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STOP PRESS - October 2021.
We now have a very small number of extra tickets available as the venue has decided to open the seats upstairs in the balcony. We now have 10 balcony seats available. Once our allocation here sells out you can still buy direct from the venue, Stanley Halls.

Here's their ticket site and Box Office 'phone number: 03336663366 or you can turn up on person during their regular opening hours to buy tickets.

A Mojo top 10 album winner in 2017 and 2018

'She writes the sort of songs you want to pin the lyrics of on your bedroom wall, or on the office door, to remind you and everyone else who might read them what is important and true' Buzz Magazine

'A millennial's Billy Bragg' Songlines

A folk singer, songwriter and activist from Leicester, UK, Grace has been writing, recording and touring relentlessly for ten years. Her unique takes on life, love and politics, and the warmth and wit with which they are delivered, have won over audiences everywhere, across the alternative, folk, political and comedy scenes. She has racked up tour supports with Emmy the Great and Billy Bragg, and in 2019 supported Frank Turner on his UK arena tour. She has made her mark in the comedy scene regularly supporting comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long on tour and she has also collaborated with some of the most respected names in folk, including Leon Rosselson, Roy Bailey and Peggy Seeger.

She regularly tours soldout shows across the UK and has appeared at an eclectic genre-crossing mix of festivals Latitude, Musicport, 2000Trees, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Greenbelt, Cambridge Folk Festival and in 2019 packed out The Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival.

Through all of this she has quietly become one of the most respected songwriters working in the UK today. She has been a frequent guest on BBC Radio 4's the Now Show, has appeared on Channel 4's Random Acts and has been featured in The Guardian, Diva Magazine and The Independent On Sunday and in 2019 is nominated as Musician Of The Year in the Diva Awards..

In May 2018 a Kickstarter campaign for her first full studio album, after five previous available-at-gig-only albums. She raised £10,000 in just 24 hours and went on to achieve £18.000 in the two week campaign. The album, 'Queer As Folk', was released in September 2018 and has gone on to be named a top 10 Folk Album of 2018 by Mojo magazine.

What the media said about Queer As Folk:

'Queer As Folk may well turn out to be one of my albums of the year' Folking.com

'An album of personal and political power, passion and perception, it is hugely
persuasive proof that Petrie most deservedly earns her place at the table.' Folk
Radio

'She's the urgent, pulsing, compassionate talent this world desperately needs.'
Deborah Frances-White writing in The Observer

'Just when you thought that what folk music needs right now is a strident left-wing female causing a bit of carnage, here's Grace Petrie.' **** Mojo

Grace did a live session for Jo Whiley on her BBC Radio 2 show in September '19 including an unforgettable cover of 'I Will Always Love You' ahead of her autumn 2019 tour which included 11 sold-out dates.

gracepetrie.com | @gracepetrie | facebook.com/gracepetriemusic

There is ramped access to Stanley Halls, and the loos, concert hall and bar are all on the ground floor.

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Stanley Halls was built by William Stanley, a self-made local businessman, inventor, engineer, architect, philanthropist, and writer.
Hardly used for years, it is now entering a new period of growth and expansion. Our aim is to fill the building with a community of artists across a wide variety of different creative disciplines, traditional and modern, both craft-based and cutting edge.
Our performance schedule will be about promoting the very best emerging artists across all performance forms.
Background:
Stanley Halls is run by Stanley People's Initiative, a charity set up by local people to save the building from permanent closure. They took over responsibility for running Stanley Halls in 2015, when they signed a 35-year lease with Croydon Council.
They get no regular grant funding and depend upon income from events and hires to keep the building open. Day to day operations depend on a small staff team, supported by volunteers.
Please consider making a donation to support our work.

12 South Norwood Hill,

South Norwood,

London,

Greater London,

England,

SE25 6AB.

020 8653 3630