Thursday 12th November
Martin Simpson
£15 / £18 (+10% Booking fee)
Doors open 8pm
Seated Show
There is no doubt that after 35 years as a professional musician Martin is, right now, better than ever.
Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving.
Martin has been nominated an astounding 27 times in the fourteen years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards more than any other performer with 9 consecutive years as nominee for Musician of The Year, which he has won twice. 2008 saw an incredible 5 nominations for “Prodigal Son’ and 2 wins, whilst in 2010 he had an unprecedented 6 nominations for his CD, “True Stories” and a win for Best Traditional Track, “Sir Patrick Spens”.
2012’s nominations for Martin include, Best Album for ‘Purpose & Grace”, Best Traditional Track for “The Lakes Of Ponchartrain” and Best Musician. In 2014 his album, ‘Vagrant Stanzas’ was nominated for Album Of The Year, but it was a member of The Full English that he collectively took home awards that year, for Best Group and Album Of The Year.
2015 sees him working in a new trio with the wonderful Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr and on new material for a solo album, to be recorded in 2016.
Bookings are not currently available for this event.