E-Newsletter Archive

9 January 2023

 

G-Live Gala Concert on 4 January
 
It was an honour to join Paul Jones, Jools Holland, Madeleine Bell, Paddy Milner and a host of other superbly talented musicians at G-Live Concert Hall the other night to support The Prostate Project

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7 December 2022

 

REMEMBERING RAB NOAKES
 
On Thursday 15th December 2022, we're honouring our friend Rab Noakes at Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club in Scotland. Rab, a longtime friend of the club, was booked to play there on December 15th. After his passing…

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7 November 2022

 

FIRST USA GIGS SINCE MARCH 2020!
 
I'm back to the USA to sing and play for the first time since March 2020. I'm really pleased to be back in the part of the world where it all began for me.…

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10 October 2022

 

OCTOBER & BEYOND!
 
There's a bountiful variety of music on-hand for this month. My head's already spinning from the sheer delight of it all.
 

 
This is just October...
 

 
14th SoundBox, Chester, Cheshire (Brooks & Dan Walsh) 
 
21st Village Hall

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26 September 2022

 

WRITING RECORDING GIGGING!
 
In the height of those dark lockdown days I made a promise to myself: if we get outta of here I'm gonna dive headlong into my musical collaborations and see what kind of music we can make

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22 August 2022

 

FORTUNE BY DESIGN!
 
Encourage by so many people who saw our split-screen performance of "Columbus Stockade Blues" way back in 2020, Dan Walsh and I formed a duo. Over the past year we've done a handful of gigs, got ourselves

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3 August 2022

 

BROADSTAIRS!
 
Dan Walsh and I are debuting our new duo at Broadstairs Folk Week on Sunday, 7th August. We are so excited to bring our new music to one of our favourite festivals (we've both done it before wearing different

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12th July 2022

 

SUMMER FEAST!
 
This week I get to partake in a feast of music. There are two gigs with Dan Walsh, one with Ran Noakes and one with Aaron Catlow. I feel very blessed to get to play music and hang

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7 June 2022

 

GIG CHANGE ANNOUNCED
 
Due to circumstances beyond my control, this Sunday's concert at Folk On The Moor in Devon will now be a solo gig rather than a gig with Boo Hewerdine as he has a scheduling conflict. I will…

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25 May 2022

 

CONCERTS & GIGS!
 
May
 
26th Honeysuckle Inn, Ramsgate, Kent 
 
(Brooks solo! CT11 8AA)
 
27th Bingham Folk Club, Bingham, Nottinghamshire (Brooks solo! NG13 8TN)
 
28th Private Party, Surrey
 
June
 
4th Village Hall, Alstonefield, Derbyshire (Brooks & Dan Walsh)…

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17 May 2022

 

 

 

 

 

DYLAN THROUGH THE DECADESBob Dylan’s 81st birthday is on May 24th. WUSB-FM’s Sunday Street Series celebrates his sixty years of recording and performing by presenting Dylan Through the Decades. This webcast will be broadcast on…

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6 May 2022

 

SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME
 
I roll out the summer menu of gigs this month and it is as varied as anything I've ever done over the years. There's me with Aaron Catlow, Dan Walsh, Rab Noakes, Boo Hewerdine and even me with…

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