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Solstice return to Oundle during their 2025 Clann Tour and bring along Leonie Jane Kennedy as their very special guest.

No stranger to the Queen Victoria Hall we are extremely proud to be hosting them once again here at the scene of their Soundle 22 headline triumph.

Tickets are £20 in advance and £25 on the door

A story that began at the legendary Marquee Club in London's Wardour Street finally arrives at the chapter PROG journalist Martin Kielty describes as "Solstice be- coming the band they were always meant to be"

On ?Light Up? released January 13th 2023:

"Nothing prepared me for the extraordinary new line-up that they have settled on in the last few years. Solstice are back and are back to being brilliant. Light Up is utterly sensational: beautiful production, great songs, great voices, tricky rhythms and epic guitar solos.? Greg Spawton, Big Big Train

?Wow! - that's a great sounding album! Very Solstice, and a wonderfully dynamic vibe. Evokes the spirit of the band I first saw in the 80s, but with very much a ?here and now? production sound that brings with it the wisdom of those ensuing years. Jerry Ewing, Editor PROG mag.

? I loved them then and I love them now... it?s a life affirming, joyous sound? Steven Wilson

?Solstice - absolutely outstanding! This band are riding a wave of inspiration right now. The current line up is amazing with each of the eight onstage playing their part to the full. It has to be the happiest and most joyful band on the circuit!? TPA

With the beguiling presence of new vocalist Jess Holland and following the release of 2020 album ?Sia? and ?Light Up? 2023, Solstice have become THE band to catch live this year. With a string of high profile festival appearances from Glastonbury and Cropredy to Milan, the band?s star continues its rapid ascendence while UK, US and European festival promoters alike add Solstice to their lineups.

Their brand new live album ?Return To Cropredy? is all the evidence you?ll need.
The blu-ray version includes the full ?Fairport?s Cropredy Convention? concert film, in front of 20k people, along with the excellent Shaun Blake documentary ?New Light? featuring Steven Wilson, Clive Bunker, Gregory Spawton and Jerry Ewing.

The new studio album ?Clann? releases in April 2025 and will no doubt continue their upward trajectory bringing their music to an ever growing audience. Loved by luminaries like Steven Wilson and Greg Spawton of Big Big Train, Solstice remain a band you?ll never find in the mainstream yet whose music continues to enthral music fans old and new.

Leonie Jane Kennedy is a multi award winning singer songwriter, often described as haunting by her audiences. With intricate guitar riffs alongside powerful, soulful vocals, Leoni is a musical polymath creating a new wave of rock with progressive influence in her rhythmic and melodic structures, offering lyrics that surpass her years. With a touch of a young Bonnie Raitt in her, Leoni performs her songs with a passion and deliver second to none and is described by The New York Times as "a welcomed portal to something passionate and powerful".

Winning her first title as the UK?s number 1 under 19?s singer songwriter award in 2014, thirteen year old Leoni performed live at the Houses of Parliament in London which led to a Yamaha sponsorship and an endorsement from Orange Amplification. Leoni would go on to win further songwriting awards and in 2018, 'Queen's? Brian May and Roger Taylor chose her from hundreds of applicants to receive the 'Freddie Mercury' Scholarship, financing her entire university tuition fees. Leoni graduated with First Class Honours and then moved to North London were she is currently studying a Masters Degree in Songwriting.

She began touring with The Anchoress in 2023 as their lead guitarist and opened the shows with a set of original acoustic material, with some of the larger shows being support slots for The Manic Street Preachers at Trentham Live. For the majority of her work, Leoni uses PRS Guitars, and her talents were again recognised when she was chosen as a ?PRS Guitars Pulse Artist? for 2023/2024, representing the brand as an artist in her own right. Leoni?s latest album ?New World Woman? was independently recorded and released by her in 2023 as an acoustic compilation of reinterpreted tracks, originally penned by the Canadian prog rock legends ?Rush?. After raising a whopping £5.8K via a Kickstarter? campaign, Leoni then had the funding to create a huge merchandise range with products such as executive bundles, stunning limited edition marbled vinyl and the original album artwork on canvas up for grabs. ?New World Woman? has been a great success, completely selling out of CD?s with only a few vinyl remaining since coming back from Germany and The Netherlands on tour supporting Rush tribute band Moving Pictures. They have been doing so in the UK for a year to promote this album which has gained worldwide praise and the hearts of many.

Described as a ?force of nature?, Leoni Jane Kennedy is recognised by most in the UK industry as one to watch out for.

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7 West Street,

Oundle,

Northamptonshire,

England,

PE8 4EJ.