The Hug and Pint presents:

The Furrow Collective

+ Luki

The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, GB

£12.50
Entry Requirements: 18+
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November 2018 saw the release of the third album by award-winning and acclaimed folk group The Furrow Collective. Their new album 'Fathoms' was produced in Powys and Oxfordshire by honorary fifth-Furrow Andy Bell and sees the group build further on their substantial reputation for breathing new life into traditional songs.

The twelve recordings of which Fathoms is comprised capture typically innovative arrangements and set the four distinctive voices in a magical, captivating sound-world. As with their previous collections, the impression is by turns ancient, evoking the lines back to the earliest source, and then altogether unknown; fresh as tomorrow morning.

The Furrow Collective is an English/Scottish band consisting of four talented and individually prominent performers: Lucy Farrell (viola, voice & saw), Rachel Newton (harp, fiddle, voice), Emily Portman (banjo, concertina, voice) and Alasdair Roberts (guitars, voice). The group formed in 2013, drawn together by a shared love of traditional song and balladry of the England, Scotland and beyond and an open, intuitive approach to collaboration. In recognition of their innovative approach, The Furrow Collective were awarded the accolade of 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 'Best Group', hot on the heels of the release in late 2016 of their second album, Wild Hog (also on Hudson Records).

The Furrow Collective tours extensively throughout the UK as well as in mainland Europe, delighting audiences with their uniquely beguiling approach to traditional song. April 2019 sees the band touring Scotland and England in support of ‘Fathoms’.

‘A bravely sparse and compelling new take on traditional songs... A quietly classy young folk band’ Guardian

‘The Furrow Collective have an air of immeasurable antiquity, while at the same time making the songs vibrantly new’. R2

'A mouth-watering collaboration' **** 4 Stars Mojo

'One of the finest collaborative albums of the past few years' Folk Radio UK

‘Best Group’ – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2017

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The Furrow Collective

Luki is an unsigned singer, pianist and songwriter based in Glasgow. She has spent the last year writing and arranging/ adapting songs, and performing at Glasgow venues (including The Glad Café and The Hug and Pint) and open mic nights. She is currently putting together material for a song-cycle which will be a sequence of songs performed as a live act.

Luki sings songs on piano/ keyboard in a style somewhere between art-song, piano bar and cabaret. She is interested and influenced by the impersonal voice of folk and traditional music, the melodrama of music theatre, early music & madrigals, cabaret, commedia dell’arte, and other forms of song which invoke a sense of the uncanny.

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