soulful, poignant music with a beat: a unique blend of Afrobeat grooves with rich harmonies, languidly graceful cello and playfully funky clarinet, all tied together by the hauntingly elegant voice of singer and guitarist Nick Rasle.

Visit us at: www.meandmyfriends.co.uk

"Such interesting influences: English Folk and Afrobeat... beautiful" Cerys Matthews.

"Unusual instrumental forces create a sublime fusion that combines pastoral dreaminess with the heat of reggae, highlife and Afrobeat sounds” - Songlines Magazine.

“A life-affirming sound”, Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4.

Bookings: opusbeatsuk@hotmail.com

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//White Peach Records//

Manchester's best Ethio-Trad, Folk-Hop and Barrel-house pop band.
For booking enquiries contact:
<a href="mailto:honeyfeetmusic@gmail.com">honeyfeetmusic@gmail.com</a>
Follow on Twitter: @honeyfeetmusic


Breakcore Junglist cretin and BBL Sound System co-founder

For bookings contact: jaminnimjah@gmail.com

GO CRAB OR GO HOME!

Since their formation at Glastonbury Festival 2002, the ever-evolving collective Moulettes have forged an uncommon course. Over the years, The Moulettes have become an extended family tree, a musical ecosystem with tentacles in London, Manchester, Brighton, Bristol, Berlin, Montreal and more. From the avant-folk of their early al- bums to cinematic orchestral arrangements and big riffs, this is a band who put creativity at the heart of everything they do.

Moulettes have had support from all over the world, with praise and appreciation in the parallel worlds of Folk, Prog and Indie. Key supporters include BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, The Independent, MOJO, The Guardian, PROG Magazine, Music Week, Metro & The Evening Standard. As they reinvent and reimagine themselves at every stage with a revolving cast of exceptional musicians, Moulettes music is always distinctively recognisable.

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