Description

Kitty Macfarlane plays Ashburton Arts Centre

Doors and bar open at 7pm
Music starts 7.30pm

Kitty Macfarlane is a songwriter and guitarist from Somerset, recently nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 for the Horizon Award, and voted FATEA Female Artist of the Year.

Her trademark lies in remarkably mature songwriting, a marked empathy with the environment and a strong sense of place. Carried by a clear voice 'controlled yet wild' (Folk Radio), her lyrics touch on intervention and rewilding, climate change and migration, woman's age-old relationship with textiles and the land, and the changing face of the natural world. From the starling murmurations on the Somerset Levels to the lowly eel's epic transatlantic migration, the coasts and estuaries of the South West and the small part we ourselves play in a much bigger picture, her songs are bound by the underlying theme of mankind's relationship with the wild.

Her debut album Namer Of Clouds was one of The Guardian's Best Folk Albums of 2018 and nominated for fRoots Album Of The Year. Last year she was invited to guest-present two episodes of BBC Radio 4's Tweet of the Day and performed live in session on BBC Radio 2 at the beginning of 2019.

Listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk54H-OWCn4

"Smooth & believable" - Iggy Pop, BBC 6Music
"Startlingly poetic" - The Observer
"A talent to watch" - The Guardian
"faint echoes of Joni Mitchell and Vashti Bunyan" - The Metro
"stunningly beautiful... what a sound" - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

Description

Ashburton Arts Centre is a community-owned and run place where the arts of all kinds happen.

It opened in 2018 in the town's old Methodist Church. Come see world-class live music, theatre, etc plus local performers, classes and community events.

15 West Street,

Ashburton,

Devon,

England,

TQ13 7DT.

07980 680052