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Sunday Sessions: The Awesome Dawson Band

Sunday 1 November 2026, 15:00

The Donkey · 203 Welford Road, LE2 6BH, Leicester

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Dawson Smith is well known on the UK Blues / Americana scene as the high energy singer / songwriter / frontman of The Dissenters and as a highly regarded songwriter with five critically acclaimed, all

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