The opportunity to put on a gig by musician and woodworker Sam Moss at Nottingham’s premier music/woodworking space, By Our Hands We Make Our Way, was not something to be missed…

SAM MOSS

Sam Moss is a musician and instrumentalist based in Staunton, Virginia.

He crafts thoughtful, memorable indie-folk music which rambles through various offshoots of Americana. Gentle, finger-picked guitar. Captivating, evocative melodies. Warm, rich vocals.

Sam’s latest album, Swimming (2025), was acclaimed by publications including Spin, Uncut, Bandcamp and Aquarium Drunkard. He has played hundreds of shows across the US, sharing bills with Jake Xerxes Fussell, Joan Shelley, Diane Cluck, Doug Paisley and others.

“This fingerpicking guitar virtuoso characterizes the folk spirit in its finest sense.” Paste

“Swimming foregrounds his graceful guitar playing, his quietly intense vocals, and most of all his observant songwriting, all of which reveal new wisdom with each spin.” Spin

https://sammoss.bandcamp.com/

LEAH SINEAD

Leah Sinead is a musician and writer whose work quietly gained attention for its fragile, haunting sound under her previous alias, Keto. Dark, boldly individual, lo-fi folk music. Leah's debut album, Blackened Pool, was described as "minimal but utterly compelling" by The Quietus - an impressive album that "imbues millennial folk with post-rock tension".

In 2024 and 2025 Leah released Piece of Sky and the Western Buzz EP, which received love from BBC 6 Music, Radio X, BBC Introducing and more.

"It's a spellbinding, slowly unfolding, haunting song, stripped back to bare bones. Leah's voice is chilly and lonely, coming from somewhere across a darkening room and delivering carefully obscure lines" LeftLion

https://leahsinead.bandcamp.com/

ALEX HALE

A solo set by Nottingham's premier singer-songwriter (he of Alex Hale and the Private Sector). Songs about death, love and Long Eaton. Always a joy.

https://achband.bandcamp.com/

Tickets are £10.

All ages.

BYOB.

Nobody turned away for lack of funds.

By Our Hands We Make Our Way, Unit 42, Sneinton Market, Freckingham St, Nottingham, NG1 1DQ.

Photo of Alex Hale by the one and only Indiehorse: https://www.indiehorse.com/

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