Date/Time
Sunday 20 October 2019
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Folk
Tickets £12 from South Devon Music or on the door.
Kitty Macfarlane is a songwriter and guitarist from Somerset, whose music is rich with visual imagery and written with an eco-eye: her songs are bound by the underlying theme of mankind’s relationship with the wild. Kitty Macfarlane‘s debut album Namer Of Clouds, (Sept 18) gathers inspiration from the sky to the seabed. Carried by a voice ‘as clear as a mountain stream’ (FRUK), her lyrics touch on intervention and rewilding, climate change and migration, and woman’s historical relationship with textiles and the land. The album (and as of recently, her live show) is augmented by all kinds of ‘found sound’ recorded in locations from Somerset to Sardinia – birdsong, waterfalls, the click of knitting needles – and bookended by sounds of the wild.
Kitty has been nominated for the Horizon Award in the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her debut album Namer Of Clouds was one of The Guardian’s Best Folk Albums of 2018 with airplay across BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music, meriting FATEA’s award for Female Artist of the Year and being nominated for Album Of The Year in the fRoots Critics Poll. As a bird enthusiast, last year Kitty was invited to guest-present several episodes of Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day and also performed a live session on BBC Radio 2 in January this year. Since releasing her debut EP Tide & Time back in 2016, and subsequently touring as support for Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Blair Dunlop and Elephant Sessions, Kitty has received project funding from the English Folk Dance and Song Society, and more recently the Lynsey de Paul Prize for female songwriters.“Her remarkably accomplished debut album, Namer Of Clouds, beguiles with its poetry and tenderness, and her eye for detail, vivid imagination and bright vocals make it a captivating listen. She is a talent to watch” – The Guardian
“Smooth and believable” – Iggy Pop, BBC 6 Music
“Stunningly beautiful – what a production, what a sound” – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
“In my view: authentic emotion. That and talent of course” – Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
“There’s something gloriously pure and authentic about everything she does” – BBC Intro In The West
“An inordinately accomplished musician” – Folk Radio UK
“Startlingly poetic” – The Observer
“faint echoes of Joni Mitchell and Vashti Bunyan” – The Metro