Britain's What's On Event Guide
Kathy Rhodes
Folk singer/songwriter. Armed with a guitar and a soft, trippy voice, Kathy presents a mixed bag of indie folk originals, and occasionally some covers, filled with elegance, charm and uplifting, intimate, soothing moments of calm contrasting with dynamic bursts of emotion.
Her songs have been described as “sublime” by the prolific French author/historian Dominique Lormier when he discovered her gigging in Bordeaux, where she lived and played for several years! She has often been compared to artists such as Natalie Merchant and Patti Smith.
Kathy´s new album Truth Fills The Sky will be released later this year (2022). The title track is an original song in pursuit of honesty and equality in an ephemeral world. Compositions on the album set Shakespeare´s sonnets and other poetry by Shelley, Cowper and Byron to music; other songs include a well-known traditional American folk song Poor Wayfaring Stranger and more original chronicles of falling apart and languishing but never without an epiphany of hope and courage to end each song with a heartening flourish.
Her previous album Howl with its beatnik title is defiant from the start, analysing in 14 original songs, human emotions and behaviour, expressing malaise and protest against modern society, and projecting sentiments of love, frustration, joy, despair and uncertainty. The thought-provoking «A little white dream» aims to mobilise the public against greed and big business, interjecting with a native American saying «When you've cut down the last tree, poisoned the last river then you will know that you can't eat money». «Jacaranda Avenue» proclaims the value of doing what we love rather than being a conventional, modern-day slave.
Her songs have been described as “sublime” by the prolific French author/historian Dominique Lormier when he discovered her gigging in Bordeaux, where she lived and played for several years! She has often been compared to artists such as Natalie Merchant and Patti Smith.
Kathy´s new album Truth Fills The Sky will be released later this year (2022). The title track is an original song in pursuit of honesty and equality in an ephemeral world. Compositions on the album set Shakespeare´s sonnets and other poetry by Shelley, Cowper and Byron to music; other songs include a well-known traditional American folk song Poor Wayfaring Stranger and more original chronicles of falling apart and languishing but never without an epiphany of hope and courage to end each song with a heartening flourish.
Her previous album Howl with its beatnik title is defiant from the start, analysing in 14 original songs, human emotions and behaviour, expressing malaise and protest against modern society, and projecting sentiments of love, frustration, joy, despair and uncertainty. The thought-provoking «A little white dream» aims to mobilise the public against greed and big business, interjecting with a native American saying «When you've cut down the last tree, poisoned the last river then you will know that you can't eat money». «Jacaranda Avenue» proclaims the value of doing what we love rather than being a conventional, modern-day slave.
7.30 pm
£8 (+ £0.80 booking fee) wegottickets.com/event/554322
Or £10 on the door
£8 (+ £0.80 booking fee) wegottickets.com/event/554322
Or £10 on the door
Whitchurch Parish Hall, London Street, Whitchurch, Hampshire RG28 7LQ
Fri 2 Sep 2022
Website:
loadsbetter.com/kathyrhodes/
©
Where Can We Go Ltd.
2024