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The Half Moon Events in Association with JSW Entertainment Group Presents Sunday Sessions.

Sunday Sessions is a series of seated performances hosted at the Half Moon in Melplash. At the venue we have installed a marquee which has been transformed into our own cabaret, socially distanced music venue in the midst of the West Dorset Countryside. Over the coming weeks we will be promoting a range of Folk, Blues, Americana and Jazz at the beautiful 17th century thatched inn. 

So how do we run Sunday Sessions during a worldwide pandemic?  How do we deal with social distancing and covid compliance?
The show is a pre allocated table booking for your social bubble. These tables are available in bubbles of 6,4,3,2 seaters for booking within our socially distanced venue.
Bookings for all events will be only available via our online booking system which will work through e bookings and contact fee. Please visit: 

On arrival at the venue you will be greeted by our host and shown to your pre allocated table**

With our sheltered seating capacity of 60 advanced tickets (Garden Marquee). Weather dependent we will be able to offer further bubble bookings throughout our garden on the door.*
Whilst abbiding to government England guidelines all the usual test and trace system and hygiene systems will be in place and this event will be operating table service only. 

Not only will the event have exciting weekly lineups but award winning food and drink through-out the evening.

JINDER:

JINDER is a songwriter, storyteller and international touring musician based in the UK's pastoral Westcountry. Best known for his 2019 top 40 singles 'Overthinkers Anonymous' and 'Keep Me In Your Heart', the latter of which has been successfully covered by many other artists and features in 2019's international smash hit movie 'Fishermen's Friends', Jinder has released eleven critically acclaimed albums for five different labels, including Sony BMG and Universal.

Following the analogue lo-fi folk noir of 2015's 'Traditional Dark' and the blues exposition of 2017's 'presents...Kingsize Blackfoot', February 2020 saw the release of Jinder's eleventh album. Titled after the seminal epoch of Russian poetry, 'The Silver Age' is a landmark album, filled with sweepingly beautiful arrangements and lush orchestration, carrying Jinder's trademark ruminative oblique narratives to the emotional shores of the listener on a dark wave of joy and, by turns, pain.

Jinder's story begins with a childhood spent in the folk heartland of Warwickshire, sheltered by the rolling Avon Dassett hills and steeped in impromptu family jams with friends such as Dave Swarbrick and Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention. Pursuing a career in songwriting from the age of 14, Jinder founded alt/rock group Candlefire in his late teens, who subsequently signed to hip independent label One Little Indian in 2002 and scored a chart hit with single 'Sorrow Spreads Its Wings' later that year.

After disbanding Candlefire in 2004, Jinder signed as a solo artist with fledgling Nottingham based indie Folkwit, releasing solo LPs 'Willow Park' and 'I'm Alive' in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Largely thanks to the support of Zane Lowe at BBC Radio One and celebrity endorsees such as Brian Wilson, Coldplay and Ryan Adams, Jinder signed to Sony BMG in late 2007 and formed The Mercurymen, an acoustic based trio of singer/songwriters, with Jinder joined by former Mickie Most proteges Simon Johnson and Gavin Wyatt.

2008 saw the release of the Mercurymen album 'Postcards From Valonia', accompanied by tours with Sinéad O'Connor, Deacon Blue and Level 42. The album received extensive support from BBC Radio Two, with the band recording interviews and live sessions for Johnnie Walker, Janice Long and Bob Harris amongst many others.

After departing the Mercurymen in 2009 to return to solo work, Jinder signed to Universal Records as a staff songwriter and solo artist, releasing his bestselling solo album 'Crumbs of Comfort' through Universal in 2012. The album features Jinder's best known song, 'Keep Me In Your Heart' (also a hit for Aled Jones in 2014) and 'Let My Love Be Your Shelter', subsequently covered by TV star Nick Knowles on his UK No.1 album in 2018.

Jinder's songs have also been recorded by Ridley Scott collaborator Lotte Mullan ('La La Love You'), former Christians songwriter and acclaimed solo artist Henry Priestman ('I Cried Today'), and classical crossover group Elysium III ('Keep Me In Your Heart').

After leaving Universal in 2014, Jinder chose to focus on his own label, Din Of Ecstasy, turning down an offer from Polydor in favour of putting his energies into self-releasing and building the cottage industry brand. The first fruits of this came in the form of 2015's lo-fi statement 'Traditional Dark', an eclectic record which abandoned any commercial major label mores, swinging from neo folk to country-rock to grunge style protest without pausing for breath. Recorded entirely to tape in a crumbling Westcountry cottage, the album drifts in and out of focus and challenges the listener at every step, garnering the best reviews for any Jinder release to date.

2016-2018 saw extensive touring in UK and Europe, plus collaborations with Billy Bragg, Henry Priestman and more, along with the release of Jinder's tenth album, 'Presents...KINGSIZE BLACKFOOT'.

2019 was a banner year for Jinder, following the top 40 chart success of 'Keep Me In Your Heart' and 'Overthinkers Anonymous' with another extensive tour thoughout UK and Europe, and the release of further singles 'The Train To The Sky' and 'I Still Believe' to great success.

2020 saw the release of critically acclaimed eleventh album 'The Silver Age' in February. Sadly, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the extensive UK, Europe and US tour booked to promote ?The Silver Age? was subject to blanket cancellation, so Jinder and producer Pete Millson returned to the studio during lockdown, recording the ten powerful and deeply felt new songs that form ?Almanac for the Failing Days?, Jinder?s second new album of the year, set for release on 7th August 2020, less than six months after ?The Silver Age?.


* Please note we (the promoter)  have the right to remove any patron from the permis. Patrons unwilling to adhere to not only the social distance guidelines but also our venue policies. Will be asked to leave with no refunds possible. 
** Please note we allocate tables from the front of the venue to the rear on a first come first serve basis.
*** Please note outside seating is not covered and should weather change we cannot provide an alternative.

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Melplash,

Bridport,

Dorset,

England,

DT6 3UD.