ALLAN TAYLOR at the Hungry Horse Folk Club, Whitby Club, Ellesmere Port, CH65 6QF

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This concert may be one of the last opprtunities to see ALLAN TAYLOR perform at the Hungry Horse Folk Club, as he has intimated that retirement could be on the cards for him soon.

ALLAN TAYLOR -- known as The Song Poet, is one of the last of the travelling troubadours who came through the sixties and carved out a career as a solo singer-songwriter. From the vibrant folk music scene of London, playing all of the major folk clubs and festivals of the time and then to Greenwich Village, New York, playing legendary clubs such as Gerde’s Folk City and the Gaslight, and then to Los Angeles and Nashville he embraced the issues, images and emotions of his time. Signed to the international record company United Artists his albums were released world-wide. By the mid-seventies he returned to Europe to live and then started on the second part of his career, having now established his modus operandi – collecting the stories for his songs in the bars and cafes of Europe and throughout the rest of the world.

For more than fifty years Allan Taylor has travelled the world performing at festivals, concert halls and clubs. He is considered to be one of the foremost singer-songwriters and guitarists in his genre, with more than two hundred recorded versions of his songs by Artists in ten different languages. One song in particular, “It’s Good To See You” was a hit in many countries, and to date, there are more than one hundred and twenty cover versions of this song.
He has made more than twenty-five CDs/Albums and continues to record with Stockfisch Records in Germany.
He writes his songs in cafes, bars and hotel rooms throughout the world, and each song is a vignette of life, like a story told over a drink in a bar. His songs have an integrity that tell you they come from something real, where characters come to life and become people you know. Places become as familiar as if you had been there. When this happens, you know it’s an Allan Taylor concert.
Now, having just turned 80, Allan, now known as a legend of the music scene, will present an evening of songs, stories and anecdotes of life on the road. As Allan says at the beginning of each concert, “Sit back and enjoy the journey.”
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