In The Footsteps Of Ewan MacColl

Bob Fox, Jez Lowe & Julie Matthews come together ‘In The Footsteps Of Ewan MacColl’, a concert of songs and spoken word.

In the 50s and 60s Ewan MacColl along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home Service covering a variety of subjects and using an audio documentary format to highlight the experiences of real people weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about their recorded interviews. Almost half a century later, in 2006, a new set of Radio Ballads were commissioned by BBC Radio 2 using the same format but this time involving a whole team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene under the guiding hands and watchful eyes of producer John Leonard and musical director John Tams.

Now three members of that team, Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews, have put together a selection of songs from the 2006 new Radio Ballads for a concert performance ‘In The Footsteps Of Ewan MacColl’.

Tickets: £20 from the venue or online


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Date

May 21 2023
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Time

8:00 pm

Cost

£20.00

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Location

Foxlowe Arts Centre
Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 6AD
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