Thursday 21st April
Diana Jones
£12/£14 [+ 10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm
Diana Jones is one of the most mesmerizing live performers on stage today.
Jones’ backstory which is well known to her fans, is as full of intricate connections as her narratives.
The almost mystical connection she felt to rural Southern music while growing up in suburban New York, which led to the reunion at twenty-three with her birth family in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Her grandfather, Robert Lee Maranvville, a singer in the old time tradition, helped Jones make sense of her own distinctive voice and love of the storytelling genre. A lone pilgrimage to a cabin after her grandfather’s death produced the songs that became her debut release. My Remembrance of You (2006), earned Diana two International Folk Alliance Award nominations, folk festival, radio and television appearances and cuts by Gretchen Peters and Joan Baez. Bob Harris introduced Jones to UK audiences on BBC2 Radio which led to her first UK and EU tours and support for Richard Thompson.
Folk America on BBC Four with Seasick Steve, and Songwriter’s Circle on BBC Four with Steve Earle and Tom Morello, firmly established her reputation as a respected artist in the Folk/Americana music world. Diana’s last release, Museum of Appalachia Recordings (2013) brought the music back to the family roots. Recorded in a cabin at the Smithsonian sanctioned museum, the record received wide acclaim and led to an International Radio Award for her interview with ABC Australia’s Robyn Ravlich, tours of Europe, the U.K., Ireland and the United States.
Diana splits her time between Nashville and New York City and looks forward to setting foot on the next concert stage in support of her new release DIANA JONES LIVE IN CONCERT.
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