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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, and the rooms above pubs where things start. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
The home of English folk since 1930, with a mural that took Ivon Hitchens three years.
GigsWorth it for the building
The English Folk Dance and Song Society built it in 1930 and named it for Cecil Sharp, who spent his life writing down the songs and dances of English villages before the people who remembered them died. It is still the society's headquarters, and the country's only purpose-built folk venue.
Kennedy Hall, the main room, has a sprung floor for dancing and an Ivon Hitchens mural running the length of one wall — commissioned in 1951, three years in the painting and installed in 1954. The programme is folk in the widest sense: English song, ceilidhs, Irish and Scottish players, and touring artists from further afield. There is a library of folk material upstairs that anyone can use.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.