Songs of the Solstice 2025

Songs of the Solstice celebrations begin…

Richard, Amy, Howard, Daisy and Django have been delighting audiences with this year’s Songs of the Solstice gigs containing Christmas favourites and tour classics from across the years...
Ice Garden

Ice Garden

The first track from Richard's new Christmas album is out this Saturday, 29th November...
2025 break from Christmas concert rehearsals

12 sleeps until Richard’s first Christmas Concert!

Richard, Amy, Howard, Daisy and Django have been deep in rehearsals for Richard's 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour. The fun begins during the first weekend of Advent...
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Celebrate a British Isles Midwinter

Richard’s love of music is tangled up in the seasons. Once Halloween passes, things turn wintry. The annual Christmas tour is an expression of a British Isles Midwinter...
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Bon Voyage!

Richard is about to set sail for a week of French Guitar Adventurers in the warm autumn sunshine of the Charente...
Richard's summer tour 2025

Some Like it Hot

...but this ancient Sussex Yew tree gave some emergency shade to English Black Oak more than three times its age!
Richard performing as part of the Arts Alive rural touring programme

The hills of Herefordshire are alive with the sound of music

And that is mainly thanks to Arts Alive/Flicks in the Sticks who promote live music, film and theatre in that beautiful part of the British Isles...
Richard in St Magnus Cathedral in 2022

But you’d look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle made for one…

A guitar and a banjo will be Richard's only companions on his ride to Shropshire next week - but they won’t have a seat. Instead they’ll be towed along in the trusty “Cycling Music" bicycle trailer...
Richard Durrant's cycling tour

Richard’s Gentle Climate Activism

Since 2014 Richard and his guitar have cycled thousands of miles around the British Isles raising awareness of climate change, the clean power of the bicycle and the magic of live music...
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Summer of Bach

J S Bach has been a constant companion on Richard’s musical journey since his 1986 London debut with a performance of Bach's D minor Chaconne...