Gigs are what we do best.
We are delighted with our line up of great live music and entertainment.
Nearly all gigs are ticketed, the exception is when it’s a Bank Holiday, Saturday or our Beer Festival.
Please do book tickets in advance. We recommend doing this as many of our gigs sell out.
If you are a carer, please access a ‘CARER’ ticket on the event ticket page. Most gigs will have three carer tickets available. If you can’t see it on offer they may have gone. You can contact us
If you want a ‘CONCESSION” ticket then have one. Most gigs have ‘concession’ tickets. You don’t have to show anything, or prove anything to access them. Student /Skint*/Teacher/Blue lightworker/ Old/Young.
If you are coming as Gig Buddies - tell the bar and claim a free portion of chips
*If you are really skint and want to come to a gig, let us know in advance, we may be able to sort something.
Email lotte@theprincealbertstroud.co.uk, maybe you can help by putting up posters
Recently added gigs
'Gantigan'
We welcome this drumming troupe perform lively and uplifting djembe rhythms. Led by members of 'Bantaba' who regularly perform at Glastonbury festival. Tap your feet to the beat or jump up and dance if the moment takes you!
Supalung
Sam Brookes and Pete Josef are SUPALUNG. And that's enough. More than enough. Superb musician ship and playing live attire Prince Albert here in June.
Alt Indie Folk Rock Dreams for your pleasure.
Stroud Valleys Project Quiz
Quiz Night fund raiser for Stroud Valleys Project, a fantastic charity that we fully support here at the Albert. Book a table by calling the pub on 01453 755600
Songs from the Porch, CAW
Suer Sunday Summer Solstice evening with Stroud choir of angels, CAW, and Songs from the Porch.
LIKE THE JAM
Very happy welcome Like …The Jam to blast your Saturday night with all the best of Weller, The Jam and all the Modfather classics. Free entry, although we do ask for you to contribute dollar to the hat. Bring cash. Serving food until 9.30pm.
Monthly Folk Session
All welcome, friendly informal gathering inside. Serving food until 9pm
Joshua Burnside, Myles McCormack
Re-scheduled date. Ticket holders from original date still applicable. Support from Myles McCormack
Monthly Folk Session
All welcome, friendly informal gathering inside. Serving food until 9pm
Quiz - Allsorts Fundraising night
It’s quiz night, and tonight Allsorts the excellent local charity that makes fun days accessible for EVERY body.
Call the pub on 01453 755600 to book a table. £3 in per haead, teams of up to six.
Brian Wilcox Album launch
Brian brings his blend of heartfelt and observational lyrics with simple guitar to the Albert. Expect no fireworks or glitter cannons but do expect to be charmed and captivated by thought provoking and engaging songs”. “He will be accompanied by acoustic guitarist Nick Brooks”
Dryadic
Fabulous Dryadic are back. Always a heart warming and life affirming evening .
"Vibrant, memorable folk-pop" Atwood Magazine
"Refreshingly bold.” FAMEmagazine
An infectious blend of rootsy folk with a melodic pop flair on strings and keys, peppered with heart soaring vocals and vibrant fiddle licks.
Earl Temple Foundation
Five the coolest dudes in all the five valleys bring their music to a saturday night top banana Albert gig
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, a dynamic duo, fuse their deep-seated love for English and Irish folk traditions into a vibrant project that's as grounded in tradition as it is daring in innovation. With their latest album, HINTERLAND, receiving five star reviews everywhere tis is gong to be one of THE gigs of the year here.
Sam Brookes
One of our favourite performers returns with his solo project . Tickets coming soon.
Spafford CampbelL
Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism.
Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre — and finds gold in the embers.
Jon Wilks
Jon is a stand-out folk guitarist and sublime songwriter. His recent music career includes four solo albums and one EP. His last album won TheGuardian Folk Album of the month, Jon was recently Mark Radcliffe’s session guest on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show and appeared in worldwide magazine The Guitarist with a double page spread.
Ray Cooper
Ray Cooper is a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He played cello, bass and sang backing vocals with Oysterband for 23 years before leaving to go solo in 2013. Since then he has recorded five solo albums and made over 40 tours in Europe, the UK and Canada.
Ray has lived in Sweden since 2000 where he records in his own studio in a log cabin close to the forest.
Returning to the Prince Albert, Ray will showcase songs and tunes from his latest album, ‘Even For A Shadow’ as well as favourites from his previous four solo albums.
SCUSTIN
Scustin are purveyors of "Post - Funk".
imagine what would happen if Blindboy, Mike Skinner and Jamiroquai went for a boozy night out in Bray ……
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Mad Dog Mcrea
Our now annual trip from the Mad Dog Mcrea happy bus - get your tickets now before they sell out
POSTPONED _ Unlucky Drag Bingo
Get ready for a night of glitter, giggles, and good ol’ fashioned B-I-N-G-O! We thought when better to play bingo than Friday the 13th
Dead Belgian
"The perfect re-imagining of Jacques Brel from a group of exceptionally talented musicians."
Andy Hillion, The Brunswick, Brighton & Hove
“ flippin’ awesome” Miles Connolly, The Albert, Stroud
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New Album and Tour "Age of The Idiot" June 2025 stops here in Stroud tonight
Afternoon Irish Session
Enjoy music from the Emerald Isle.
Serving food from opening until 9.30pm
Monthly Folk Session
All welcome, friendly informal gathering inside. Serving food until 9pm
Anna Howie
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Anna Howie is set to captivate audiences in Stroud as part of her highly successful UK tour. Anna and her band will be performing tracks from her new album, Good for Roses
Support tonight comes from Bella C. Collins.
Will Varley
Excited to announce Will Valley back in the Albert.
Will Varley returns with his 7th album, ‘Machines Will Never Learn To Make Mistakes Like Me’, to be released the night before, 30th May, on MNRK Music Group, home to the likes of The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov & Shakey Graves.
To celebrate, Will has . a London headline date at Dalston’s EartH Theatre and ten other shows at the UK’s very best independent venues, and on June the 1st, here at the Albert.
LO HI LO, Pete Greenwood, Big Hair Heavy Rain
Lo-Hi-Lo are making our first album. Come and help us celebrate the launch at one of our very favourite venues!
It's a free event, The Albert will be open as normal. We'll have an excellent support act confirmed very soon.
Serving food until 9.30pm
Friday Night up the Albert
Just a regular night up the best pub at the top of a steep hill just outside Stroud.
Open from 4pm and serving food from then until 9.30. Last orders for drinks 10.50pm
Bank Holiday Monday
Bank Holiday Monday, and just a lovely pub day. Serving food from 1pm until 6pm, last orders for drinks at 6.30pm.
Liz Ikamba
‘Congolese-tilted Afro-Soul-Folk to make your heart soar and your body groove! This is genre-bending and timeless music’
A Bank Holiday delight with Liz and serving food until 8pm. Ticket holders only after 7.30pm
Los Domingos
Los Domingos are back …for a Bank Holiday All Day Sunday stint - all welcome, family friendly and food served from 1pm.
Please note that the pub is open to ticket holders only from 7.30pm for the evenings gig with Liz Ikamba.
Rodborough CAN
We are Rodborough Climate Action Network - a group of people who are working together to personally and collectively face the challenges presented by the Climate & Ecological Emergency.
We share knowledge and skills, we learn from and help each other.
The Other Way
If there is another way – for this inspiringly unique mix of musical voices – then it lies beyond easy categorisation. While elements of jazz, folk and soul coalesce here, The Other Way have a chemistry that’s more than the sum of its parts. Rowan, Emma, Guillame, Billie and Elly return for an intense evening of music.
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Chartist Event
The Chartists were a nineteenth century group of working-class people who campaigned for the vote and for the creation of a more inclusive democracy (‘The People’s Charter with its Six Points).
In May 1839, 5,000 people met on Selsley Common at a Chartist gathering.
The weekend will celebrate that momentum happening in Stroud and the movement that was a very important event ib history.
Monthly Quiz
It’s the month pub quiz, and you probably need to book your table before the night as we do sell out of tables. Maximum 6 t a table, and from this month its £3 per head in. The winning team gets the chance to keep 80% of the hat, or give it to a charity of their choice. Oh ….and set the questions the next month.
Book by calling 01453 755600
BOCI
“Disarmingly fresh and life affirming” - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 music
“Transcendental” - Songlines
The Deadlians
Irish folk songs and punk rock, free entry. A real treat with this awesome Irish outfit taking the festivals by storm
THE BAGELITES
The Bagelites are performing an afternoon gig at our Beer Festival to close the weekend down. It is to raise funds for Stroud Valleys Project, so if you’re free on the day, why not check out them out. Their genre is world music, with an emphasis on Klezmer and Eastern European, with brass, wind, strings and percussion.
Open from midday until 7pm, serving for until 6pm.
Last day of beer festival, free entry.
Abba Trois, Tilly, RAGSTONE, Chasing Dolls
Music today from Abba Trois the premier three vocalist Abba homage band in Stroud ( yeah baby!). Followed by Albert legend, Tilly playing with her band especially developed for our beer festival. Then Ragstone make their Albert debut, although members if the band have played in other troupes over the years Evening brings us from Bristol, Chasing Dolls, a young outfit that lit up the Sub Rooms stage when they supported Pebble Daisy earlier this year.
May Bank Holiday Beer Festival
This year we will be selling tickets for Saturday night for the RAMONAS - early bird tickets available now, who knows for how long, get them now as they will go up in price very soon.
May Morning bash
May Morning - join in the merriment with Boss Morris nether Albert bringing in the May and celebrating Beltane. Ta, coffee, vegan flapjacks and bacon rolls will be served from 5.so plus we are licensed f you fancy a pint, or Tequila Sunrise. All welcome ..pop in on your way to school or work.