TWYFORD: The Swiss Cottage

Friday 13th October, 2023

7:30pm

Event information

A house concert in Twyford, near Winchester. Fully acoustic.
Irish alt-folk alchemist Seamus Fogarty released his third album ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ at the end of 2020. His second album for Domino Records (Shirley Collins, Robert Wyatt etc), it follows on from the success of 2017’s ‘The Curious Hand’, an album that was widely praised for its fresh approach to folk music and traditional instrumentation. He released his debut full-length, ‘God Damn You Mountain’, on cult Scottish label Fence Records in 2012

Earlier this year he toured the UK with Irish folk sensation Lisa O’Neill and he has appeared at many notable festivals including Green Man, Cambridge Folk Festival, Latitude, Eurosonic and Haldern Pop. He has also recorded live sessions for Mark Radcliffe on his BBC Radio 2 folk show and Cerys Matthews on BBC 6Music. Expect a mixture of songs and stories taken from his previous albums and a new collection of material due out early next year.

‘Magical journeys through fable and modern life and back again, often in the same song’
The Guardian *****

‘By turns gritty and poetic…a real original’
The Observer (UK) ****

‘That rare thing in folk: original, self-contained and unencumbered by the genre’
Mojo****

“The ghostly emotional wallop of the tunes will take your breath away”
The Irish Times ****