TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 24th July, 2016

7:45pm

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Jim Page’s songs have been covered by The Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, The Moving Hearts, Dick Gaughan, Roy Bailey, David Soul, and Michael Hedges.

Jim got his start in the bars and coffee houses of the lower San Francisco Bay Area in 1966. On New Years Day of 1970 he headed to New York City by thumb, arriving one frozen day in January with a broken fleece-lined jacked and 34 cents in his pocket. He soon borrowed a guitar and started hitting the clubs of Greenwich Village, but the scene had gone and the Village a shadow of it’s former self. A year later he headed to Seattle. In 1974, after being threatened with arrest, Jim took on the Seattle city government and legalized street performing. It was a landmark case and Seattle is now a famous city for buskers of all styles.

In 1977 Jim journeyed to the UK and performed at the Cambridge Folk Festival. The response was instant and overwhelming and he walked away with a feature in the national music press, two booking agents, and a European tour for the next year. He was off and running and spent the next 6 years almost constantly on the road in America and Europe. It was in Ireland that Christy Moore first heard Jim’s song “Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette” and made it a permanent part of his repertoire.

Fast forward to the 21st century and Jim is busy with multiple projects in simultaneous array – constant solo performance, plus various ensemble configurations, leading to more albums.

To quote the late Utah Phillips: “If you’re ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from.”

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Twickenham
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