June Tabor, Huw Warren & Iain Ballamy
Quercus
June Tabor is one of the most adventurous and
distinctive voices in British music today. As her live performances become increasingly rare, June offers Brighton Festival audiences two concerts, each with different musicians and entirely different programmes.
A peerless interpreter of traditional song, June
Tabor's singing career, initially unaccompanied,
grew alongside those of contemporaries such as
Martin Carthy, Nic Jones, Martin Simpson and
Maddy Prior. A restless creativity has led her
into unexpected collaborations where she has
applied her interpretational acuity to material by
writers including Duke Ellington, Elvis Costello,
Tchaikovsky and Tom Jobim.
Tonight, in the first of her concerts Tabor joins
forces with pioneering jazz musicians / composers Iain Ballamy (saxophone) and Huw Warren (piano) under the name Quercus. The performance they create is lyrical, harmonically intriguing and quietly emotional, using original instrumental pieces as breathing spaces between sets of songs. The result is a fertile musical microclimate in which Tabor's natural eclecticism truly thrives.
'Tabor's voice always wins you over... unafraid, unadorned and completely beautiful.'
BBC
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