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John Hegley is wearing a blue suit and light blue shirt with small polka dots. He is holding up a ukelele towards the camera with one hand whilst peering through the space in its tuning pegs with one eye closed.
Suzi Corker
Sun 14 Jun 2026
John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes
Leeds LitFest
Gigs
Literature
Music
Spoken Word

John will perform poems and songs from across his back-catalogue, alongside new pieces, focussing on his educational work and storytelling. Mandolin accompaniment is now expanded to include a Portuguese cavaquinho and a train whistle from Didcot Railway Centre. In places the audience will be invited to participate, emotionally.

The Observer commented 'Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils' - although there is more about Keats than Wordsworth in the show. There is much about family and foolhardiness in an evening designed for adults, but not unsuitable for the odd nine-year-old.

27-29 Headingley Lane
Leeds
LS6 1BL
United Kingdom

53.8161773, -1.5666079

    Date
    Sun 14 Jun 2026
    19:15 - 21:15

    Ticket price

    £12.00
    £12.00
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