Event

House Concert - Jez Lowe

For the last twenty years, Jez Lowe has toured the world, building up a formidable reputation in the USA, Australia and Europe, and gaining the respect of his peers and his audience alike. Folk supremo Richard Thompson called him "the best songwriter to emerge from the UK in a long time", and his songs are among the most widely sung by folksingers and bands around the countrys clubs and festivals. In December 2007 Jez was nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008 as Folksinger of the Year, alongside Martin Simpson, Kate Rusby and Julie Fowlis.

Folk and acoustic music is undoubtedly enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment, and this County Durham singer-songwriter is among those enjoying the benefits of this rebirth. Jez has a new album just out, his 14th set of original songs of the North Country, and the BBCs "Radio Ballads" to which he contributed twenty-odd songs last year has just won a Sony Radio Academy Award. His new album is called JACK COMMONS ANTHEM, and was inspired by the cult Geordie novelist of that name, whos work chronicled life in the North East in the early 20th Century. Jez Lowe has taken up that same torch a hundred years later, in a selection of songs and tunes that reflect the hard times, the good times, the hard work and hard play of the region where he was born and raised.

"Lowe has earned the right to be counted among England's finest contemporary songwriters." -- Colin Randall, London Daily Telegraph 2007

Jez will be performing in the intimate environment of a house concert where's there are no bad seats, and only about 50 or so of them. He'll be purely acoustic, and his music will fill the room with songs both old and new.
More about Jez at www.jezlowe.com