**Please note this gig will be taking place at Kanteena in Lancaster. Age limit is 14+**

 

Plus support from Faye MacCalman

 

Richard Dawson returns with news of his latest record End of the Middle, released 14 February. While Dawson is no stranger to big musical ideas, be it opening his 2022 album The Ruby Cord with a world-building 41-minute track or writing epic songs from the perspective of a seed in collaboration with the Finnish experimental rock band Circle, here Dawson dials everything down. “Everything is held back and soft.” By stripping things to a bare bones essence, what is revealed is a remarkably poised, oddly elegant and beautiful collection of songs – unquestionably some of Dawson’s finest work to date.

Faye MacCalman is a performer, composer-songwriter and improviser on saxophone, clarinet, voice and electronics. Faye fuses experimental songwriting with free-weaving melodies and enveloping rhythms drawing on jazz, folk and rock music inspired by under the surface emotional worlds; playfully merging magical realism with raw realities. She can be heard on Richard Dawson’s new album “End Of The Middle.”