Winner of two prestigious categories at this year’s Radio2 Folk Festival Awards 2009, awarded both ‘Folk Singer of the Year’ and ‘Best Album of the Year’ (Trespasser), Chris Wood is musical gold!
Quay Arts host this multi-hued and talented songwriter/singer on Sun 26 Apr in the Anthony Minghella Theatre at 8pm.
Chris is a folk musician and composer who sings, plays the fiddle, viola and guitar and his powerful storytelling is evident in his powerful latest album, Trespasser.
His repertoire includes much French folk music and traditional Québécois material.
His love and understanding of the unofficial history of English speaking people and his sophisticated intelligence weaves the known into the new, creating contemporary, timeless tales.
His songwriting has been said to share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson at his best.
His gift for storytelling in song is priceless, as evidenced on his critically acclaimed latest release ‘Trespasser’.
At the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006, the Best Original Song category was won by Chris Wood and raconteur Hugh Lupton for “One in a Million”, a modernisation of the traditional tale in which a lost ring is rediscovered in the stomach of a fish.
He was also nominated in three other categories: Best Album (for “The Lark Descending”), Best Traditional Track (“Lord Bateman”), and Folk Singer of the Year.
What others have said:
The Irish Times heralded Chris Wood as “the renaissance man of English folk”
“Trespasser is my album of the year” Billy Bragg
Bits and Bibs:
Performance Date/Time: Sun 26 Apr Performance 8pm Doors 7pm
Location: The Anthony Minghella Theatre
Ticket Price: £13 / *£12 (Friends Concession)
Box Office: 01983 822490
