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Dean Boodaghians-Nolan and Thornton Hough Village Club present:

Nunnery Norheim: Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim are an alternative folk duo from Liverpool and Norway. Their debut album Company of Ghosts was one of BBC Radio 2?s top 10 folk albums of the year, and was nominated for Best Debut in the Spiral Earth Awards. Second album Black Hound Howling and subsequent EP, Songs of Drink and Revolution, were met with wide acclaim as the duo combined beguiling songs with beat poetry and storytelling. Their play with songs Narvik (produced by Box of Tricks Theatre) toured the UK and Norway, winning Best New Play at the UK theatre awards in 2017. The tour was accompanied by the release of their Narvik EP, featuring songs, soundtrack and monologues from the show.

Lizzie Nunnery is a singer, songwriter, playwright and poet. In 2010 and 2012 she took part in the lauded Irish Sea Sessions, collaborating with some of folk music?s finest artists in performances at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and Belfast Waterfront Hall. Her plays with songs have been performed worldwide.

Vidar Norheim is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer. In 2011 he was named as Norway?s most promising song writing talent, winning a place at Song:Expo with industry leading producers and songwriters. He has toured globally with Liverpool's alt pop unit Wave Machines, and works as a composer and sound designer across theatre and screen.

?It?s hard to imagine a record more original from any emerging artists.?
Clive Pownceby, Folk North West on Black Hound Howling

?This multi-talented songstress is evidently one of the great new voices of British folk.?
Eleanor Dickinson, The Journal

?Rebel folk endures and develops uniquely ? just listen to Lizzie Nunnery.?
Ed Vulliamy, The Observer

?A couple of really, really fine albums?very thoughtful, deep and interesting songs.?
Mike Harding on Company of Ghosts and Black Hound Howling

Tickets £11

Doors 7pm Start 8pm

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Manor Road,

Thornton Hough,

Birkenhead,

Merseyside,

England,

CH63 1JB.