TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 10th December, 2017

7:45pm

Event information

Black Scarr is an East London duo, Black is Johnny Black, a Nuneaton-raised Geordie who was once frontman of now cult 80s Midlands pop outfit The Kidda Band and whose CV also includes work as an album sleeves model, newspaper columnist and 90s TV personality. He also has a website featuring his frequently satirical songs about a variety of media celebrities and wannabes.
The other half of the name is Leytonstone’s Emma Scarr who, raised on a diet of Steve Earle, Emmylou, Kristofferson, Fairport and The Dubliners shares Black’s musical affections and sounds a lot like a fiddle-playing (not to mention banjo, accordion and mandolin) Kirsty MacColl.
Their styles have collided to produce, in a very short time what sounds like a classic English Country/Folk hybrid, not from Nashville, but from the more tucked-away streets of East London and the coal-dust tinged open spaces of the North East of England.

Many of the songs celebrate middle-aged relationships – failed, suffered or survived. Sensitive lyrics are given an upbeat push by lively driven rhythms and tunes. Splattered amongst the bitterness and sadness are bits of hope and tenderness.
Their co-writing has collided to produce four albums and a body of songs that regularly move audiences to a combination of laughter and tears. Honest and gritty, this urban folk/country duo produce songs full of stories and themes that are modern but classic-sounding and timeless, personal and everyday, still universal. Black*Scarr have become known for live performances bursting with energy and chemistry. Prepare to tap your toes to upbeat melodic country tunes and be touched by hard-hitting, yet poetic lyrics that will stay with you, documenting the trials, contradictions, fears and delights of middle-aged life and love.

Former UK Slam Champion Poet Racker Donnelly will be supporting Black Scarr

Racker Donnelly has performed for many music, comedy, arts, folk & story clubs & festivals, and appeared with the Chieftains & Dara O Briain.
His 'racks' and songs, mostly comic, many commissioned,
are about Sheep, Smoking, Tennis, Oysters, Joyce, Horses, Midsummer, Politics, Christmas, The Dublin Riviera, Yeats, Football, Dracula, Wilde, Brexit, Goldilocks, Irish Proverbs, English History, Humour, Irish & English & Scottish folktales
& personalities & whatever you're having yourself.

67 London Road
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 3SZ

www.twickfolk.co.uk