St Ives September Festival: Martin Simpson

Martin Simpson – listed in Gibson Guitars’ Top 30 Acoustic Guitarists of all time – is equally at home playing English traditional folk, American folk and blues and his own compositions.
He has had the most nominations of any performer in the history of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, an astonishing 32 – 13 of those as Musician of the Year, winning that prestigious accolade twice. His own songwriting produced the poignant Never Any Good from Prodigal Son, 2007’s Folk Album of the Year.
Martin continues to collaborate with a dazzling array of people from across the musical spectrum: Jackson Browne, Martin Taylor, June Tabor, Richard Hawley, Bonnie Raitt, Danny Thompson, David Hidalgo, Danú, Richard Thompson and Dom Flemons are among the great performers he has worked with. Every gig is a masterclass, giving rapt audiences passion, sorrow, love, beauty, tragedy and majesty through his playing.

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