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Chris joins Joan Armatrading on tour
“This year I will be mostly” … joining Joan Armatrading as a special guest for her UK tour. We met on stage at the Folk Awards last year and a week or so after, her people called my people (I have always wanted to say that!) inviting me onto the tour.
A little Joan story..
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couple of years ago I was at Glastonbury with The Imagined Village and we were setting-up backstage while Joan was onstage doing her set. Backstage at Glastonbury is a fevered place with huge roadies (beards/shaven heads) and industry hardened stage crew (stubble/ponytails) – not to mention 10 deeply cynical musicians – all plugging in. No one was aware of what was going on onstage until we heard…
CHORD “I am not in love - CHORD - but I’m open to persuasion”
Every single person backstage froze!
Click here for a link to Joan's site and her full tour details.
Right now I’m just digging and fishing and scribbling and plunking around with my new best friend, a 1964 Epiphone which may well join me on a gig or two this year.
Chris
Chris sings live duet with Ron Sexsmith on Radio 2.
"What a treat it was to get to sing with Ron Sexsmith as part of Radio 2's 2DAY. He wandered into BBC Maida Vale at 8am having played a show the night before and was a perfect gent. We lurched through Bob Dylan's Dark Eyes a couple of times before deciding that over-rehearsal would be a mistake so went straight to air. Folk'n Roll!"
Chris wins two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2011
Folk Singer Of The Year - Chris Wood
Best Original Song - Hollowpoint, Chris Wood
(from the CD Handmade Life)
Chris Wood's new album Handmade Life out now.
“Gentle, powerful and classy”
The Guardian ★★★★
"It really needs to win an award. The band is a marvel"
The Independent ★★★★
"Wood delivers masterpieces"
Songlines ★★★★
“melding the personal and the political without any trace of creative fatigue”
Spiral Earth ★★★★
"Undoubtedly one of the albums of 2010, regardless of genre."
Americana UK.com ★★★★★
"CD OF THE MONTH"
www.theartsdesk.com
Next gigs...
Windmill Hill, Ashill, ILMINSTER, Somerset, TA19 9NX.
www.midnightmango.co.uk
Bedwin Street, SALISBURY, Wilts, SP1 3UT.
01722 321 744
www.salisburyarts.co.uk
Chris Wood with special guest Dizraeli
2 Regents Park Road, LONDON, NW1 7AY.
020 7485 2206
www.efdss.org
Catton Hall, BURTON ON TRENT, Derbyshire.