Dave Pegg & AJ Clarke

& VERY SPECIAL GUEST SUPPORT - MEGAN HENWOOD

Thursday 13th November ‘25

Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg & Anthony John Clarke perform at the Crooked Billet, Stoke Row. A brilliant evening is guaranteed, 2 legendary musicians & consummate entertainers.

Outstanding music & humour from 2 beautiful men.

Peggy & AJ have honoured us with their hugely engaging, funny & musical evening previously. It's brilliant - a double act of outstanding music & buckets of humour. AJ, top Irish stand-up comedian and musician storms it every night he gets on stage. 25 years of touring, discovered by audiences all over the world, AJ has a legion of followers. Peggy, regarded as one of the most entertaining and amusing raconteurs and songwriters on the folk scene. A multi-instrumentalist and record producer and one of the original Fairport Convention members, joined in 1969 and has remained the groups sole consistent member. Original members include Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny and Dave Swarbrick! Peggy features on 100's of legendary other folk rock albums including Nick Drake's 'Bryter Layter', John Martin's 'Solid Air' and various Ralph McTell albums including 'Streets of London'. Peggy also bass player, singer, songwriter with Jethro Tull. Peggy responsible for re-forming the Fairports and their annual get together festival Cropredy, attracting audiences of 20,000 plus. Therefore, a magical chance to enjoy AJ & Peggy, great pals in the intimacy of the Crooked Billet's dining room. Great tunes, great songs, great gags.

Megan Henwood, as a writer and performer she belongs to a tradition, though perhaps not solely to the one many expected after she and her brother, Joe, won BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Award in 2009. Instead, the lineage that Henwood can claim is the same one that Bob Dylan tapped in to when he upset folk purists, first by writing his own songs, then by going electric; she is closer in spirit to idiosyncratic singer-songwriters such as her key influences – Elliott Smith, Bill Withers, Anaïs Mitchell – or to those writers who similarly dig down deep into music’s roots to find new ways to innovate: Terry Callier, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey.

£30 music cover charge

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