When Music Finds You: Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham at Lefty’s

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunnigham

Lefty's Music Hall | Sat 28th March 2026

Sometimes music just saunters up to you, introduces itself and makes your life better.

A case in point: Saturday night at Lefty’s Music Hall. A friend has tickets to see Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham. Do I want to go?

Who the hell are they? No idea. But it is a night out with a dear friend at a great venue so why not? What’s the worst that can happen?

Sometime music wanders up, offers to buy you a drink and is the best thing to happen in a good, long while.

It’s magical, isn’t it, when a few people pick up their instruments, play them and let you listen? They don’t get paid enough, obviously. Nobody who does this gets paid enough. But they still let us listen.

I should categorise what they played, the genres, the vibe. Doesn’t matter. You don’t care about it all that much. I’m not going to pretend to know. Country, blues, folk? All of the above. More country than anything but not just country. There are other things going on.

Anyway, genre and style are irrelevant when you’re in the company of people who can summon up joy from wood, strings and voices. I have no doubt that if they decided to try their hand at Norwegian doomcore they’d be magnificent but tonight, sensibly, they gave the audience what they came for. Though Ürquhart og Cünningham does have a certain ring to it. Just saying…

Tonight they play a generous selection from their latest album Everything Around You and other nuggets from their back catalogue, including Cunningham’s side-hustle The Waifs. It’s a set of highlights but moody, twangy gem We’ll Never Get Out Of Love Alive is a particular favourite. Deliciously poisonous indeed…

You might not like country music, and fair enough. I don’t NOT like country but tend to approach it with trepidation and a hint of suspicion. It ain’t for me, as a general rule.

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham will change your mind if it needs changing. They’ll lift you up, twirl you around and convince you that everything will be fine. They’ll keep playing, you’ll keep dancing and slowly but surely it’ll be a little bit easier to raise a smile.

Wonderful.