Wed 16 DecDoors 19:30
Miranda Sykes and Jim Causley
The Red Lion Kings Heath · Birmingham
Two of English folk's most distinctive voices in concert together singing songs traditional and contemporary with double bass, guitar, accordion and piano. After working together in 2024 to create and tour a show celebrating the centenary of the death of the song collector and author Sabine Baring-Gould, they decided to record and tour an album together: “Everything Possible”. Jim Causley is a folk-singer, award winning songwriter, musician, proud Devonian and all-round entertainer. He grew up in a wassailing village not far from Sidmouth Folk Festival and found his voice singing with local choirs. He studied Performing Arts and Jazz & Popular Music at Exeter College where he cut his teeth performing in bands on the Exeter music scene before heading to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to study on their brand new degree course in Folk & Traditional Music. He rose to prominence singing with The Devil’s Interval and Mawkin:Causley as well as touring with Waterson:Carthy and David Rotheray. In recent years his work has focused on his musical settings of poems by his relative Charles Causley, penning his own songs and reviving lost gems from his home county. Miranda Sykes sta...
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