Sat 15 Aug
|Church Playing Fields
The Shires + Guest Support
A Very Special Exclusive East Anglian Summer Matinee!
Time & Location
15 Aug 2026, 13:30 – 16:00
Church Playing Fields, 3 Bridge St Rd, Lavenham, Sudbury CO10 9SH, UK
About the event
The Shires + Guest Support (Historic Lavenham August Theatre
The UK’s biggest country music export, THE SHIRES have announced an intimate acoustic tour for 2026 with an exclusive Lavenham, Suffolk date on Saturday, 15th August 2026. This will see Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes performing all their classic tracks.
THE SHIRES achievements speak for themselves: three consecutive UK Top 3 albums, four #1 UK Country albums, 100 million+ streams, two Gold-certified records, and countless sold-out headline shows, including filling the prestigious Royal Albert Hall.
THE SHIRES first broke through in 2014 with their single ‘Nashville Grey Skies’, a playful song about Britain needing its own country scene. And that’s something which they helped happen, starting with their 2015 debut Brave, which became the first ever Top 10 album by a UK country music artist. That success continued with a succession of hit albums: 2016’s My Universe, 2018’s Accidentally On Purpose,…