[Ceilidhsoc] Jim Moray + support from Rosie Doonan

[Kimberley Clipson]

Hi All..

 

There is a second event this week on the 3rd of October (Saturday) from 7-10pm in the Fusion at the Union that we think you might be interested in..

 

 

Jim Moray + support from Rosie Doonan


Sat 3 Oct 2009 19:00 till 22:00
 
Venue: The Fusion (over 14s only) 
Price: £12 adv (£8 with NUS) 
 

Jim Moray is a 27 year old singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer who has created startlingly contemporary recordings of England's traditional songs which have been described as the most significant development in folk music in the last 30 years.

 
Since graduating from Birmingham Conservatoire in summer 2003, Jim Moray has caused a revolution in the folk world with a series of award-winning albums and a developing career as a producer.

 

In February 2004 Jim received both the Horizon Award as best newcomer and the prestigious Album Of The Year Award for Sweet England at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. He has followed Sweet England with two further album ‘Jim Moray' (2006) and ‘Low Culture' (2008) which went on to win the fRoots Critics' Poll Album of the Year Award, Mojo's Folk Album of the Year and gain him three nominations in the BBC Folk Awards 2009.

 

‘The best album of the year came from Jim Moray, whose classy and experimental Low Culture made use of anything from African kora to hip-hop.' - The Guardian

 

‘Those who feel that the folk idiom has nothing to express to the truly modern and young should acquire this album forthwith...This is a genuinely fabulous record.' - The Independent

 

Union Page:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/union/event.php?contentID=6389

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