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Bob Sumner + Sarah Jane Scouten | Auditorium
20:00 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:30
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Wed 17 Jun
Bob Sumner + Sarah Jane Scouten | Auditorium
20:00 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:30
£16.00
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Bert Jansch is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential guitarists of all time — a Glasgow-born musician whose complex synthesis of American blues, traditional English folk song, and jazz created a revolutionary fingerstyle language that left its mark on everyone from Jimmy Page to Neil Young to Nick Drake. This evening brings together four artists who carry that tradition in their bones, each finding their own way into Jansch's extraordinary world of songs.
Sam Grassie is a rising fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter whose debut album Where Two Hawks Fly (Broadside Hacks Records) has drawn praise from The Guardian, Mojo, UNCUT and The Quietus, and earned airplay across BBC Radio 2, 3 and 6 Music. A Bert Jansch Foundation associate artist, Sam performed alongside Robert Plant and Jacqui McShee at the Royal Festival Hall's tribute to Jansch — making him a natural steward for this music.
Mataio Austin Dean is an artist, musician, poet and activist from Portsmouth, best known as a member of Shovel Dance Collective — a group who have reinvigorated English folk song by dragging it into urgent conversation with politics, identity and the present day. He brings centuries-old folksongs and child ballads to life with a deep and warm voice that commands silence and the full attention of your ears.
Alfie Jones is the grandson of the late, great Wizz Jones — one of the most revered fingerstyle guitarists of the British folk revival and a direct peer of Jansch on the London and Edinburgh folk club circuit. Growing up with that music in his life gives Alfie a connection to this world that no amount of listening or study can replicate.
Ula Taylor-Reilly is a singer and folk researcher who performs traditional English folksong interpreted through a radical, decolonial, feminist lens, discussing her research on the songs as part of the performance.
Over the course of the evening, the four artists bring their own distinct sensibilities to Jansch's catalogue — from his early solo recordings and collaborations with Anne Briggs, to the jazz-inflected adventurism of Pentangle — music that has never stopped resonating.
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