Gwenifer Raymond (Early Show - 6pm)

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents:

Gwenifer Raymond

At The Ivy House - 25th November 2025

Due to demand and many people on the waiting list for Gwenifer Raymond's sold out show at The Ivy House on November 25th we added a second earlier show on the same day at the same venue.

Doors will open at 6pm and Gwenifer will perform from 6.20 to 7.20, no support for this one. Chris Rainier will be opening for the later sold out show.

Gwenifer began playing guitar at the age of eight shortly after having been first exposed to punk and grunge. After years of playing around the Welsh valleys in various punk outfits she began listening more to pre-war blues musicians as well as Appalachian folk players, eventually leading into the guitar players of the American Primitive genre. It was then that Gwenifer began writing her own moody and often-times manic original American Primitive styled compositions and started playing shows around the UK.

In 2017 she signed to the multi-Grammy award nominated label Tompkins Square. She released her first single 'Sometimes There's Blood' in October of that year and released her debut album 'You Never Were Much of a Dancer' in June of 2018 to worldwide acclaim.

What followed was much international touring. Gwenifer headlined shows across much of Europe, debuted at several summer festivals including Green Man, Black Deer and Supernormal to name but a fraction. She also played a number of support slots for well known artists such as Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, Xylouris White and Charlie Parr.

In early 2020 Gwenifer was all set to get into the studio to record her follow up album when the minor inconvenience of a worldwide pandemic complicated matters slightly, and so she was forced to record and produce the album herself in a make-shift bedroom studio at her home in Brighton, UK. 'Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain' was released in November of that year and received tremendous praise, especially as something of a transformation from her previous album, moving from a more traditional folk style into somewhat more avant-garde and complex compositions.

Her new album 'Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark' is out now.