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Nunnery Norheim

Folk Duo - Support from Jeff Young

Presented by: Thornton Hough Village Club Events

0	THORNTON HOUGH: Village Club
P	Saturday 23rd March, 2024
N	7:00pm

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Dean Boodaghians-Nolan and Thornton Hough Village Club present:

Nunnery Norheim: Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim are an alternative folk duo from Liverpool and Norway. Their debut album Company of Ghosts was one of BBC Radio 2′s top 10 folk albums of the year, and was nominated for Best Debut in the Spiral Earth Awards. Second album Black Hound Howling and subsequent EP, Songs of Drink and Revolution, were met with wide acclaim as the duo combined beguiling songs with beat poetry and storytelling. Their play with songs Narvik (produced by Box of Tricks Theatre) toured the UK and Norway, winning Best New Play at the UK theatre awards in 2017. The tour was accompanied by the release of their Narvik EP, featuring songs, soundtrack and monologues from the show.

Lizzie Nunnery is a singer, songwriter, playwright and poet. In 2010 and 2012 she took part in the lauded Irish Sea Sessions, collaborating with some of folk music’s finest artists in performances at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and Belfast Waterfront Hall. Her plays with songs have been performed worldwide.

Vidar Norheim is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer. In 2011 he was named as Norway’s most promising song writing talent, winning a place at Song:Expo with industry leading producers and songwriters. He has toured globally with Liverpool's alt pop unit Wave Machines, and works as a composer and sound designer across theatre and screen.

‘It’s hard to imagine a record more original from any emerging artists.’
Clive Pownceby, Folk North West on Black Hound Howling

‘This multi-talented songstress is evidently one of the great new voices of British folk.’
Eleanor Dickinson, The Journal

‘Rebel folk endures and develops uniquely – just listen to Lizzie Nunnery.’
Ed Vulliamy, The Observer

‘A couple of really, really fine albums…very thoughtful, deep and interesting songs.’
Mike Harding on Company of Ghosts and Black Hound Howling

With Support from Jeff Young

Jeff Young is the author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Portico. He's an essayist, a scriptwriter for radio and stage, and used to write for TV. He collaborates with musicians and artists on installations, sound art, spoken word and performance projects in places such as a submarine dock, shipyard warehouse, derelict townhouse, cobbler's shop and boating lakes. He's also a collagist and assemblage maker. The sequel to Ghost Town is out in 2024 and after that he's going to attempt/fail to write Lucid Dreamer, the definitive hallucinatory history of Liverpool's counter-culture.

Tickets £11

Doors 7pm Start 8pm