Nick Hart - Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs

Cat. no: RRCD003
Format: CD
Barcode: 5029385863241
Release Date: 29 Apr 2022
Genre: Folk

Nick Hart is an award-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work with English folk song is rapidly gaining him a reputation as one of the most acclaimed performers of his generation

His considered approach to accompaniment is informed by a deep respect for the nuances of traditional song and his captivating live performances are a testament to the importance he places on story-telling.

Nick has released two solo albums, Nick Hart Sings Eight English Folk Songs (2017) and Nick Hart Sings Nine English Folk Songs (2019), both to critical acclaim. His predictably titled third album, Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs, is released on his own Roebuck Records.

Recorded during the frst lockdown of 2020, this album is, in many ways, a departure from the stripped back, live approach of Nick's frst two albums. Deprived of a sound engineer and locked away in a house full of strange instruments, he was afforded the time and space to explore different approaches to the accompaniment of traditional song. Nick's distinctive guitar playing is augmented here by harmonium, lyre, viols and a host of percussion and woodwinds, and while some tracks were recorded completely live, others such as "May Song" and "Dives and Lazarus" have been given a more multi- layered treatment. At the heart of it though, Nick has approached the songs on this album with the care and sensitivity for which he has become known, allowing them the space they need, while bringing to the fore the nuances in mode and meter that make these songs so special.

In 2021, Nick scooped the Christian Raphael Prize, awarded in association with the Cambridge Folk Festival, to nurture artist development. As part of the prize, Nick will play the Festival this year.

Critical praise for Nick Hart's previous albums:
"Superb" - The Guardian
"Absolutely Excellent" - Folk Radio UK
"One of the most rewarding and accomplished albums we've heard this year" -
fRoots
"Uncluttered, great singing that reminds me of the very best English roots singers... this is the real deal" - Mike Harding
"A cult classic in the making" - Grizzly Folk
"A wonderful record of some of England's fnest traditional songs, preserved in a beautifully unadulterated form." - Bright Young Folk

Nick Hart live dates 2022 Friday 4th March Norfolk Wildlife Trust Norfolk Thursday 10th March Chapel Arts Bath Saturday 2nd April The Fleece Bretforton Friday 22nd April Folk Weekend Oxford Saturday 23rd April Ashburton Arts Ashburton Sunday 24th April The Cornish Bank Falmouth Saturday 7th May The Muse Brecon Sunday 8th May The Prince Albert Stroud Thursday 19th May Cafe
#9 Shefeld Friday 20th May Temperance Leamington Spa Saturday 21st May The Globe Newcastle-upon-Tyne Sunday 22nd May The Old Bell Derby ***TBC*** Monday 23rd May Live To Your Living Room Online Wednesday 25th May Jam Jar Bristol Saturday 28th May The Grit Lowestoft Sunday 29th May Black Fen Folk Club Cambridge Wednesday 1st June Gullivers Manchester Sunday 5th June Fire in the Mountain Aberystwyth Friday 10th June Tom Thumb Theatre Margate ***TBC*** Saturday 11th June Whitchurch Folk Club Hampshire ***TBC*** Sunday 12th June The Green Scythe Fair Langport Friday 17th June The Hermon Oswestry Saturday 18th June Town Hall Bishop's Castle

Tracks: May Song / Jack Hall / The Outlandish Knight / Lemany / The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood / Dives and Lazarus / Lucy Wan / Henry Martin / Under the Leaves of Life / Our Captain Calls