LAKE District Folk and Acoustic Club celebrates its third birthday in January and since it started has attracted many first class performers to the River Bar, at Staveley's Hawkshead Brewery. Meanwhile, the club's next gig features Kim Lowings and The Greenwood on Friday, December 14.

Based in Stourbridge in the West Midlands, they play a mix of contemporary, original and traditional folk song. The Greenwood have supported acts such as Martin Simpson, Dave Swarbrick, Faustus and Belshazzar's Feast.

Kim and The Greenwood four-piece have firmly rooted themselves into the British folk scene. Mike Harding describes their sound as "punchy and authentic" and cleverly combines original songs with familiar traditional tales highlighting the continued relevance of tradition today. Singer-songwriter Kim Lowings heads up the four piece alongside Andrew Lowings, Tim Rogers and Dave Sutherland, with a grace and charisma that draws you in, reminiscent of troubadours of old.

They were winners of the First Friday Folk and Roots song Competition 2012 and won the Warwick New Folk Competition 2014.

As well as being one half of KL and The Greenwood, Kim and her father Andrew also perform as a duo. Their sound draws together mountain dulcimer, guitar, bouzouki and piano to resonate with Kim’s lyric writing and arrangements of traditional folk song. They have been writing and collaborating together since 2011.

The Friday, December 14, gig starts at 8pm.