Today (September 1st) is a very special day for us here at Folkroom. When we put on our first gig – exactly five years ago! – we never could have imagined how far we’d come in the next half a decade.

We’ll be celebrating our anniversary on September 19th with a big gig featuring more than 15 different acts. The must-see gig of the year, we feel it’s a real statement of the community we’re lucky to have seen form around us. You can buy your tickets here for only £8.80 – that’s a mere 55p an artist!

Until then, we thought we’d look back on our top ten proudest moments of the past 5 years:

10. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker’s wry take on ‘Knowing Me Knowing You’ at our Abba tribute night.

9. All three of the Christmas gigs we’ve been honoured to put on with our friends at Before the Gold Rush.

8. Lucy Cait’s surprise re-emergence as an indie rock superstar at our Anthology Three gig last January!

7. The sold-out Southbank Centre launch for Josienne and Ben’s first album on the label. Terrifying, but terrific.

6. All the releases we put out between the spring and autumn of 2012 – Lucy, Patch, Robin, Sophie and The Lost Cavalry! We got a little too ambitious there, if anything.

5. Not being sued by Disney for our ambitious (and very busy) covers gig, culminating in an Aristocats-inspired procession through the venue.

4. Our feature in The Guardian – the first of many breakthroughs into the major press.

3. The sell-out launch gig for Anthology One, our first release on the Folkroom label (with all eleven of the featured acts playing the same gig!)

2. Daniel Duke’s triumphant headline set to a packed out tent at Home Farm Festival 2015 – lit by the audience’s phones as he carried on playing throughout the duration of a devastating power cut.

1. Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker winning the BBC Radio 2 ‘Best Duo’ Folk Award off the back of their Folkroom-released album ‘Nothing Can Bring Back The Hour’.