Date/Time
Monday 20 May 2024
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Folk
Book here now: £14 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Singer and guitarist, Jack Badcock is a veteran performer, having toured extensively on four continents, predominantly but not exclusively as frontman and founding member of renowned world-folk band Dallahan. 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 and in 2022 he was selected by Celtic Connections to write and perform an hour of original music with a full band for the prestigious New Voices commission at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.
Jack’s solo material reveals his astute songcraft exploring human history, cosmology, personal experiences and profound questions all delivered with a musical sensitivity clearly influenced by American folk, funk and soul music as much as the traditional music from Britain and Ireland. In 2023 he toured the UK supporting fellow Glaswegian Eddie Reader. This year he’s headlining his own
Listen to Jack Badcock here on Bandcamp.com or see more at jackbadcock.com
“I would really have loved to hear more and will keep an eye out for Jack Badcock in future.” Bob Leslie reviewing Jack’s solo performance at the Celtic Connections festival in 2023 – Full review here.
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