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Charlie Dore is one of the UK's most respected singer songwriters. In an unusually diverse career her songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello nomination and both the Overall Grand and the Folk Prize from the International Acoustic Music Awards.
Her 2017 album Dark Matter won both Album of the Year and Best Lyrics from the US Indie Acoustic Project, while her 2020 album, Like Animals, won her FATEA's 2020 Female Artist of the Year + Best Lyrics 20-21 from the US Indie Acoustic Project .
While her own albums favour her more eclectic/roots leanings, she is one of a handful of UK writers to achieve success across many genres, defined by the range of artists to have recorded her songs, including Tina Turner, George Harrison, Celine Dion,Ricky Ross and Jimmy Nail, notching up a UK No 1, US No 4 plus Top 10 hits in Italy, Germany & France. She has also composed for three BBC drama series and two films. Her own hit, Pilot of the Airwaves still features on Radio 2's core playlist and remains a worldwide radio favourite.
Previous festival appearances incude Glastonbury, Celtic Connections, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Beverly Folk Fest, Ventnor Fringe (4 years running).
She continues writing for and with other artists and also enjoys mentoring emerging songwriters when she's not recording or touring .
December 2021 saw the release of her first ever Christmas EP The Man Who Built Christmas which she plans to include in her 2022 tour sets on the basis that a good song isn't just for Christmas. Meanwhile she continues writing 'Background Noise', a series of essays about her life both on and off stage.
'A gift for melody, brave, poignant, entertaining, original ' Guardian ????
Like Animals Reviews
"An amazingly astute, moving, intelligent and connected songwriter...a voice like Kate McGarrigle meets Dory Previn. Wonderful ". Mike Harding
" Her finest work to date..." Mike Davies, Folk Radio UK
Videos: Album trailer - Like animals: Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8BiootBUM
A Hundred Miles of Nothing: Video Here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXOHusZeOy8
Collateral -Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFaLXXqo5hU Rivers of Cortisol - Video Here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q9ZU5XWS
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
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