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?A gift for melody, brave, poignant, entertaining, original?
Guardian ?????

"?her dark wit sculpts her lovely lyricism, her gentle, unique voice is one to die for.?
Folk Wales

In a career of several decades multi-award winner Charlie Dore realised she had never written a song about Christmas. There?s a first time for everything and so Charlie Dore presents her new EP - The Man Who Built Christmas, with her long-time collaborator Julian Littman of Steeleye Span. The pair will swap guitars, piano, mandolin, harmonium, ukulele, banjo and stories as they showcase these new originals, alongside favourites from her past nine albums.

She says: ?My whole catalogue was an entirely Christmas-free zone, which was fine by me, that is, except for one song, Santa and Edie, which I wrote for Green Note's Festive Show last year. This whet my appetite for approaching the whole Christmas in my own way. It was like making minature movies with the listener behind the camera. I hadn?t written at all during lockdown, I was completely blocked - but this finally fired my imagination.?

One of the UK?s most respected songwriters, Charlie has written for the good and the great, including TinaTurner, George Harrison, Celine Dion and Paul Carrack, notching up along the way a UK No. 1, a US No. 4 and Top 10 hits in Germany, Italy and France, but her live shows reveal that she keeps the best songs for herself. Her own hit, Pilot of the Airwaves remains a worldwide radio classic and she often includes a new acoustic version in the set.

?Subtle songs that pack a punch? absolute gems of modern songwriting.? Mike Harding

?.. one of our most intelligent and erudite singer-songwriters.?
Fatea Magazine

Prepare to be entertained -
charliedore.com


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1 Silver Street,

Maldon,

Essex,

England,

CM9 4QE.