Kathryn Williams

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Thornton Hough Village Club presents Kathryn Williams plus special guest Matt Deighton

KATHRYN WILLIAMS is a British, Mercury music prize-nominated singer-songwriter. With 17 albums under her belt in the last 27 years, her last solo album, Night Drives debuted at #2 in the official folk album charts, while her last album, a collaboration with Withered hand titled Willson Williams was nominated for the SAY and AMA awards. Label One Little Independent celebrated her career (thus far) with a 20-CD and 2-book box set, Anthology, strewn with her artwork.

Her novel The Ormering Tide debuted to critical acclaim, and she also hosts her own popular podcast, Before the Light Goes Out, which appeared in the Top Ten best music podcasts by the Guardian. Kathryn tutors at the Arvon and Moniack Mhor Foundations, and writes with many diverse artists around the world including Paul Weller, Chris Difford, Ed Harcourt, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Michele Stodart. She is the only female included in the Top Ten list of Greatest Liverpool songwriters of all time. Her latest album, MYSTERY PARK will be released this Autumn.

MATT DEIGHTON is the former frontman/ guitarist of ‘90s English acid jazz outfit Mother Earth. He has played and recorded with Paul Weller, Dr Robert (The Blow Monkeys), Mick Talbot (The Style Council) and Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Oasis (when Noel Gallagher quit a European tour in 2000).

Deighton has made several brilliant, soulful, and rustic solo albums steeped in folk and pastoral beauty, yet remains one of Britain’s best-kept musical secrets.

The Observer Music Monthly once said of him: ‘His true spiritual ancestor is Nick Drake,’ while the Sunday Times wrote: ‘It is impossible to imagine fans of Nick Drake and John Martyn not falling in love with him.’