
Friday 8th July 2022
Miriam Jones + Support The Weeping Willows
Quaker Meeting House
British Columbia native Miriam Jones returns to the Green Note in a duo format for her first shows on UK shores since January 2020 to celebrate the launch of her brand new, electric guitar-driven album, Reach For The Morning.
Reach For The Morning, featuring twelve songs of faith, hope and self-revelation, was very much the product of lockdown strictures and was recorded in Miriam’s pop-up home basement studio over the course of 2020 and 2021 with Jones producing and playing all of the instruments bar a handful of percussion overdubs.
Released June 17 Reach For The Morning contains seven brand new self-written tunes plus three covers (a startling reframing of Dylan’s “Lord Protect My Child”, Purcell’s iconic “When I Am Laid In Earth” and Lionel Bart’s “Who Will Buy?”) on top of radical makeovers of two songs of praise from the hymnal canon.
"Maybe it was the lockdowns, the oppressive forces of all kinds bearing down, or maybe it was simply within the natural flow of where I was at in myself, but I sure was hell bent on making this thing. It's been a huge accomplishment personally to me, like slaying a Giant with a sling and 5 smooth stones"
Reviews for Between Green and Gone
“Transfixed by her style …. emotive performances that combine darkness and soul but warmth and accessibility too” – Maverick
“Quiet, restrained and thoughtful piece of work … it’s a very good record” – Independent On Sunday
“Quality coming of age album of melodic story-telling.”
- no depression
Web site https://miriamjones.com/
Live At The Green Note 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=geSCSPf0Hpo
https://www.facebook.com/miriamjones.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ZFg4cZoM1FSaMtL53eXgl?si=N2VsmJ2ARYe4JGhqJM6YTA
https://twitter.com/miriamjones
https://instagram.com/miriamjones
https://miriamjones.bandcamp.com/album/between-green-and-gone
https://miriamjones.com/MiriamJonesMusic
Tickets £13.50 in advance, £18 on the door.
www.miriamjones.com
Miriam Jones + Support The Weeping Willows
Quaker Meeting House
British Columbia native Miriam Jones returns to the Green Note in a duo format for her first shows on UK shores since January 2020 to celebrate the launch of her brand new, electric guitar-driven album, Reach For The Morning.
Reach For The Morning, featuring twelve songs of faith, hope and self-revelation, was very much the product of lockdown strictures and was recorded in Miriam’s pop-up home basement studio over the course of 2020 and 2021 with Jones producing and playing all of the instruments bar a handful of percussion overdubs.
Released June 17 Reach For The Morning contains seven brand new self-written tunes plus three covers (a startling reframing of Dylan’s “Lord Protect My Child”, Purcell’s iconic “When I Am Laid In Earth” and Lionel Bart’s “Who Will Buy?”) on top of radical makeovers of two songs of praise from the hymnal canon.
"Maybe it was the lockdowns, the oppressive forces of all kinds bearing down, or maybe it was simply within the natural flow of where I was at in myself, but I sure was hell bent on making this thing. It's been a huge accomplishment personally to me, like slaying a Giant with a sling and 5 smooth stones"
Reviews for Between Green and Gone
“Transfixed by her style …. emotive performances that combine darkness and soul but warmth and accessibility too” – Maverick
“Quiet, restrained and thoughtful piece of work … it’s a very good record” – Independent On Sunday
“Quality coming of age album of melodic story-telling.”
- no depression
Web site https://miriamjones.com/
Live At The Green Note 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=geSCSPf0Hpo
https://www.facebook.com/miriamjones.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ZFg4cZoM1FSaMtL53eXgl?si=N2VsmJ2ARYe4JGhqJM6YTA
https://twitter.com/miriamjones
https://instagram.com/miriamjones
https://miriamjones.bandcamp.com/album/between-green-and-gone
https://miriamjones.com/MiriamJonesMusic
Tickets £13.50 in advance, £18 on the door.
www.miriamjones.com

Friday 11th November 2022
Thea Gilmore + Support
Holywell Music Room
After the success of her first ever solo tour in 2021, Thea Gilmore is back with an eagerly anticipated new set of live dates in October and November.
A formidable performer on stage, Thea is among the finest singer songwriters of her generation, a frank and fearless pursuer of home truths who has constantly adapted to remain relevant in the fickle, forever changing music industry. And done so on her own terms.
A painful creative and personal rebirth delivered a brace of brilliant albums last year. Although poles apart musically Afterlight, the 18th album of her career, and The Emancipation of Eva Gray, written by Thea’s alter ago and imagined 100 years ago, share the same foundation in their sentiment and subject matter – the end of a toxic relationship – as she explores the female experience through her own story.
Writer Neil Gaiman brilliantly encapsulated the spirit of Afterlight as “an emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper… a post mortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices into yours.”
In the 24 years since the teenage Thea released her first album, Burning Dorothy, she has worked with and won the admiration of Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Martha Wainwright, John Cooper Clarke, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Beth Orton and The Waterboys among many others. Her landmark 2011 album Don’t Stop Singing was a collaboration with the late Sandy Denny and her music featured in the BAFTA-winning film Bait (2019) as well as Blithe Spirit (2020)starring Judi Dench.
Oxford Music and Folk are excited and honoured to be hosting Thea's solo Oxford show, please don't wait to buy tickets as this will sell out. Thea returns to the county of her birth to play the Holywell Music Room for the first time, this is such a fitting venue for Thea in what will be a very special show.
www.theagilmore.net
PRAISE FOR AFTERLIGHT..
“poetically wrought but emotionally direct” - 4* FINANCIAL TMES
"Afterlight is an emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper. It's whatever's left at the end of a relationship, a post mortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices into yours." NEIL GAIMAN
“Thea Gilmore’s painful rebirth in this austere, emotionally full album” – 7/10 UNCUT
“Afterlight, will speak deeply to far too many women, (and men). But with luck it will also give them hope and courage!” - 4* MOJO
“Gilmore pulls off the eternal trick of good music, turning one person’s pain into another’s pleasure” - 5* MAIL ON SUNDAY
“There is an unmistakable strength and resilience in her voice, every word she utters carries the weight of her conviction, it’s quite unlike anything I’ve heard before. Afterlight is surely on of the most anticipated albums of 2021” FOLK RADIO UK
“Long may Afterlight shine” FOLK RADIO UK
Tickets £20 in advance, £25 on the door.
Thea Gilmore + Support
Holywell Music Room
After the success of her first ever solo tour in 2021, Thea Gilmore is back with an eagerly anticipated new set of live dates in October and November.
A formidable performer on stage, Thea is among the finest singer songwriters of her generation, a frank and fearless pursuer of home truths who has constantly adapted to remain relevant in the fickle, forever changing music industry. And done so on her own terms.
A painful creative and personal rebirth delivered a brace of brilliant albums last year. Although poles apart musically Afterlight, the 18th album of her career, and The Emancipation of Eva Gray, written by Thea’s alter ago and imagined 100 years ago, share the same foundation in their sentiment and subject matter – the end of a toxic relationship – as she explores the female experience through her own story.
Writer Neil Gaiman brilliantly encapsulated the spirit of Afterlight as “an emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper… a post mortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices into yours.”
In the 24 years since the teenage Thea released her first album, Burning Dorothy, she has worked with and won the admiration of Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Martha Wainwright, John Cooper Clarke, Billy Bragg, Steve Earle, Beth Orton and The Waterboys among many others. Her landmark 2011 album Don’t Stop Singing was a collaboration with the late Sandy Denny and her music featured in the BAFTA-winning film Bait (2019) as well as Blithe Spirit (2020)starring Judi Dench.
Oxford Music and Folk are excited and honoured to be hosting Thea's solo Oxford show, please don't wait to buy tickets as this will sell out. Thea returns to the county of her birth to play the Holywell Music Room for the first time, this is such a fitting venue for Thea in what will be a very special show.
www.theagilmore.net
PRAISE FOR AFTERLIGHT..
“poetically wrought but emotionally direct” - 4* FINANCIAL TMES
"Afterlight is an emotional rollercoaster in a musical wrapper. It's whatever's left at the end of a relationship, a post mortem with better lyrics, executed by someone who can sing her heart out even as she slices into yours." NEIL GAIMAN
“Thea Gilmore’s painful rebirth in this austere, emotionally full album” – 7/10 UNCUT
“Afterlight, will speak deeply to far too many women, (and men). But with luck it will also give them hope and courage!” - 4* MOJO
“Gilmore pulls off the eternal trick of good music, turning one person’s pain into another’s pleasure” - 5* MAIL ON SUNDAY
“There is an unmistakable strength and resilience in her voice, every word she utters carries the weight of her conviction, it’s quite unlike anything I’ve heard before. Afterlight is surely on of the most anticipated albums of 2021” FOLK RADIO UK
“Long may Afterlight shine” FOLK RADIO UK
Tickets £20 in advance, £25 on the door.

Saturday 10th December 2022
Seth Lakeman + Support
Holywell Music Room.
SETH LAKEMAN
Westcountry folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman released stunning new studio album Make Your Mark in November 2021. Written during his enforced 18 months off the road, the album features 14 powerful, brand-new songs including the singles Higher We Aspire and title track Make Your Mark which were playlisted at BBC Radio 2. Inspiration for the songs on his 11th studio album came from a range of subjects – from the environment to love, death and self-belief. Recorded at Middle Farm Studios in Devon and produced by Seth himself, the album was released on his own label, Honour Oak Records. 2022 sees Seth touring and playing festivals – either with the whole band or performances accompanied just by Plymouth singer-songwriter Alex Hart.Seth Lakeman was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005 for 'Kitty Jay'. It catapulted Lakeman into the forefront of the new British folk movement and his follow up was the gold-selling ‘Freedom Fields’ which was released twice in 2006. Produced by his brother Sean Lakeman it came out on iScream and was then re-released by Relentless (EMI) where it went on to become Seth’s first of 6 UK Top 40 albums.To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Freedom Fields in 2021 Seth played a worldwide online concert stream with his band playing the album (which includes ‘Lady of the Sea’, ‘King and Country’ and ‘White Hare’) and released a Deluxe Edition of the album on CD & Vinyl with bonus tracks and unreleased demos.
Seth returns to play in Oxford after a long break away, this is a solo show and Seth makes his debut at the world famous Holywell Music Room on Saturday December 10th 2022. This multi-instrumentalist multi-talented musician and songwriter is not to be missed. Tickets are limited to just 200 lucky people who can buy a ticket for £20 and experience a unique evening of music in the heart of Oxford. e
Tickets £20 in advance, £26 on the door
Seth Lakeman + Support
Holywell Music Room.
SETH LAKEMAN
Westcountry folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman released stunning new studio album Make Your Mark in November 2021. Written during his enforced 18 months off the road, the album features 14 powerful, brand-new songs including the singles Higher We Aspire and title track Make Your Mark which were playlisted at BBC Radio 2. Inspiration for the songs on his 11th studio album came from a range of subjects – from the environment to love, death and self-belief. Recorded at Middle Farm Studios in Devon and produced by Seth himself, the album was released on his own label, Honour Oak Records. 2022 sees Seth touring and playing festivals – either with the whole band or performances accompanied just by Plymouth singer-songwriter Alex Hart.Seth Lakeman was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005 for 'Kitty Jay'. It catapulted Lakeman into the forefront of the new British folk movement and his follow up was the gold-selling ‘Freedom Fields’ which was released twice in 2006. Produced by his brother Sean Lakeman it came out on iScream and was then re-released by Relentless (EMI) where it went on to become Seth’s first of 6 UK Top 40 albums.To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Freedom Fields in 2021 Seth played a worldwide online concert stream with his band playing the album (which includes ‘Lady of the Sea’, ‘King and Country’ and ‘White Hare’) and released a Deluxe Edition of the album on CD & Vinyl with bonus tracks and unreleased demos.
Seth returns to play in Oxford after a long break away, this is a solo show and Seth makes his debut at the world famous Holywell Music Room on Saturday December 10th 2022. This multi-instrumentalist multi-talented musician and songwriter is not to be missed. Tickets are limited to just 200 lucky people who can buy a ticket for £20 and experience a unique evening of music in the heart of Oxford. e
Tickets £20 in advance, £26 on the door
Holywell Music Rooms, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SD
Doors open at 19.00 – support 19.15 – Main show 20.00 Tickets available on line at www.wegottickets.com |
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