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Robb Johnson

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Presented by: TwickFolk
0TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub
PSunday 11th January, 2015
N7:45pm

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Robb Johnson‘s songs feature in the repertoires of a wide variety of musicians, from folk legend Roy Bailey to acclaimed cabaret diva Barb Jungr, and he enjoys a similarly diverse spectrum of critical acclaim. The US’s Dirty Linen called him “a modern-day Dostoyevsky”, Mojo made the double CD Gentle Men Folk Album Of The Month, while The Daily Telegraph made it their Folk Album of 1998, & Tony Benn said Johnson’s “Winter Turns To Spring” was his favourite song.

sidmouth2Robb has worked with a variety of bands, with friend and fellow songwriter Leon Rosselson, as well as solo. In 1997 Robb wrote the song suite Gentle Men, an ambitious family history of the First World War for the Passendale Peace Concert, where the musicians were a jazz combo led by Belgian jazz legend Koen De Cauter, and he subsequently toured it successfully in Britain too.

Robb’s 2005 album Metro featured piano accompaniment by the late Russel Churney, who had previously worked with Julian Clary, Barb Jungr and Fascinating Aida. Again, the album received widespread praise in both music & national press: “unquestionably classy… excellent songs (that) show again what a fine, if provocative writer Johnson is” (The Daily Telegraph).

His label Irregular Records has also facilitated releases by a variety of song-orientated artists, including an album celebrating the work of Jacques Brel that has done much to focus a renewed interest in the chanson genre. He has translated several of Brel’s songs and performed concerts celebrating Brel’s life & work.

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TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub
067 London Road
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 3SZ
> www.twickfolk.co.uk

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