Folk Session: Seb Stone & Friends

Considered the 'Future of Folk', we are excited to welcome back singer, whistle player and uilleann piper, Seb Stone, to Royal Holloway for this special folk session with some of leading voices on the trad scene.

This event is presented as part of the International Concert Series 2025-26 - VOX HUMANA - at Royal Holloway.

About the performers

Seb Stone is a trad singer, whistle player and uilleann piper from the Peak District. After graduating from Royal Holloway University in 2022, with singing lessons at the Royal Academy of Music, he won both the Future of Folk and Shantyman of the Year awards at Bromyard Folk Festival, as well as Stainsby Folk Festival’s singing competition. In autumn 2023, he was billed alongside Martin Carthy at Cork Folk Festival, and sang on stage with the Wilson Family at Hartlepool Folk Festival a week later. He draws on a varied repertoire of traditional English and Irish songs, focussing on the stories they have to tell, and their relevance to our modern world. Seb is very active in the Sheffield folk scene, regularly attending and running sessions for both tunes and songs, and his debut album, recorded with Scribe Records, released in March 2024.

Car parking

When you arrive for a College event at our Egham campus, please park in car parks 12 or 4.

Car park 12 can be accessed by turning right as you enter the main College gates and is located next to the tennis courts. If this car park is full, please drive further onto our campus to car park 4, which can be accessed by turning left at the mini-roundabout behind the Students’ Union. We would advise that you bring the College map to campus with you and give yourself plenty of time to park.

Blue Badge holders can find designated parking spaces in Car park 1W, as well as between Gardeners Lodge and the Williams Annexe. You can find these locations by looking at our campus map opposite. If you require any assistance on arrival, please contact our premises team in advance of your visit by emailing: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk and they will be happy to help.

Please note that we operate an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system on certain parts of our campus, however if you are here for an organised event, parking is unrestricted for event guests in car parks 12, 4 or 14 (or display your blue badge permit if parking in a disabled bay). If you have any questions about parking, please email: premisesadmin@royalholloway.ac.uk