Last weekend the highly acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter John Smith produced a show-stopping set at the Cambridge Folk Festival with a performance that God Is In The TV said “affirms his position as one of the foremost exponents of modern folk music”. Now we can look forward with much anticipation to later in the year when he embarks upon an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland.
John Smith’s live dates:
04 Oct Aberdeen The Lemon Tree
05 Oct Ullapool Guitar Festival
10 Oct Cork IE Coughlan’s
11 Oct Cork IE Coughlan’s
12 Oct Limerick IE Dolan’s
13 Oct Dublin IE Unitarian Church
14 Oct Bangor NI Studio Theatre
17 Oct Chipping Norton The Theatre
20 Oct Whitby Musicport Festival
21 Oct Liverpool St George’s Hall
22 Oct Gateshead Sage Gateshead
24 Oct Leeds The Wardrobe
25 Oct Sheffield Picture House Social
26 Oct Thames Ditton The Ram Club
30 Oct Newbury Arlington Arts Centre
01 Nov Bury The Met Arts Centre
02 Nov Scunthorpe Cafe Indiependent
03 Nov Halifax Square Chapel
04 Nov York The Crescent
07 Nov Middlesbrough Town Hall
09 Nov Bristol Rough Trade
10 Nov Plymouth Barbican Theatre
11 Nov Dartmouth The Flavel
12 Nov Exeter Phoenix
14 Nov Southampton The Brook
15 Nov London St Pancras NEW Church (Bloomsbury)
16 Nov Brighton Unitarian Church
17 Nov Guildford St Mary’s Church
To celebrate the news, Smith has just released ‘Willy Moore’, the first song to be taken from his forthcoming album, Hummingbird.
Speaking about ‘Willy Moore’, which was recorded at fellow folk musician Sam Lakeman’s Somerset studio in March 2018, John Smith explains how the track came into being. “Collected in Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, no-one knows who wrote it, but it’s probably from the early 20th century. I first heard this performed by the gentleman genius Wizz Jones. It’s a heart-breaking account of two young lovers’ tragedy.”
Main photo of John Smith at Cambridge Folk Festival on 3rd August 2018 by Simon Godley
