Another instalment in the New Routes series, an evening of acoustic, folk and roots artists.

Set out cabaret style with candles on tables, it’s a comfortable and intimate space to listen to the best emerging and established artists from the area.

Featuring…

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson

Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from Norwich. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.

They have enjoyed touring extensively in the UK and Europe; including a twenty three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union Chapel and St David’s Hall Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium, France and Ireland. They have written and self-released four albums, composed music for a BBC Radio 4 documentary series and have had over a million streams on Spotify.

‘A milestone for contemporary folk songwriting’ – Bright Young Folk
‘A bright, lively collection of songs that plays so sweetly it evokes the sensation of a summer folk festival’ – The Guardian
‘Perfectly matched harmonies…at times it’s hard to tell them apart, you could be listening to a single voice’ – Folk Radio Uk
‘Gorgeous harmonies and lush melodies…a beautiful album that transports the listener to wild landscapes and wild lives’ – BBC Countryfile
‘Alden’s voice is hauntingly beautiful’ – Folk London
‘Alex would give even the great Swarbrick himself a run for his money in terms of sheer feeling and passion’ – At The Barrier

Imlac

Imlac is a talented Scottish singer-songwriter who plays roots inspired indie/folk. A forward looking musician and story teller, he channels the passion and energy from the likes of Neil Young and Van Morrison with his own melodic and unique modern songwriting style. He plays mesmerising shows, both as a solo performer and in a full band line up. Solo, his shows are intimate, heart wrenching and passionate while with the full band, he explores an edgier territory similar to Crazy Horse or Jeff Buckley.

Receiving praise and multiple plays from the likes of Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6, performing a Christmas special for BBC 1, winning Best Artist (folk) award two years running at the NMG Awards and played Cambridge Folk Festival two years running, Imlac’s star is rising rapidly as he becomes more and more well known on the indie folk circuit for his stunningly beautiful offerings. Imlac writes songs of quiet desperation, for ordinary people stuck in dead-end jobs, relationships that pull and tear, and for those with dreams bulging against the cabled cage of modern urban repetition.

Stage Times
7.30 Doors
8.00 TBC
8.30 Interval
8.45 Imlac
9.30 Interval
9.45 Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
10.30 Finish

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