Veteran folk-rock band Fairport Convention announces the dates and venues of their 2015 Winter Tour which starts at The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury on 29 January and finishes at the Union Chapel, Islington, London on 1 March.
Although not part of the Winter Tour, Fairport's first gig in 2015 will be a headline appearance at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the prestigious Celtic Connections music festival.
All the Winter Tour concerts will feature songs and tunes from Fairport's brand new album Myths & Heroes which will be released to coincide with the tour, the first Fairport Convention studio album for four years. Each concert will open with a short guest performance by talented guitar-fiddle duo Kevin Dempsey and Rosie Carson.
After nearly fifty years as a working band, Fairport's annual Winter Tour has become a much-loved institution. With its vast back catalogue to draw on, the band presents a fresh concert repertoire each year.
"Fairport always looks to the future and we regularly record new albums," says Simon Nicol who co-founded the band in 1967. "But our first love is still performing live. So we're really looking forward to getting on the road again, especially as this year we've got a whole album's worth of new material to introduce to our audiences."
Formed in 1967's 'summer of love', Fairport Convention has been delighting audiences for over four decades. Hailed as the originators of British folk-rock music, the band is still as vibrant and inventive as ever. Fairport has won a coveted BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and Radio 2 listeners voted Fairport's groundbreaking album Liege & Lief 'The Most Influential Folk Album of All Time'.
Fairport Convention features Simon Nicol (guitar and lead vocals), Dave Pegg (bass, mandolin and backing vocals), Chris Leslie (fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and lead vocals), Ric Sanders (violin) and Gerry Conway (drums and percussion).
WINTER TOUR 2015 DATES and VENUES
January
Thursday 29, Roses Theatre Tewkesbury
Friday 30, The Cathedral Lichfield
Saturday 31, The Atkinson Southport
February
Sunday 1, Coronation Hall Ulverston
Tuesday 3, Cheese & Grain Frome
Wednesday 4, The Swan High Wycombe
Thursday 5, Connaught Theatre Worthing
Friday 6, Playhouse Theatre Weston-Super-Mare
Saturday 7, The Garage Swansea
Tuesday 10, Winding Wheel Chesterfield
Wednesday 11, The Lowry Salford
Friday 13, The Maltings Farnham
Saturday 14, Apex Theatre Bury St Edmunds
Sunday 15, Princess Theatre Hunstanton
Tuesday 17, City Varieties Music Hall Leeds
Wednesday 18, Sage Gateshead
Thursday 19, The Mechanics Burnley
Friday 20, Alban Arena St Albans
Saturday 21, The Stables Milton Keynes
Sunday 22, The Drill Hall Lincoln
Tuesday 24, Gulbenkian Theatre Canterbury
Wednesday 25, Assembly Hall Theatre Tunbridge Wells
Thursday 26, Theatre Severn Shrewsbury
Friday 27, Town Hall Birmingham
Saturday 28, Electric Palace Bridport
March
Sunday 1, Union Chapel Islington
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