THE Band Room is offering five gigs for the price of one this weekend.

Let promoter Nigel Burnham explain: "The individual members of Anglo-Scottish folk supergroup The Furrow Collective – Rachel Newton, Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman and Alasdair Roberts – are each going to play a short solo set before returning to the stage together as the headline act," he says.

"These four fine soloists share a mutual love of traditional songs, from both sides of the English and Scottish borders, and back it up with exquisitely inventive, boundary-defying musicianship."

The Furrow Collective released their second album, Wild Hog, last November on Hudson Records. "Produced, like its 2014 predecessor At Our Next Meeting, by Andy Bell, it reveals a quantum leap in the group's sound and style, and it also features guest contributions by Alex Neilson, from Trembling Bells, on percussion and Stevie Jones, from Sound Of Yell, on double bass," says Nigel. "It reminds us of the dark, quirky, exotic songs of two all-time Band Room favourites, The Handsome Family and Michael Hurley."

The album's disquieting subject matters include swan murder in Polly Vaughn, sex, ghosts and defilement in Willie’s Fatal Visit and rape, defiance and childbirth in Prince Heathen, and further highlights are the cheerful, Appalachian-style Wild Hog In The Wood and the rueful Many’s The Night’s Rest.

The Furrow Collective were nominated for Best Group and Best Traditional Track in the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015, while Emily Portman was a nominee for Folk Singer Of The Year in the 2016 awards.

Tickets for Saturday's 7.30pm concert are on sale at £17.50 on 01751 432900 or at thebandroom.co.uk/gigs/the-furrow-collective