FOLK trio Faustus will tour the UK this autumn following the 2017 release of their EP Slaves, and are set to perform at the returning Whitchurch Folk Club.

Faustus is a well established name in the English folk scene made up of three of the best-known and talented English folk musicians – Paul Sartin, Benji Kirkpatrick , and Saul Rose.

Faustus were in the recent production and tour of The Transports, alongside a stellar line up of folk musicians, telling tales of exile and migration, dubbed the ‘folk music event of 2017’.

During 2016 Faustus were artists in residence at Halsway Manor, the National Centre for Folk Arts in Somerset, where they had access to the Manor’s extensive library and where their 2016 record Death and Other Animals was recorded.

Death and Other Animals has just received the German Critics Award in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter/World Music Category, a great achievement that should stand them in good stead for their maiden German tour in September.

The band said: “It’s an honour to be the opening act of the Whitchurch Folk Club, relaunched (with the help of local resident Paul Sartin) after a thirty-year sabbatical. Whitchurch is one of our regular destinations but this evening promises to be something extraordinary. We’ll be preceded by our old friends and special guests Bampton Morris, Jackie Oates and John Spiers – who knows, we may even end up collaborating on a number or two?”

The gig is on October 13, at Whitchurch Parish Hall. The show starts at 8pm and tickets cost £14, £12 for concessions.

For more information and to buy tickets, go to www.grizzlyfolk.com/whitchurch-folk-club.