Saturday 16th October CANOPY THEATRE, HUNGATE CHURCH, BECCLES
An evening of great acoustic music featuring a triple bill of artists with strong connections to Suffolk.
Two of the UK’s best female singer/songwriters in a great double bill
Odette Michell is an award-winning folk singer/songwriter, guitarist and bouzouki player whose debut album “The Wildest Rose” was released to wide acclaim in 2019, gaining her extensive airplay on BBC radio and international Folk Radio, followed by an extensive tour in spring that year.
She won Female Artist of the Year at the FATEA Awards and was chosen by R2 magazine as Top Pick of the Year for 2020. She has performed alongside Show of Hands and Seth Lakeman and has opened shows for many artists including Reg Meuross and Nancy Kerr.
“One of the standout debuts of 2019” - fRoots
Amy Goddard has a flair for story songs and won FATEA’s Song of the Year award in 2016 for “Down In The Mine.” She designs her own album covers and performs with a hand-crafted guitar that she built herself.
Her voice has been likened to Sandy Denny and Joni Mitchell for its clear, pure sound. Amy’s 2019 album “Always A Dreamer” was rated No. 2 in the critics’ choice “album of the year” in Country Music People magazine – a great achievement for a UK artist.
Amy is currently recording her third album of original material and has used lockdown time for livestreaming shows and painting
“The rarest of singer/songwriters” - Folk Radio UK
https://www.amygoddardmusic.co.uk
Tickets £10 (£9 concessions) from www.theseagull.co.uk
Here is Odette performing“The Great Old Northern Line” and Amy singing “I Will See”
A personal memoir by Adrian May
I first met Mick Graves, along with his wife and musical other half Sarah, in the 1970s. They were a mostly traditional, mostly instrumental duo at Chelmsford Folk Club and I was a songwriter and resident singer at the Blackbirds and Chestnuts clubs in Leyton and Walthamstow. They were one of the first to ask to cover one of my songs, The Old Wood Fire. They seemed a bit serious to me, if likeable and bright – also very good musicians. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Peter Booth, guitarist and humorist, phoned me in Halstead to offer me a gig playing bass with him, Mick and Sarah, who were doing English barn-dances as the Metric Foot Band. I borrowed a bass and an amp. The gig was good and they played well. After a while, Pete and I changed their rather passive on-stage presence to loosening up, having a laugh, posing ironically and actually praising each other’s playing when merited. Mick was always brilliant but shy. Sarah was brilliant too and actually fearless. I loved playing with them. We quickly started doing songs. I remember Pete’s enormous presence, standing posed on his tiny amplifier, like a giant on a transistor radio set and everyone laughing.
Frequently referred to as one of the hardest working bands on the scene, The Shackleton Trio are gaining significant UK and International exposure, becoming an “in demand” name on the folk circuit.
They have been featured on Mark Radcliffe's Radio 2 Folk Show and BBC Radio 4, with 5* reviews, and an appearance on Cambridge Folk Festival's main stage alongside a host of UK and European festivals and international tours.
The East Anglian Traditional Music Trust is putting on three events this Autumn.
