Jess Silk

Gigs · Birmingham

Jess Silk

Thursday 28 January 2027 · Doors 19:30

Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham

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Jess Silk is on Thursday 28 January 2027 at Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham, with doors at 19:30. Tickets start at £16.50, including the booking fee.

Jess Silk is be heading back to one of her favourite venues, The Kitchen Garden, bringing her passionate, melodic brand of folk/punk songs along that gets people sitting up and listening. Support for this intimate show will be from Jess' long time gigging buddy Matt Johnson. When these two get together, you really do go home with a heart full of hope in a sometimes dark world. Jess Silk Jess is a guitarist, singer and songwriter from the Black Country. Her passionate and melodic brand of folk/punk music gets people sitting up and listening. Armed only with an increasingly sticker-covered acoustic guitar, lyrics right from the heart and a distinctive, powerful voice that many don't expect, Jess plays to audiences up and down the UK and has shared stages with many well known names among the folk/punk scene. Jess released her debut album, Break the Bottle, in May 2018 with a packed out show at her spiritual home of Katie Fitzgerald’s in Stourbridge. Since then she’s shared a number of other releases including two live EP’s with tracks taken from shows at Katie’s and HMV Merry Hill. 2020 saw the world shut down and Jess release two (almost completely) self produced EPs, the fir...

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