This exciting wild band have taken English traditional folk music to new heights with their roots in well known acts such as Tunng, Tiger Moth, Trans-Global Underground and the deft musical touch of Paul Weller...

Saturday October 2nd: Savoy Theatre: 10pm : €27 euro + booking

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Several years in the making, The Imagined Village is a collaboration between a varied group of musicians (with roots in many different types of music, from traditional folk to bhangra), brought together by Simon Emmerson, who wanted to explore their musical roots and identity as English musicians. The original group included Eliza Carthy, Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Chris Wood, Johnny Kalsi, Martin Carthy, Paul Weller, Sheila Chandra, Simon Emmerson, The Copper Family, The Gloworms, Tiger Moth, Trans-Global Underground and Tunng. Their first performance was at Womad in 2007, and they have been touring regularly since, including a performance on Jools Holland in 2009.

In the 2008 Radio 2 Folk Awards they won Best Traditional Track (Cold Haily Rainy Night), and were the winners of three Hancock Awards in 2008: Best Album, Best Original Song (Cold Haily Rainy Night) and Best Traditional Song (Tam Lyn Retold). 

With the release of their second album Empire & Love in 2010, the band has shrunk (a little), making less use of occasional headline artists and turning more into an real band, comprising, in the main: Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Chris Wood, Johnny Kalsi, Sheila Chandra, Simon Emmerson, Sheema Mukherjee, Ali Friend, Barney Morse Brown, Simon Richmond and Andy Gangadeen.