The NEW Radio Ballads - songs from the BBC series inspired by Ewan MacColl’s original programmes - started the tour in Liverpool last night to a standing ovation. Bury Met tonight, Blackwood Wales tomorrow. With Bob Fox and Julie Matthews.

Tomorrow night 14 June Bob Fox Jez Lowe & Julie Matthews are playing Norden Farm #Maidenhead It’s a concert of songs and spoken word entitled ‘The New Radio Ballads -In the Footsteps of Ewan MacColl’ Get your tickets at: norden.farm

Clacton girl says it as she sees it. Fagash Farage offers Clacton nothing.

On tonight’s #SandD on @Cambridge105 previews of Bury Folk Festival and Ely Folk Festival with tracks by REG MEUROSS John Ward 🍃💚🍃 MORGANWAY Christina Alden & Alex Patterson Jez Lowe Steve McGrady “Rivers, Roads and Sky” 21 June 2024 rory mcleod Sean Taylor Listen live on digital, FM and online from 7pm cambridge105.co.uk

Book 4 The Keeker Seam almost due for a second printing after 8 weeks! Thanks to all who have dug into it.

“Be careful, when a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus #FrenchElections

Tonight Sunak thought he’d wow the voters by bringing... this... to his rally. Yes, the man who partied his way through a pandemic, who broke the laws he wrote, who culled the herd, who lied compulsively, who let the bodies pile high in their thousands. A one-man moral vacuum.

Don’t forget what they have done. Partygate, the Covid contracts, the lies, the kickbacks. The cronyism, the failure to invest, the division and scapegoating, the trips to the bookies, the Liz Truss mini-budget, the decimation of your public services. Don’t forget any of it. 🧾

#AquaticSongs - July 14: Ice / Glacier / Fjord "Vikings" - Short Sisters from "The Short Sisters – Live At Paul And Annie's" (2010) Written by Jez Lowe Jez Lowe "Once we were happy in our hills & fjords, A saga of lava & smorgasbords' youtu.be/NBEz6EPjyXc

First festival of the summer for me last weekend & a fine time at Ely. Next up for me is Sidmouth. Support your local festivals folks!

“A Worked-Out Seam?” - the role of coal mining songs in modern folk music. My first gig at The Sidmouth Folk Festival on Tuesday next. Harbour Hotel 4.30pm.

Fantastic session The Sidmouth Folk Festival with Jez Lowe about coalmining songs: tragedy, humour and his book, The Keeker Seam.

Fine time The Sidmouth Folk Festival this week. Now heading north to Saltburn Folk Festival. Then back south on Monday for Broadstairs folk week for a New Radio Ballads concert.

First of two days at Saltburn Folk Festival. Weather amazing, music fab and audience great.

We are closed for August black swan folk club Black Swan Inn, Peasholme Green, York Black Swan Folk Club, Black Swan Inn York but back on Thurs Sept 5 with special guest Jez Lowe JEZ LOWE wegottickets.com/event/628159

Fab line-up at this one-day festival in Newcastle, featuring O'Hooley & Tidow, Leveret - ON TOUR OCTOBER 2024, Jayne Dent ~ Me Lost Me, Jez Lowe, Cri du Canard, Sam Baxter, Janice Burns’s Ouseburn Folk Choir and students from the Newcastle Uni Music / ICMuS Folk Degree. Early bird tickets £30 - book by 31 August.

The club reopens after our August break this Thursday Sept 5 with JEZ LOWE @lowejez wegottickets.com/event/628159 Looking forward to a great evening with one of our favourite performers.

Busy Autumn - Part One.

Solo at The Black Swan in York tomorrow night (Thursday 5th). On to Kelso Festival on Sunday.