From: Martin Snodin
[martin.snodin_at_homecall_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 27 March 2011 18:21
Subject: Acoustic Sussex
Newsletter 2011-03-27
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Newsletter 27 March 2011 |
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Reminder
of upcoming Chequer Mead shows (+ 1 new date) |
To hear song samples for all upcoming artists, take a listen
to the Playlists on our MySpace website |
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Friday 8 April |
WINNER OF BEST ALBUM 2010 2 FOLK AWARDS |
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Thursday 28 April |
REVERED
AMERICANA SINGER-WRITER |
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Friday 20 May |
SHADES
OF DYLAN AND EARLY ROD STEWART |
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Sunday 19 June |
AN
INTIMATE EVENING WITH GRETCHEN PETERS, SUZY BOGGUSS, & MATRACA BERG |
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Saturday 5 November |
NEW
ADDITION - ON SALE NOW |
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(ORIGINALLY
19 FEBRUARY) at Chequer Mead Support: James Findlay £17.50 ((£15 conc) |
Returning
two years after her last visit to Chequer Mead, Irish songstress Cara
Dillon has that rare talent that you only come across a handful times in
your whole life. Her staggeringly beautiful voice has the ability to reach
inside the soul of a song and imbue material with not only profound sweetness
but also poignancy and depth. Cara
was brought up in the rich cultural heritage of her native Co. Derry. Having
won the All Ireland Traditional Singing Trophy aged only 14 she went on to
sing with Oige, De Dannan and then Equation. It was in this band that she met
her husband and musical collaborator Sam Lakeman. The combination of
Cara's expressive vocals and Lakeman's rippling piano and fresh production
squeezed new life into the music. Their original songs sit happily alongside
the traditional, reinforcing the debt they owe, whilst pointing to a distinct
and distinguished musical identity all of their own. In
2010, she released independently her widely acclaimed 4th album 'Hill Of
Thieves', which won Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk
Awards.
In 2010, a DVD 'Live At The Grand Opera House' was also released, with Cara
performing the album and other selected songs, for one night only in Belfast. Whether
she's singing her native traditional songs of lost love and emigration, or
their original compositions, you will be hard pressed to find a more emotive
and captivating performer. Cara Dillon is at the very top of her field and
one has the feeling she'll be there for a very long time.. "What
may well be the world's most beautiful female voice..." Mojo "Dillon's
crystalline, angelic voice is an instrument of rare beauty capable of melting
the sternest of hearts" BBC "The
Irish, of course, breed prize winning musicians like racehorses, but even
among these Dillon's a wonder - wide-eyed all-Ireland champion? Dillon's
vocals, expressive beyond her years, are right on the money." Q Support for this
show is 2010 BBC Young Folk Award winner, James Findlay |
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Thursday at Chequer Mead Support: £15 (£12.50) |
Mary
Gauthier has an incredible life story. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, given
up at birth by a mother she never knew, Gauthier was adopted by an Italian
Catholic couple in Louisiana. At age 15, she ran away from home, and spent
the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses, and living
with friends. She spent her 18th birthday in a jail cell. Struggling to
deal with being adopted and her sexuality, she used drugs and alcohol. Spurred
on by friends, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy
major, dropping out during her senior year. After attending the Cambridge
School of Culinary Arts, she opened a Cajun restaurant in Boston, which she
ran for eleven years. After achieving sobriety, she was driven to dedicate
herself full-time to songwriting, and embarked upon a career in music. She
wrote her first song at age 35, and has since released seven albums. The
latest, the highly autobiographical The Foundling has received tremendous
reviews. "With
?The Foundling', Mary Gauthier has created her first masterpiece. Not for the
easily frightened, it is the most raw, brave and ultimately satisfying album
I've heard in a very long time. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. " No
Depression Magazine "Not
since Lennon howled "Mother" have there been songs as naked and fraught as
"Mama Here, Mama Gone" and "March 11, 9162?. 5 stars
UNCUT Magazine "With a
voice like a grazed hawk, she sings bluesy Southern Gothic tales?Whatever you
are doing I guarantee you'll stop and listen to every word." 4 Stars
MOJO Magazine "Without
question, The Foundling is one of the most brilliant and heartbreaking pieces
of music you will hear this year or any year." 5 Stars
The Sun Support
for the show is Ben Glover, .and Irish songer-songwriter based mainly
in Nashville, whose debut 2009 album was our 'best of the year' (and his
latest in heading for a similar accolade in 2010). We've been trying to book
a gig with Ben for 3 years, so finally we get to see him play, alongside an
artist who he has worked with in the last year, including co-writing songs. |
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(ORIGINALLY
13 MAY) at Chequer Mead Support: £12.50 (£10 conc) |
Jon
Allen is
a singer-songwriter born in Winchester. His debut album Dead Man's Suit was
released in 2009 on Monologue Records, producing two hit songs - In Your
Light and Going Home, which featured in a worldwide advert for the Land Rover
Freelander 2. His music is evocative of the folk-rock scene of the late 60s/
early 70s and was was first tipped by BBC Sound of 2009. Since moving
to London, Allen has shared the stage with artists such as Emmylou Harris,
Mark Knopfler, KT Tunstall, Seal With
shades of a young Bob Dylan or even Rod Stewart, Jon possesses a soulful,
slightly gravely voice. His song-writing is so beautifully
melodic, many of his songs could have been written at any time in the
last thirty years and already sound like classics. "A
breathtaking debut" Q Magazine "Rootsy?authentic?heartfelt"
Clash Magazine "A young
Rod Stewart" Esquire." "Could be
from Dylan's ?New Morning.' Like Cat Stevens, Nick Drake.." Uncut "A Little
Gem" OK! Magazine "Wow" Maverick
Magazine "When I
heard this mans fantastic voice on the radio I had to zap it with my mobile
to find out who it was" Jools Holland Support
for the show is Fiona Sally Miller, a Brighton-based singer-songwriter |
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Sunday at Chequer Mead £20 (£18.50 conc) |
What
happens when you put three women - three critically acclaimed, award-winning
singer-songwriters, three old friends, three artists with three unique voices
- on a stage together with some guitars and a bottle of good cabernet? You
get Wine, Women & Song. The three women in question are Suzy Bogguss,
Gretchen Peters and Matraca Berg. All
CMA winners, Suzy (Horizon Award), Gretchen (Song of the Year for
"Independence Day") and Matraca (Song of the Year for
"Strawberry Wine") first played a 10 city UK tour together in May
2007 to huge critical and audience acclaim. The three friends have a long
history: Bogguss has co-written with both Berg and Peters, and recorded songs
by both. Since that first sold-out UK tour, the women have been writing and
recording together, and released a special tour-only EP, "The Sewanee
Sessions" for their second UK tour in 2009. Of
the trio, the Nashville Scene's Michael McCall says: "together they
shatter nearly every Nashville stereotype. They're three smart, progressive,
well-balanced women - anti-divas, if you will - who spin real-life tales
steeped in modern love and ripe with wit, depth and spiritual profundity." The
UK's Maverick magazine called the show "pure magic... by no means a
slick, glitzy, polished performance; just three superb singer- songwriters
sitting together informally and having a great time." |
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Saturday Support: Andy Whittle (tbc) £13 (£11 conc) |
Four
years ago, 26 year old Kate Walsh recorded her beautiful debut album in her
producer's bedroom for £500. It became an iTunes sensation, knocking Take
That from the No1 spot. Not bad for an album of delicately fragile and, some
would say, confessional songs. Calling
26-year-old Kate a singer songwriter is like saying Van Gogh was a
cartoonist. Kate is, er, different. She adores Debussy, studies cello,
listens constantly to Classic FM (and little else) and bemoans the demise of
vinyl and CDs. She's entertainingly scathing about the conventional music
industry ("it's fickle, selfish, impersonal and backstabbing") - and has
established her own cottage industry to do it her way. And when she sits down
to write a song you'd better lock up your hearts for you instantly become
Kate's close personal confidante as she bares her soul with shocking candour.
Listening
to the very real pain and fragility of her music you imagine the author must
be a quivering wreck permanently teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Far from it - chattering away ten to the dozen like she's known you all her
life, Kate Walsh is warm, funny and likeably self-deprecating, fully
recognising the self-indulgent nature of the confessional songwriter's art.
And art this truly is. |
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Don't forget that as
well as our own shows, the Acoustic Sussex website has a Regional Gig Guide and links to venues and clubs
in the South East that offer folk, roots and acoustic music. |
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More
information can be found on our website: www.acousticsussex.org.uk. You can also find
us on MySpace (with Playlists of tracks from upcoming artists) at: www.myspace.com/acousticsussex. If
you know anyone who you think may enjoy our events, please forward this email
to them. |
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