Kitty Macfarlane
+ Mark W. Georgsson
Kitty Macfarlane is a Somerset-based singer and songwriter. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of everyday humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries, driven by her own fingerpicked guitar. As well as the release of her debut EP 'Tide & Time' - featuring Sam Kelly (co-producer), Jamie Francis, Lukas Drinkwater, Maya McCourt and Ciaran Algar, and gaining her first national airplay on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe, and Tom Robinson's show on BBC 6Music - 2016 has seen Kitty complete an extensive national support tour with award-winning duo Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman.
This autumn sees the release of Kitty's highly anticipated debut album, produced by Sam Kelly and featuring a recognisable cast of musicians. A collection of original and traditional songs threaded together by the theme of mankind's relationship with the wild, tackling issues of rewilding, climate change, and migration, as well as woman's historical relationship with textiles and the land. As many of the songs have a firm sense of place (mostly in Somerset where she grew up) field recordings taken at locations mentioned in the songs form a soundscape that weaves in and out throughout. Kitty will be touring this album throughout the UK in the autumn of 2018.
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Kitty Macfarlane is a Bristol-based singer, guitarist and songwriter. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of everyday humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries. This autumn sees the release of Kitty Macfarlane's highly anticipated debut album. A collection of original and traditional songs threaded together by the theme of mankind's relationship with the wild, tackling issues of rewilding, climate change, and migration, as well as woman's historical relationship with textiles and the land. Kitty has toured as support for Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Blair Dunlop, and Elephant Sessions. Other achievements include airply on BBC Radio 2, Tom Robinson's show on 6Music, her 'Bus Song' featuring as as a theme-tune on BBC Radio 4, and making the semi-final of the BBC Young Folk Award in 2015. Kitty has also been awarded a creative bursary from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) for a songwriting project, and was a runner-up in the PRS Lynsey de Paul Prize for female songwriters.
Mark W. Georgsson is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Glasgow.
The former Velveteen Saints bassist has just released his debut album, Faces And Places, with Rod Jones (Idlewild) producing.
Recorded between Edinburgh, Mull and Reykjavík with a revolving door of friends and musicians, Georgsson gives us his own take on alt. folk/country with touches of Nordic vibe.
Faces And Places is OUT NOW and is available on limited edition 12" vinyl via Last Night From Glasgow: http://lastnightfromglasgow.bigcartel.com/product/mark-w-georgsson
Also available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/faces-and-places/id1192349085
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6HKAAwvWvhEOb3B1cOt7e9
