TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 12th October, 2014

7:45pm

Event information

Jessica Lee Morgan is an eclectic sort, drawing influences from Joni to Jimi, Freddie to Frankie, but in live gigs mostly found with her guitar.

She has been performing all her life. As the daughter of sublime singer Mary Hopkin and legendary record producer Tony Visconti, she tried hard to rebel and become an accountant or a lawyer or something useful, but her roots forced her at last and perhaps belatedly into music and following in their footsteps, as her brother, composer Morgan Visconti, had done from a tender age. She has performed in all sorts of venues and bands in the UK and USA, from jazz to hard rock. Writing songs since she was four, she finally begat her album. 'I Am Not' which features contributions from family and friends.

Her songs are about life, love, society and fame, always delivered from the heart and interspersed with a belly laugh. Expect to be asked to sing along.

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From her first composition at the age of 7 Lowri Evans has followed a musical path which has taken her from her Welsh language roots to studying a degree in Jazz and Pop music, living in Newcastle Upon Tyne to releasing albums in both English and her native Welsh languages. She has appeared at numerous Festivals which include Cambridge Folk Festival, The Green Man, Wychwood, Gate to Southwell Folk, SWN, Village Pump Folk and Celtic Connections, as well as support slots with artists such as Cara Dillon, Martin Simpson, John Renbourn, Jim Moray, Jez Lowe and Richie Havens.

Inspired by a need to return to her more acoustic roots and deliver an album true to herself, the 10 songs are full of love lost and found, hope and despair, anticipation and anguish. “The single ‘Corner of my eye’ is about how we believe we have all the time in the world to live our lives – we’ll always be young and that we are in charge of our own destinies. But time catches up with us, we aren’t in control and precious things in our lives can be snatched away from us in an instant. I often catch a glimpse of my grandfather out of the corner of my eye. He died 16 years ago but lives very much in my heart. The smallest things can remind us, and for just a second, we believe we really did see them and that they aren’t lost to us” says Lowri of the album’s title track.

The album was recorded and produced in various living rooms, bedrooms and sessions at Fflach studio in Cardigan West Wales by Lee Mason and Lowri Evans. Accordion player Andy Cutting and renowned acoustic and slide guitarist Martin Simpson, both BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Best Musician Winners feature, contributing to 6 songs on the album.

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