25/06/2012

Jez Lowe - Radio ballads and tour dates

Jez Lowe celebrates his involvement in the BBC 2012 Olympic Radio Ballads with a workshop/performance featuring some of the fifteen songs he's written for the new series, plus a selection from the twenty he wrote for the 2006 and 2010 programmes, at Towersey and Ely festivals this summer. It will be the first time Jez himself has had the chance to perform many of these songs, most of which have been sung by other "cast-members" in the broadcasts. He's also considering putting together a new album devoted to his Radio Ballads songs, with a possible tour centred around them, sometime next year. Meanwhile, he's out and about extensively, both solo and with The Bad Pennies, across the UK for the rest of 2012, with a month-long solo tour of North America scheduled for October.

Dates coming up before then -
JULY
5 - Beamish Mary, No Place, Stanley, Co. Durham DH9 0HQ
9 - Croydon Folk Club, Ruskin House, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1BD
12 - Town Hall, Crail Fyfe KY10 3DL
13 - Ely Folk Festival with the Big Bad Pennies
14 - Bromsgrove Festival with the Big Bad Pennies
19 - Spread Eagle, Lymm Cheshire WA13 0AG -
20 - The Castle, Castle Way, Wellingborough, NN8 1XA*
28 - Kendal, Cumbria TBC

AUGUST
11/12 - Saltburn Festival, Cleveland.
17 - Tegeingl Festival, Mold, Flintshire
18 - Village Hall, Alstonefield, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, DE6 2FR
19/20 - Whitby Festival, N. Yorks
21 - Whitby Festival, N Yorks
25 - Towersey Festival, Oxon
331 - Fylde Festival, Fleetwood, Lancs.

SEPTEMBER
1 - Sedgefield Festival, Co. Durham
6 - Nitten Folk, Dean Tavern, Newtongrange, EH22 4NA
8 - The Hind, Cramlington, Northumberland NE23 6DT
9 - Village Hall, Green Hammerton N Yorks YO 26 8BN
14 - Village Hall, Moorsholm N. Yorks TS12 3JS
15 - Wortley Folk, The Venue, Stocksbridge S36 1DY
16 - La Porte Noire Rue des Alexiens, 67, 1000 Brussels Belgium
21 - Corstorphine Trust, Edinburgh EH12 7SX
22 - Browfoot Room, Ulpha, Cumbria LA20 6 DX
30 - Helmsley Arts Centre Folk Weekend, N Yorks YO62 5DW

www.jezlowe.com/