The last few months have been really busy – Becky Mills and me have been out on the road playing our guitars and singing a bit all over the UK. What fun we have had! We have performed in some fabulous places, met lots of wonderful people and caught up with loads of dear friends. Huge thanks to everybody who came along and heard us play, bought the CD, helped us with our gear, supplied us with sherry, fed us, put us on and put us up! You are all lovely.

We were lucky enough to have been joined on stage at a few of the shows by the amazing Finn McArdle (percussion) and Jonny Short (double bass). Here we are at Bristol Folk Festival doing a completely unplugged session in the temporarily relocated ‘shed’ for songsfromtheshed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNLsH-wq860

Here’s our dates for the rest of the year – bit more festivalling in June, July and August, and then in September, we are once again heading North for the very wonderful Lanark Music Connections Festival followed by a quick foray further North up to Glenross and Cromarty. Home again for Otley Folk Festival at the end of September.

I’m doing a few bits and bats solo (whilst Rebecca decorates her new house…), including a couple of dates opening for the very lovely Boo Hewerdine. Come! He’s ace. www.boohewerdine.net

We’re currently putting together another big UK tour for Spring 2013. Lots of dates in already and more going in every day. We will post updates later this year.

Also, for those of you in Yorkshire, ex Waking the Witch member Rachel Goodwin is making a rare solo appearance at Grassington Festival on Friday 15^th June as special guest of The South (Alison Wheeler and Dave Hemingway from the Beautiful South) www.thesouth.co.uk. Here’s a link to Rach’s Myspace site – www.myspace.com/rachelgoodwinsongs

June

Fri 15^th June – Chepstow Acoustic Music Club (Pats solo) www.chepstowacousticmusicclub.com

Thurs 21^st June – Grassington Fringe Festival, Appletreewick, Craven Arms (Pats & Bex) www.grassington-festival.org.uk/fringe.cfm

Sat 23^rd June – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club, (Pats solo) supporting State of the Union (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams)

July

Sat 7^th July – Heptonstall Festival, West Yorks (Pats & Bex)

August

Wed 8^th August – Fringe Festival, North Berwick (Pats & Bex)

Fri 17th August – Feva Festival, Knaresborough, Henshaw Arts Centre www.henshaws.org.uk/arts-and-crafts-centre (Pats & Bex)

Thurs 30^th August – Leeds, Chapel Allerton Arts Festival @ Seven Arts (Pats solo) www.chapelallerton.org.uk

September

Sat 1^st Sept – Lanark Connections Festival (Pats & Bex)

Fri 14^th Sept – Kinross, The Green Hotel www.mundellmusic.com (Pats & Bex)

Sat 15^th Sept – Cromarty, The Old Brewey www.cromarty-training.com/HTMLFiles/diary.html (Pats & Bex)

Fri 21^st-Sun 23^rd Sept – Otley Folk Festival www.otleyfolkfestival.com (Pats & Bex)

October

Sat 13^th Oct – Ormskirk, Edgehill, Rose Theatre www.edgehill.ac.uk/rosetheatre (Pats & Bex)

November

Sat 3^rd Nov – Otley, Korks (solo) supporting Boo Hewerdine

Finally, ‘Stories of Angels & Guitars’ is still available for those of you who haven’t bought it yet!

‘There’s an overcrowded market in the UK of female singer-songwriter-guitarists, but Patsy Matheson stands out for the quality of her singing and more importantly, her songwriting…her best songs are thoughtful, delicate and impressively original’ – Robin Denselow, The Guardian

And the Telegraph:

‘There is something of a light-voiced female John Martyn about Patsy Matheson’s singing on So The Same, an impressive and original track on her new album Stories of Angels & Guitars… her sensitive lyrics and strong singing just click.’ – Martin Chilton, The Telegraph

Full versions of these and other reviews are on the website at:

http://www.patsymatheson.co.uk/reviews.php

The album can be purchased either CD or download version from Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Angels-Guitars-Patsy-Matheson/dp/B006BJ5THI

Facebook & Twitter

Finally, just a reminder that you can keep up to date with our news at www.beckymills.co.uk or www.patsymatheson.co.uk or you can find us on Facebook, or follow on Twitter!

Please do forward this newsletter on to anyone who you think would be interested!!

We hope to catch you at a gig soon.

Best wishes,

Patsy & Bex

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Power Plays w/c 9 December 2024

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Featured Albums w/c 9 December 2024

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