This is Bath -- Bath's Chapel Arts Centre has, in recent years, developed a fine reputation for delivering diverse and dramatic musical acts in Bath, covering a variety of genres. As it gears up for a typically eclectic new spring season, we take a look at some of the acts you should be booking tickets for now. Songwriter, vocalist and piano man Andy Fleet blends rock, blues, folk and jazz into a rich bittersweet sound and takes his influences from Tom Waits, Allen Toussaint, Joe Jackson, Randy Newman, John Lennon, Richard Thompson and Lindsey Buckingham. His debut album The Night Falls Fast (2009) was a collection of ten beautifully crafted songs that told tales of friendship, loss, nocturnal infatuation and recounted long nights playing lounge piano. At its heart, the album featured the deeply affecting Fifty Four Candles. Takin' Aim is the follow up and was recorded during 2012 with his quartet featuring trumpeter Andre Canniere, with Rob Rickenberg on bass and Joe Evans on drums. It's a big, dark luscious-sounding record from the horns-laden New Orleans vibe of the opening track Who's Gonna Be Sorry to the celebration of old friends and good times in Get The Boys Round to the cinematic ode to the port of Hamburg in The Beast. Andy Fleet will be performing at Bath's Chapel Arts Centre on Saturday, January 25, where he will be joined on stage by his regular quartet, with the addition of Chez Taylor on tenor sax. Tickets cost £8. Exposed to music at a very early age, Dublin born Eleanor McEvoy grew up in a strict Catholic household in the grey north-side suburb of Cabra. After a musical upbringing playing the piano, violin and performing on stage with her older siblings, Eleanor graduated in music from Trinity in Dublin and set out to pay her way through life as a jobbing musician. She initially spent four years in Ireland's National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), and joined Irish diva Mary Black's touring band. She has recorded a number of acclaimed albums including Snapshots (1999), Yola (2001), Market Square (2003), Early Hours (2004), Out There (2006), Love Must Be Tough (2007), I'd Rather Go Blonde (2010) and Alone (2011) before If You Leave... her tenth album released last May. It features eight new songs and four interpretations including God Only Knows, True Colors, and Lift The Wings from Riverdance. Recorded live in the studio with some of Ireland's finest players, this album of soulful performances shows McEvoy in a bluesier neo-retro style. The overall feel is retro. Said McEvoy, "I'd been listening to a lot of '60s albums, Stones, Beatles, Beach Boys stuff like that, and it was with the spirit of those albums in my musical soul that I entered the studio." She visits the Chapel Arts on Friday, January 31. Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in traditional folk music today. After four ground-breaking and award-winning albums – 2003's BBC Radio2 Folk Album of Year, Sweet England, Jim Moray in 2006, Roots Critics Poll and Mojo Folk Album of the Year winner Low Culture in 2008 and 2010's In Modern History – he now finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians. His imaginative re-imagining of English traditional music blended with orchestral flourishes, guitars and electronics soon found him saw him gracing stages at Glastonbury and WOMAD. Now he comes bearing Skulk (2012), his fifth and perhaps best album yet, with the wherewithal to locate folk music in its rightful landscape: the modern world. Catch him when visits Bath's Chapel Arts Centre on Saturday, February 1. Other acts to look out for include: Cocos Lovers plus, Gerard & the Watchmen plus Hot Feet (Sunday, February 2), Kent DuChaine & Leadbessie (Friday, February 7), The Zen Hussies (Friday, February 14), Franc Cinelli (Saturday, February 15), Caddy Cooper (Thursday, February 20), Duncan Chisholm (Saturday, March 1) and Emily Maguire (Friday, March 7).
Reported by This is 14 hours ago.
This is Bath -- Bath's Chapel Arts Centre has, in recent years, developed a fine reputation for delivering diverse and dramatic musical acts in Bath, covering a variety of genres. As it gears up for a typically eclectic new spring season, we take a look at some of the acts you should be booking tickets for now. Songwriter, vocalist and piano man Andy Fleet blends rock, blues, folk and jazz into a rich bittersweet sound and takes his influences from Tom Waits, Allen Toussaint, Joe Jackson, Randy Newman, John Lennon, Richard Thompson and Lindsey Buckingham. His debut album The Night Falls Fast (2009) was a collection of ten beautifully crafted songs that told tales of friendship, loss, nocturnal infatuation and recounted long nights playing lounge piano. At its heart, the album featured the deeply affecting Fifty Four Candles. Takin' Aim is the follow up and was recorded during 2012 with his quartet featuring trumpeter Andre Canniere, with Rob Rickenberg on bass and Joe Evans on drums. It's a big, dark luscious-sounding record from the horns-laden New Orleans vibe of the opening track Who's Gonna Be Sorry to the celebration of old friends and good times in Get The Boys Round to the cinematic ode to the port of Hamburg in The Beast. Andy Fleet will be performing at Bath's Chapel Arts Centre on Saturday, January 25, where he will be joined on stage by his regular quartet, with the addition of Chez Taylor on tenor sax. Tickets cost £8. Exposed to music at a very early age, Dublin born Eleanor McEvoy grew up in a strict Catholic household in the grey north-side suburb of Cabra. After a musical upbringing playing the piano, violin and performing on stage with her older siblings, Eleanor graduated in music from Trinity in Dublin and set out to pay her way through life as a jobbing musician. She initially spent four years in Ireland's National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), and joined Irish diva Mary Black's touring band. She has recorded a number of acclaimed albums including Snapshots (1999), Yola (2001), Market Square (2003), Early Hours (2004), Out There (2006), Love Must Be Tough (2007), I'd Rather Go Blonde (2010) and Alone (2011) before If You Leave... her tenth album released last May. It features eight new songs and four interpretations including God Only Knows, True Colors, and Lift The Wings from Riverdance. Recorded live in the studio with some of Ireland's finest players, this album of soulful performances shows McEvoy in a bluesier neo-retro style. The overall feel is retro. Said McEvoy, "I'd been listening to a lot of '60s albums, Stones, Beatles, Beach Boys stuff like that, and it was with the spirit of those albums in my musical soul that I entered the studio." She visits the Chapel Arts on Friday, January 31. Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in traditional folk music today. After four ground-breaking and award-winning albums – 2003's BBC Radio2 Folk Album of Year, Sweet England, Jim Moray in 2006, Roots Critics Poll and Mojo Folk Album of the Year winner Low Culture in 2008 and 2010's In Modern History – he now finds himself at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians. His imaginative re-imagining of English traditional music blended with orchestral flourishes, guitars and electronics soon found him saw him gracing stages at Glastonbury and WOMAD. Now he comes bearing Skulk (2012), his fifth and perhaps best album yet, with the wherewithal to locate folk music in its rightful landscape: the modern world. Catch him when visits Bath's Chapel Arts Centre on Saturday, February 1. Other acts to look out for include: Cocos Lovers plus, Gerard & the Watchmen plus Hot Feet (Sunday, February 2), Kent DuChaine & Leadbessie (Friday, February 7), The Zen Hussies (Friday, February 14), Franc Cinelli (Saturday, February 15), Caddy Cooper (Thursday, February 20), Duncan Chisholm (Saturday, March 1) and Emily Maguire (Friday, March 7).
Reported by This is 14 hours ago.