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Joni, Sandy & me ? An Evening with Sally Barker to celebrate her Birthday !
BYOB ( Bring your own booze - and glasses !!! )

Sally Barker, veteran folk-blues artist and Voice UK 2014 Tom Jones' finalist, is delighted to bring her 'Joni, Sandy & me' show to her home village of Gilmorton to celebrate her Birthday (19th September). Sally explores the legacy of both Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny alongside her own while discussing their lives and the challenges they faced as trailblazing singer/songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s.

Founding member of revered fem-folksters The Poozies and folk-rock's reformed Fotheringay (now re-named The Sandy Denny Project), Sally reduced her mentor Sir Tom Jones, and many at home, to tears with her performances on the Voice UK. During 30+ years as a fiercely independent artist Sally has worked with Show of Hands, Fairport Convention and supported Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Sir Tom amongst many others.

www.sallybarker.co.uk

"Sally changes the atmosphere in a room when she sings" (DJ Chris Evans).

'Money's Talking' by Sally Barker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nkTolu4Mck See Sally sing Sandy's 'Rising for the Moon' as guest vocalist with Fairport Convention here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKJhSM1g3WU Here is a version of Joni's 'Raised on Robbery': www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcmx0zNe3s
venture here for Sally's version of Joni's 'Coyote': www.youtube.com/watchv=A57A3GTQxU8

Canadian Joni Mitchell is a living legend.

Joni's 4th album 'Blue' is regarded as a masterpiece and the epitome of the confessional singer-songwriter genre. She became a darling of the Greenwich Village coffee house folk scene in the 60s with her enigmatic songs, often written on the guitar using open tunings. Artists such as Judy Collins, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush, Buffy St Marie and George Hamilton IV had hits with her songs before Dave Crosby took her to Los Angeles, introduced her to his manager and produced her first album, 'Song to a Seagull'.
Joni followed this with the self-produced 'Clouds', 'Ladies of the Canyon' and 'Blue'. Successive albums ('For the Roses', 'Court and Spark', 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns', 'Hejira' and 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter') encompassed forays into pop, country and jazz. The 1979 album 'Mingus' divided critics and lost Joni her mainstream audience.

Although her later work did not match the commercial success of her golden creative period between 1968 and '79, her reputation as the most influential female recording artist of the late 20th century was assured. Joni recorded seven more albums of new music, the last being 'Shine' in 2007. A brain aneurysm in 2015 affected Joni's speech and mobility but due to daily rehabilitation she is recovering, and to the surprise of many took to the stage again with an unannounced appearance at the June 2022 Newport Folk Festival.

Sandy Denny, writer of 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes', is best known as the lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

Sandy duetted with Robert Plant on 'The Battle of Evermore' for Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin IV in 1971. Following her departure from Fairport, a four album solo career followed her briefly-lived band Fotheringay (with husband Trevor Lucas). Her distinctive songwriting style and treatment of traditional folk repertoire is evident on these four solo albums: 'The North Star Grassman and the Ravens', 'Sandy', 'Like an Old Fashioned Waltz', and 'Rendezvous' before her untimely death in 1978 at the age of 31.

Music publications Uncut and Mojo have called Denny Britain's finest female singer-songwriter.

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Main Street,

Gilmorton,

Leicestershire,

England,

LE17 5LS.