New Routes – Christina Alden & Alex Patterson and George Breakfast

Another instalment in the New Routes series, an evening of acoustic, folk and roots artists.

Set out cabaret style with candles on tables, it’s a comfortable and intimate space to listen to the best emerging and established artists from the area.

Featuring Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
Christina Alden & Alex Patterson are multi-instrumentalists and songwriters from Norwich. Their music is rich with intertwining harmony, sensitive accomplished musicianship and a creative song-writing style that is both delicate and moving. Deeply inspired by the world around them, they have a keen environmental eye to craft stories with the natural world at its heart, reflecting on the relationship between humans and the wild.

They have enjoyed touring extensively in the UK and Europe; including a twenty three-date concert hall tour with Show of Hands (including Union Chapel and St David’s Hall Cardiff), a show at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections, headline and main stage performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious folk festivals and performances in Norway, Belgium, France and Ireland. They have written and self-released four albums, composed music for a BBC Radio 4 documentary series and have had over a million streams on Spotify.

A milestone for contemporary folk songwriting – Bright Young Folk
A bright, lively collection of songs that plays so sweetly it evokes the sensation of a summer folk festival – The Guardian
Perfectly matched harmonies…at times it’s hard to tell them apart, you could be listening to a single voice – Folk Radio UK
Gorgeous harmonies and lush melodies…a beautiful album that transports the listener to wild landscapes and wild lives – BBC Countryfile
Alden’s voice is hauntingly beautiful – Folk London
Alex would give even the great Swarbrick himself a run for his money in terms of sheer feeling and passion – At The Barrier
George Breakfast
George’s mother often related how he used to sing in French on the bus as a very young child…not something he remembers..but then who remembers everything?…
He’s been picking and scratching on stringed instruments since he was around thirteen…Canadian ukelele, guitars and onwards…bass, mandolin, bouzouki…always to the accompaniment of much singing…
by his late teens he had begun writing and singing his own songs….and has been doing so ever since….pubs. clubs, street corners, subways, festivals, theatres, radio shows, even a little TV…done so in most western European countries, and a fair amount of the USA, where he lived for nine years…..still up for it anywhere they’ll have him…
some of his songs have been covered by other artists, both in performance and on recordings…
he has made a number of recordings himself, both solo, and as a member of all kinds of line-ups…there’s a whole bunch of them here https://georgebreakfast.bandcamp.com/

There’s a raspy Americana edge to his voice, and a gospel-inflected strut to his songs…
There’s a raspy Americana edge to his voice, and a gospel-inflected strut to his songs…
vocals that layer soul onto the tunes like honey dripping off a biscuit.
Stage Times
7.30 Doors
8.00 TBC
8.30 Interval
8.45 George Breakfast
9.30 Interval
9.45 Christina Alden & Alex Patterson
10.30 Finish
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