TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 1st February, 2015

7:45pm

Event information

Rebecca Hollweg is a singer and songwriter who grew up first in west London and then in very rural west Somerset. She lives in London with her husband, bassist Andy Hamill, and their 10-year-old daughter Ruby. Andy has produced her two critically acclaimed albums – June Babies (2001) and Orange Roses (2008) and also her forthcoming third album Country Girl, due for release in 2015. Country Girl will feature 10 new songs including “Ruby” and “The Week”.

For two years running, in 2009 and 2010, Rebecca’s song “Orange Roses” was highlighted by Aled Jones on his BBC Radio 2 programme to tie in with Dementia Awareness Week. It received an overwhelming response from listeners, several of whom played it at family memorial services and said they felt it could have been written for them.

In 2010 Rebecca was invited for a second time to play at Vamos Festival, Crete, sharing the bill with two former members of the Korgis, Stuart Gordon and Phil Harrison – both formative influences on Rebecca’s music-making.

In 2010 she also published a children’s story, “The ball that got stuck in the tree“, with illustrations by singer-songwriter colleague and print-maker Jeb Loy Nichols.

In 2011 she continued to play gigs in London and was invited back to Crete to play at Vamos Arts Week for a third time, this time sharing the bill with poet Roger McGough. She played Moseley Folk Festival in Birmingham at the recommendation of BBC Radio 2 DJ Janice Long, who introduced her set.

She has appeared a regular guest of poet John Hegley at his monthly London night session, and has sung on several tracks for the new album from Tony Penultimate, aka Peter Brooke Turner of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

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