SoundBox Spring Thing presents: Jack Badcock

Gigs · Chester

SoundBox Spring Thing presents: Jack Badcock

Thursday 13 May 2027 · Doors 19:00

St Mary's Centre, Chester

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SoundBox Spring Thing presents: Jack Badcock is on Thursday 13 May 2027 at St Mary's Centre, Chester, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £18.70, including the booking fee.

Jack Badcock is a singer-songwriter and guitarist whose solo material reveals an astute songcraft exploring enormously wide-ranging subjects, delivered with a musical sensitivity, clearly influenced by American folk, funk and soul music, as much as the traditional music of Britain and Ireland - and all served with a healthy dose of storytelling and humour. This will be Jack's debut performance for SoundBox, although many may know him as co-founder and frontman of his multi-award winning, internationally renowned world-folk band, Dallahan. He is a hugely experienced performer, having toured throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, both as a solo act and with Dallahan. Raised in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland and later Yorkshire, England, before moving to Scotland as a teenager, Jack has a split national identity shared between the three countries. A previous finalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, his 2021 EP, The Driftwood Project was nominated for Original Work of the Year at the BBC Scots Music Awards. He was invited to write, arrange and perform the prestigious New Voices commission at Celtic Connections in 2022 and, in Autumn 2023, went on tour thr...

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