The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny
Saturday 19 May 2012 7:30 pm
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Featuring members of Bellowhead plus Maddy Prior, P.P. Arnold, Joan Wasser (Joan As Policewoman), Jerry Donahue (Fotheringay/Fairport Convention), Dave Swarbrick, Thea Gilmore, Lavinia Blackwall (Trembling Bells), Blair Dunlop (The Albion Band), Sam Carter and Green Gartside (former Scritti Politti).
Tickets £19, £21, £27
In the years since her tragic early death, folk icon Sandy Denny has emerged as one of the UK's greatest singer-songwriters. This special show celebrates her legacy as a new generation are beginning to understand her significance.
Artists such as Laura Marling, Joanna Newsom and Florence Welch are likened to Denny or cite her as an influence. In a short 13 year career Sandy Denny left behind an extensive legacy that has seen her reputation grow and grow. All her recordings have now been comprehensively reissued culminating in a 19cd boxset and an acclaimed album of new songs discovered in her archive and completed by Thea Gilmore entitled Don’t Stop Singing.
For the first time Denny’s entire musical legacy is showcased live in this adventurous concert bringing together her work with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, her solo career and the new songs completed by Thea Gilmore. Gilmore joins a unique line up of artists, including some of Denny’s former colleagues and friends, together with members of Bellowhead who form a ‘super group’ to create this unique, homage to the artist described by Richard Thompson as ‘the greatest British female artist of her generation’.
A video on the Don't Stop Singing album.
Watch
Watch Sandy Denny performing Late November
Related Links
- Visit the official Sandy Denny website
- Visit Bellowhead's website
- Visit Maddy Prior's website
- Visit P.P. Arnold's website
- Visit Joan Wasser's website
- Visit Jerry Donahue's MySpace page
- Visit Dave Swarbrick's website
- Visit Thea Gilmore's website
- Visit Lavinia Blackwall's MySpace page
- Visit Blair Dunlop's website
- Visit Sam Carter's website
- Visit Music Beyond Mainstream's website
Related Events
Free pre-concert talk: 6-7pm. Rodewald Suite
Please note this talk has now sold out.
As a prelude to the show we are pleased to invite you to a free pre concert talk by Patrick Humphries, music biographer and former NME journalist, exploring the life and legacy of the iconic singer.
Patrick Humphries interviewed Sandy Denny in 1977. He had joined NME as a 'hip young gunslinger', along with Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill. At that time punk was what motivated the writers, nobody was much interested in careers of ex-Fairport alumni.
So his talk will put her life and music in the context of the time. Why was music of this quality ignored on release? Why are Sandy and Nick Drake only appreciated posthumously? Even being the only guest singer on a Led Zeppelin album couldn’t help Sandy!
He will explore Sandy’s background - her relationship with her parents and Jackson C Frank, Paul Simon, Judith Piepe and the London folk scene of 1965 and go on to examine The Fairport Years – a mere 18 months that generated three albums, one of which, Liege & Lief, can genuinely be hailed as seminal.
Sandy’s public image was angelic, golden voiced, pure, almost virginal, at odds with the reality. But in the end Patrick will argue that it’s all down to the music. Accordingly the event will feature rare and hard to hear Sandy tracks and alternative album sleeves and rare photos for illustration.
A prolific biographer, as well as Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson and Nick Drake, Patrick has also written on Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Paul Simon and Elvis Presley.
