Folk Club

Saturday November 23rd, 7.30 pm., doors open 7.00 pm.

Tiddy Hall, Shipton Road, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, OX7 6AG
Tickets : £16.00 in advance £18.00 on the door available from:

01993 831427, www.wegottickets.com/wychwoodfolkclub, [email protected], www.wychwoodfolkclub.com

Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters….and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.

He is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning 30 years, 32 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances.

Compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer, Bruce Cockburn and Dave Matthews, he has created his own style and reputation as a mesmerising live performer and stands in his own right, built on a reputation for giving what thousands have described as the best live music experience of their lives. A unique talent driven by passion, social awareness and love for his trade, he’s a jaw dropping guitar player who has developed a unique percussive style, teamed up with a powerful show stopping voice, and has been called “The Welsh Springsteen”

In addition to his 5 top 50 UK hits, the importance of his work has been recognised by programmes such as BBC Radio 2’s prime time series on Singer/Songwriters. Social justice has an essential presence throughout his music, which has been recognised with various humanitarian awards and plaudits.

Stunning, heartfelt music

Bob Harris BBC Radio 2

Intelligent and enlightened songs are both energising and provocative…from subtle tenderness to growly indignation. A Welsh national treasure

MOJO

A superb album, open yet textured; complex yet immediately listenable: insightful and often hard hitting

R2

heartfelt and ultimately optimistic songs

Songlines

One of the most charismatic and electrifying performers in Britain today…tough and passionate

Tom Robinson BBC 6 music

Saturday November 9th, 7.30 pm., doors open 7.00 pm.

Tiddy Hall, Shipton Road, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, OX7 6AG
Tickets : £12.00 in advance £14.00 on the door available from:

01993 831427, www.wegottickets.com/wychwoodfolkclub, [email protected], www.wychwoodfolkclub.com

Chris Cleverley Trio

Award winning Songwriter and guitarist Chris Cleverley is renowned for his ability to draw audiences to the edge of their seats with hauntingly delivered tales of ghost women, lonesome clock towers, lovelorn mariners and hospital beds.

Chris has crafted a reputation as a songwriter of singular ability with characteristic original and traditional material that has resonated deeply with audiences up and down the UK. His unique brd of contemporary folk contrasts the calming, pastoral influence of a childhood spent roaming the foothills of the Brecon Beacons and Cornish coastlines, with the anxious frenzy of an urban mind shaped by 29 years in the UK’s bustling second city.

The Sublime guitar playing of Chris Cleverley; One of the highlights of this year’s festival

Stroud Folk Festival

Lovely singing and guitar playing

Martin Simpson

Saturday September 7th, 7.30 pm., doors open 7.00 pm.

Tiddy Hall, Shipton Road, Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, OX7 6AG
Tickets : £12.00 in advance £14.00 on the door available from:

01993 831427, www.wegottickets.com/wychwoodfolkclub, [email protected], www.wychwoodfolkclub.com

Luke Jackson

Luke Jackson is a Singer-Songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and The Young Folk Category. He was also winner of Fatea’s “Male Artist of the Year 2014” and 2016 and his live album ‘Solo:Duo:Trio’ was voted 2018 Album of the Year by Laurel Canyon.

Over the past few years he has steadily developed a reputation for himself in the Folk, Roots, Americana & Acoustic circuits, either through his solo shows, many festival appearances or when opening for such luminaries as Fairport Convention, Show of Hands, Steve Knightley, Martyn Joseph, Seth Lakeman, Karine Polwart, Oysterband, Paul Brady, Glen Tilbrook and Sarah Jarosz .

As well as playing solo, Luke also performs as a Duo or Trio. In addition to the UK, he regularly tours across Europe playing in France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. In 2016 and 2017 he visited the USA to play at the International Folk Alliance conference in Kansas and again in early 2019 when the conference was held in Ontario, Canada. Luke has completed several joint headline tours with Grammy Award winning songwriter Amy Wadge, with Folk Award winning duo Greg Russel and Ciaran Algar and American singer-songwriter Rebecca Loebe.

Already in 2019 Luke has been back to the Folk Alliance Conference held in Canada, performed a select run of dates with Amy Wadge, had solo, duo and trio shows and has a co write song ‘Lake Louise’ released on Rebecca Loebe’s 2019 album ‘Give Up Your Ghosts’.

Luke remains an ever present in the live music scene, gigging relentlessly all over the United Kingdom and Europe, with plans for his first tour of the USA later this year.

 What They Say

Every so often a new voice emerges, one so stunning that it knocks you sideways. Jackson has been compared to a young Richard Thompson and for once these are not empty words

Acoustic Magazine

Jackson is one of the most dynamic and exciting live performers of his generation

Folk Radio UK

Luke Jackson sings with an extraordinarily rich voice and possesses a guitar technique astonishing for one so young. I first heard him sing four years ago and even then his songwriting suggested a performer of rare promise

Steve Knightley, Show of Hands

The Mad Marston Hares

The Mad Marston Hares are a expressive acoustic trio (fiddle, guitar/banjo, and vocal/cajon) who play songs and tunes from America, Scotland and Ireland. From bluegrass to ballads, old time Appalachian to Western swing. They have performed at the Rabbit Hole Festival, the Unicorn Folk Club, the Oxford Folk Club, and the Oxford folk weekend.

Mellow and moving

Oxford Daily Info 7/2018