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Jez Lowe in Concert

Sat, 23 Sept

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Upstairs@TheGather

A double nomination in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards – for best singer and best new song – was a timely reminder of Jez Lowe’s standing in the UK folk and acoustic music scene. Not only he is one of the busiest live performers in the country, but his songs among the most widely sung by other performers

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Jez Lowe in Concert
Jez Lowe in Concert

Time & Location

23 Sept 2023, 19:00 – 24 Sept 2023, 19:00

Upstairs@TheGather, Ennerdale Bridge, Cleator CA23, UK

About the Event

Jez Lowe has long been one of the UK’s busiest folk performers, playing for audiences the world over, either solo, (with guitar, cittern and harmonica accompaniment), or with his band The Bad Pennies. His Men At Words tour of North America saw Jez joining forces with James Keelaghan and Archie Fisher for much-acclaimed concerts across Canada and the USA. And as part of The Pitmen Poets (with Bob Fox, Benny Graham and Billy Mitchell), Jez has helped to rekindle the fire in the tradition of mining songs and culture of his native region in a series of sell out theatre performances around the UK.

Over the last couple of decades, the likes of Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, The Unthanks, Wizz Jones, The McCalmans, Mary Black, The Duhks, Bob Fox, The Young Uns, Enda Kenny, Cherish The Ladies, Tom McConville, The Clancys and scores more, have queued up to adopt his songs for their own repertoires. No wonder no less than Richard Thompson has called him “The best singer songwriter to come out of the UK for a long time”, and personally invited him to play at Thompson’s Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank Centre in 2010.

Jez Lowe’s contributions to the on-going BBC Radio series The Radio Ballads has cemented this reputation, with a Sony Radio Award among the many accolades coming its way. The project culminated in a live BBC Radio 2 broadcast In November 2018 to commemorate The Great War Centenary that featured Jez alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and narrator Michael Morpurgo.

As BBC Radio DJ Mike Harding said recently, “No-one else writes or sounds like Jez Lowe”, and chances are, even if you’ve never heard the man himself, you’ll have heard his songs, sung at festivals, club-gigs, open-mikes or on CD, by the great and good, the professional and the enthusiast, the young and not-so-young. What higher accolade could a songwriter hope for?

https://www.jezlowe.com

https://www.facebook.com/jez.lowe1

‘Jez Lowe is one of our finest songwriters.’ BBC Radio 2

Twitter @LoweJez

Tickets

  • Live Upstairs@TheGather

    Why not order a pre-event Pie, Peas and a Pint (or wine)

    £15.00
    +£0.38 service fee
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  • Live Stream

    Allows you to watch the gig on any comparable device and to go revisit the recording afterwards

    £15.00
    +£0.38 service fee
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