Previously Appearing at Wickham was...
Jack Cookson
Jack Cookson is one of 2016’s nominees for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and will be appearing on the Wildlife Stage at 1:30pm, Saturday.
Jack is a multi-instrumentalist and an exciting, young and talented singer-songwriter; a standard set from him is rife with memorable vocal and harmonica melodies, accompanied by masterful, top class fingerstyle guitar arrangements. He combines elements of several genres – blues, folk and punk, paired with articulate lyrics of his roots, his life and of love.
In 2015, he released his self-produced and predominantly self-performed album entitled Revolt & Resolve, while performing over 100 gigs all round the Midlands and South West of the UK, both headline and support. Other past releases include his debut EP Five Times (2012), a split EP with Welsh singer-songwriter Ieuan Williams (2014), and a live EP recorded at Helios Studios, Bristol (2015).
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30 second sad folk song preview dance party right here (strobe warning)
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My first ever trad arrangement releases this Thursday - a Cornish folk song collected by Sabine Baring-Gould (in a civil manner I hope) from a man called James Parsons in the 19th century. I arranged it for @zoe_alker's (of Peterloo fame) short film "Yn Mor", which is "At Sea" in Cornish. It is showing at @cornwallfilm festival this Friday and if you're going you should go watch it because Zoe is a class director and you can see me singing this song in a pub at one bit down in Porthleven
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The song will be available from my bandcamp but also Spotify and the other necessary evils.
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Lovely cover photo by @alohabshaw
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Lovely. Im half scillonian on my dads side his family is related to John Deason the miner from Tresco who went to australia and found that huge nugget of gold which was called Welcome Stranger
Kelvin Batt
Probably same chords as a song you wrote and Joan Osborne wrote but it's ok cause it's got bars of 7 or something. NEW TUNES?!
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#fingerstyle #fingerfongwriter #folk #slipjig #palemenofinstagram #only2publicpostswiththatprevioushashtag #Laira
Nice...what tuning is that ? Sounds lovely
Jack, at 13yo, within 3 months of picking up a guitar, your playing & your creations were intricately beautiful n gob-smackingly complex with it too aha! And that's just you, not down to training or experience even - beautiful stuff innit :) xx
Awesome stuff mate!! 😎
Lovely.
Sounds wicked!
clever boy
What an awesome day tracking Paul Armer's new single. He's a lovely songwriter and a great player, check out his choons. X
