Bushwood Area Guide

These Wellbeing Cafés run by the charity Mind offer weekly face-to-face sessions for residents of Waltham Forest over 18 who experience low mood, anxiety, loneliness, or social isolation. Offering light refreshments, social time, wellbeing sessions, activities, advice and learning sessions to choose from. These are open to members only. Referral/sign-up only: you can refer yourself on the Mind website.

Otis Gibbs is a songwriter, storyteller, painter, photographer, and planter of 7,176 trees. He once wrestled a bear and lost. He's been called the best unknown songwriter in music today, but if you ask him, hell just say he's a folksinger. The Trust Of Crows, his tenth studio album, was recorded at the iconic Columbia Studio A in Nashville, where Bob Dylan made Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline. It's been closed to the public for decades, but Otis was given permission to record there. Gibbs storytelling extends beyond music to his YouTube channel, where more than 100,000 subscribers listen to tales and folklore passed down by legendary musicians. In an effort to preserve these personal stories before theyre lost to history, he single handedly built a living archive in the spirit of The Lomax Family, Studs Terkel or even Charles Kuralt. This deeply personal project reflects Otis reverence for history, lived experience, and the characters who shaped American roots music from the ground up. Gibbs has been likened to everyone from Guthrie to Springsteen but his is the rare voice that stands on its own ESQUIRE Gibbs songwriting is deeply personal and profound. It's plain to see Otis Gibbs is a man you should give a damn about ROLLING STONE Man, can this singer tell a story USA TODAY Back when Greg Brice played the pubs, clubs and bars of the West Midlands he'd often find some of the toughest audiences you could imagine hanging on his every word within a few bars. His intricate fingerstyle guitar and strident electric slide connected in the raw and immediate way that only proper roots music can. And that voice clear as a bell, powerful and pure. 'a virtuoso guitarist who sings like Lowell George, you're gonna like him' ANDY KERSHAW

Alan Barnes - sax James Davison - trumpet Robin Aspland - piano Jeremy Brown bass Matt Fishwick drums Alan Barnes has been recognized as a virtuosic sax/clarinet player, composer, arranger and bandleader for more than 40 years. The recipient of more than 30 British Jazz Awards, he has twice been named BBC Jazz Musician of the Year and includes work in the UK, Europe and the US with the likes of Michel Legrand, Jamie Cullum & Van Morrison. Tonight, featuring James Davison-trumpet, Robin Aspland-piano, Jeremy Brown-bass and Matt Fishwick-drums Alan brings his tribute to the brilliant US saxophonist Art Pepper to the Club. Over to Alan: I put together this all-star band to celebrate the centenary of Art Pepper's birth. Art's playing was sovirtuosic andbeautifulfor me, that was how the alto sax should be played!. Don't miss Alan and the band as they play Art's original, swinging, tunes alongside classic jazz standards plus some of Alan's own, terrific compositions. Alan Barnes is usually tagged with the rather unglamorous term Mainstream.True, youre unlikely to find him hanging out with Norwegian experimentalists, string quartets or DJ's, issuing an album of Radiohead covers or rediscovering the joys of punk rock.

Keegan McInroe is a writer, musician. and international touring artist based in Fort Worth, Texas. He recently released Neon John, his eighth studio album. Keeping in spirit with his predecessor troubadour minstrels, Keegan has spent the better part of the last two decades traversing the roads, wildernesses, and cities of the Old World and New, weaving the resulting experiences and observations together with varied influences from folk, country, and the blues to create an original and evolving tapestry of lyric-driven American roots music. He has shared the stage with Leon Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willis Alan Ramsey, Otis Taylor, Carolyn Wonderland, Ian Moore, Shovels & Rope, Kaitlin Butts, Charley Crockett, and others. He has been published in various papers and magazines for his travel writings, stories, poems, and occasional forays into politics. Additionally, he has hosted The Keegan McInroe Radio Hour and The Uncouth Pilgrim Podcast, both of which are currently on indefinite hiatus. Morton Valence are a singing duo based around the vocal pairing of songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Robert 'Hacker' Jessett and Anne Gilpin. They term their music 'Urban Country', which is basically, their slightly idiosyncratic take on country music. The fact that they come from London, where many of their songs are set, gives their interpretation of Americana something of a different twist. They were described by The Guardian as being "one of the most intriguing bands on these shores".