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Fri 20 Dec 7.30 Jackie Oates and John Spiers £16 SOLD OUT
Multi award-winning contemporary folk artists Jackie Oates and John Spiers meld together their shared love of English traditional folk tunes and songs with their fine voices and expertly played acoustic instruments. Audiences can look forward to a heart-warming evening celebrating the traditions of Christmas.
Fri 20 Dec Jackie Oates and John Spiers £16
‘Oates & Spiers left the gaudy, commercialised crass-ness at home ... theirs is a Christmas for all’
‘There’s a sweetness and melancholy to Jackie’s voice that is like no other, and for which there is no known formula with which to replicate it.’
John performs ‘A blend of elegant, rhythmic and virtuoso playing and easy-going folk club banter. A quiet triumph’.
Multi award-winning contemporary folk artists Jackie Oates and John Spiers meld together their shared love of English traditional folk tunes and songs with their fine voices and expertly played acoustic instruments. Audiences can look forward to a fresh, uplifting and poignant evening.
Their festive concerts are a beautiful and heart-warming antidote to the materiality that can be a feature of the Christmas season. The duo perform captivating traditional Christmas carols and tunes from England and beyond.
Although followers of British folk music will be familiar with Jackie and John from their other high calibre bands, this collaboration began quite innocently and spontaneously when the pair first started playing together for fun during guest spots at Nettlebed Folk Club in Henley-on-Thames. Recognising the potential, they began working together on material from their native county of Oxfordshire