IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EWAN MacCOLL……and what hugely influential footsteps they are.
In the 50s and 60s Ewan MacColl along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home Service covering a variety of subjects and using an audio documentary format to highlight the experiences of real people weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about their recorded interviews, the first time regional accents had been heard on BBC Radio!
There were eight original programmes and they were masterpieces of radio producing many songs that have since become folk classics.
Almost half a century later, in 2006, a new set of Radio Ballads were commissioned by BBC Radio 2 using the same format but this time involving a whole team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene under the guiding hands and watchful eyes of producer John Leonard and musical director John Tams.
Now three members of that team, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews, have put together a selection of songs from the 2006 new Radio Ballads for a concert performance IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EWAN MacCOLL.
All three are consummate engaging performers of meaningful songs and stories and are multi-instrumentalists whose skills have been honed by decades of live touring throughout UK, Europe, Canada, U.S.A, Australia and New Zealand. They have all recorded extensively, worked in collaboration with many of the top folk roots artists and bands as well as having highly successful solo careers and are well loved and respected by audiences and colleagues alike.
Expect to be entertained and enlightened by songs of joy, love, hardship and humour.
Important Information
Venue: Stamford Arts Centre, Ballroom
Price: £18 (£16)
Running time: 2hrs 15 minutes (including interval)
Fri 17 May
Janacek, Bizet, Szymanowski and more! The perfect opportunity to get to know Sta...
Thurs 13 Jun
Part of our Music In Quiet Places season. “A powerful and focused performance”...
Fri 17 May
An evening of great chamber music including Janáček’s “Pohádka for Cello and Pia...
Fri 14 Jun
LYR are Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, singer-songwriter Richard Walters, and multi-instrumentalist/producer Pa...
Fri 10 May
Sam Braysher is an east London-based jazz saxophonist who has won plaudits for h...
Thurs 16 May
An evening of Telemann, Mozart, Smetana and more. Stamford International Music F...
Thurs 30 May
Part of our Music In Quiet Places season. Join The Chapel Hill Duo on a journey...
Fri 3 May
Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Dean Friedman has achieve...