20260206: Friday 6th February 2026: Brooks Williams
£15.00
Support: Romy Gensale
At the Golden Hind, 355 Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1SP
8pm (Doors open 7:30pm)
Entry: £16(door), £15(advance), £14(members).
Statesboro, Georgia-born, Cambridge, England-based guitarist singer and songwriter Brooks Williams, a leading light on the roots acoustic music scene, has over 33 recordings and has appeared at countless venues and festivals for over three decades.
From Celtic Connections to Cropredy, Glastonbury to Philadelphia, Kerville to Winnipeg, Costa del Folk to Shrewsbury, there's very few stages Brooks Williams hasn't played.
He moves effortlessly between country, blues and folk. WUMB-FM Boston names Williams one of their Top 100 All-Time Artists and he's listed in the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists.
RnR writes, Williams is a "guitarist in possession of rich vocal powers and a talent for lyrical imagery, his songs are imbued with uplifting generosity".
Brooks Williams, writes Fatea, is “quite simply one of the most unassuming, natural performers on the circuit, and his easy, relaxed manner conceals the greatest level of true expertise.”
His collaborations with Aaron Catlow, Vera van Heeringen, Boo Hewerdine, Hans Theessink, Sloan Wainwright and the late, great Rab Noakes, to name but a few, are legendary.
"One of the most consistently excellent musicians in roots music." American Roots UK
Romy Gensale’s music and songwriting life starts way back in the early 1980’s in her home Town, London, with her first band, an all female five piece called Drunk on Cake, playing their own brand of original music at popular independent and thriving venues, such as Camden’s Powerhaus and Dingwalls to Brixton’s Ace Club, and later finding herself in an 8 piece World Music band called Speaking in Tongues, gracing the stages of the ICA and The Marquee and filling out the Borderline as resident band. Her claim to fame was headlining an evening with support by an extremely talented Tori Amos making her mark on the Uk.
Romy later moved to Norfolk for a quieter lifestyle and started to make her own mark on the world when she decided to go solo and begin recording her own music.
“I’ve always been a fan of songwriters who can take a step back from life, really look at it in detail, make sense of it and then turn that perspective into something beautiful. A modern and feistily independent example of such is Romy Gensale” Helen Robinson, Sounds Magazine.
Romy has since formed a ‘rock fusion’ band called ROME, taking her self penned music to a new and exciting level, and making waves at venues keen to promote original music.
Tonight, Romy will be offering a selection of her hauntingly beautiful, provocative and enchanting self penned songs in their original format, stripped back down to guitar and voice.