Ian A Anderson - Live in Cambridge

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Ian A. Anderson - no, not that one! - began his solo musical career in the mid 1960s, heavily influenced by old country blues players, before taking a left-swerve in the early '70s into what nowadays gets called 'psych folk', with a trio of songwriter/ guitarist albums for Bristol's pioneering and now highly collectable independent label Village Thing.

He eventually settled into a personal - and notably English - style, drawing from traditional folk, blues, old-time and world roots musics, making some dozen albums by the end of the 1980s with groups Hot Vultures (with Maggie Holland), the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth. Then after a break from live performance in the 1990s he returned to stages and recording this century with the trio Blue Blokes 3 (with PiL's Lu Edmonds and 3 Mustaphas 3's Ben Mandelson), the duo The False Beards (again with Mandelson), and a successful re-union tour by Hot Vultures in 2016.

Over the years he's appeared in multiple guises at most of the UK's important folk/roots venues and festivals (from the very first Glastonbury to Cambridge, Sidmouth, Shrewsbury, Womad and many more). Since early 2017, he's been enjoying performing and recording solo again, with repertoire and anecdotes drawn from across those 50+ years of experience.

Three ticket prices - We're committed to bringing high quality roots music to Cambridge at affordable prices , and as such our standard advance ticket price is £10. However, if you'd like to see the artist take home a little more (over 80% of our ticket profit goes to artists), then there is now an option to pay slightly more (£12) if you are able to. There are also a very limited number of no-questions-asked concession tickets (£8).

If tickets remain then they will be sold on-the-door, but at a higher price.