Show of Hands
with Miranda Sykes
Friday July 18th - 8.00pm Town Hall - all seated (unnumbered) - £15.00 SOLD OUT
Sponsored by The Wild Pheasant
Show of Hands are without a doubt one of the strongest current forces in acoustic music.
An alchemist couldn’t have come up with a more potent, magical mix than that of Phil Beer, who can, as The Scotsman observed, “play nearly every stringed instrument known to man”, and the inspired Steve Knightley, described by Mike Harding at BBC Radio 2’s 2007 Folk Awards as “one of England’s greatest singer songwriters”.
Together they have built up a huge following which has seen them thrice sell out the Albert Hall, headline at major festivals from Glastonbury to WOMAD and play all over the world.
Voted Best Live Act by the public at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the jury is still out on just what kind of music they play. A genre defying mix of rock, roots, blues, country, trad, and often influenced by the music of other countries, it is played out on an array of instruments from slide guitar to fiddle, mandolin to South American cuatro.
2007 was a milestone year for England’s most popular roots duo – notching up a third sell out gig at the Royal Albert Hall, nominated for Best Duo and Best Original Song (for Roots) at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, headlining at some 20 major UK festivals from Glastonbury to Cambridge and being invited to support Peter Gabriel at the Eden Project, embarking on solo tours and a German tour and then back home in the UK for two sell-out autumn/winter tours.
'Formidable operators in the roots arena. A class act' - The Independent
Visit their website: www.showofhands.co.uk
Playing with them will be Miranda Sykes, one of the few female double bass players in England and an accomplished guitarist and vocalist.
Visit her website: www.mirandasykes.com
Like all Show of Hands gigs, this event will sell out well before the performance date and there will be no tickets for purchase on the night.
