BOO HEWERDINE & YVONNE LYON : THINGS FOUND IN BOOKS
A bookish return to Winter Tales for two of the finest musical wordsmiths
Wylam Institute, Church Road, Wylam, NE41 8AP
Saturday 1st February, 7.30pm Doors & Bar, Show Starts 8.00pm
Price: £17.50
Total Tickets: 100
After captivating audiences with their solo performances at previous Festivals, singer-songwriters Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine make a very welcome Winter Tales return with their new collaboration. “Things Found In Books” is an album of songs written in response to a quirky notice board in the second-hand bookshop at historic Culzean Castle in Ayrshire. Notes, photographs, old receipts, letters, postcards and fragments of people's lives had been collected from the old books and kept on the board on the wall among the bookshelves. Yvonne and Boo formed an inimitable songwriting partnership, weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.
Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed Ivor Novello Award nominated English singer/songwriter. For over 30 years he has been considered one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters. As lead singer of seminal band, The Bible through to his subsequent solo work and long-time collaboration with the incredible Eddi Reader Boo has become something of a national treasure. Eddi Reader enjoyed international success with the Hewerdine written hit single Patience of Angels in 1995 and Boo also produced Reader’s Sings the Songs of Robert Burns in 2003, an album now viewed as a folk classic. He is one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business.
‘One of Britain's most consistently accomplished songwriters’. Colin Irvine, BBC Review
‘One of the best songwriters we have’ Nick Coleman,The Independent on Sunday
‘One of the country's finest lyricists’. The Birmingham Evening Mail
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer/songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio release and Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense. She has guested on two live sessions with Bob Harris on his BBC Radio 2 show and completed a Masters Degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of the West of Scotland.
‘I love her, absolutely love her… great song beautifully performed’ Michael Ball, BBC Radio 2
‘Just stunning music’ Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
