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Over the past four decades, Jez Lowe has been one of the UK?s busiest singer-songwriters, playing for audiences the world over, either solo or with his long-time band The Bad Pennies. He has taken his songs of North-East England to concerts and festivals all across Europe, Canada and the USA, as well as building a sizeable following in Australia and New Zealand. Along the way he has gathered a long list of awards and nominations, including from the BBC Folk Awards and the Sony Radio Awards. His pace and enthusiasm for writing, performing and touring shows no sign of waning.

No wonder no less than Richard Thompson has called him ?The best singer songwriter to come out of the UK for a long time?, and personally invited him to play at Thompson?s Meltdown Festival at London?s South Bank Centre in 2010. Jez Lowe?s contributions to the on-going BBC Radio series The Radio Ballads has cemented this reputation, with a Sony Radio Award among the many accolades coming its way. The project culminated in a live BBC Radio 2 broadcast In November 2018 to commemorate The Great War Centenary that featured Jez alongside the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and narrator Michael Morpurgo.

As BBC Radio DJ Mike Harding said recently, ?No-one else writes or sounds like Jez Lowe?, and chances are, even if you?ve never heard the man himself, you?ll have heard his songs, sung at festivals, club-gigs, open-mikes or on CD, by the great and good, the professional and the enthusiast, the young and not-so-young. What higher accolade could a songwriter hope for?

?Jez Lowe is one of our finest songwriters.? BBC Radio 2

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Lake Terrace,

Grewelthorpe,

North Yorkshire,

England,

HG4 3BU.