CLARKE CAMILLERI & JUDE BROTHERS WITH LAZI BONES & ALEX AKIBA

A very special night at The Peer Hat, as favourite, CLARKE CAMILLERI returns in the company of multi-instrumentalist JUDE BROTHERS to create something very beautiful and unique together.

Clarke Camilleri is a roaming song-maker whose music resists easy labels. His writing is eclectic yet unmistakably his own, shaped by the many musical worlds he’s wandered through.

Raised in Nottinghamshire and steeped in the echoes of the UK blues and folk revival, Clarke grew into a true troubadour—rolling from country to country, banjo slung over his shoulder, carrying songs like companions. “I love the access that being a musician gives you into other lives,” he says. “I like being brave with it and seeing where it gets me.” The result is a body of work woven from countless stories—some light, some heavy, all deeply human—that ripple through his songs.

Jude Brothers is a folk derived singer-songwriter from Arkansas, with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky.

Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling, leaping, pirouetting through a mystical landscape of their own creation.

Local support from:

LAZY BONES Mike Wilson, legendary Mancunian musician and incredible fellow will be gracing us with his idiosyncratic playing.

ALEX AKIBA  is a folk musician hailing from Disley. Blending introspective lyrics inspired by nature, with intricate fingerstyle guitar, Alex’s sound evokes the subtle emotional depth of artists like Nick Drake and John Martyn.
With a growing presence in the North West’s folk circuit, Alex has performed at various pubs and cafes around Lancaster and Morecambe. Notably, he supported Daudi Matsiko at More Music and is scheduled to perform at the Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival (2025) on the John McAteer Stage.