ALEX ROBERTS
Thursday 22 January

Alex Roberts blends genres from baroque to blues in a host of alternative tunings and with some fine lap-steel playing and stomp-boxing. His style is effortless while his technique is masterful and innovative. But it’s not just outstanding musicianship that drives him; what’s driving this artist is song. The timeless charm of his music is the perfect vehicle for Alex to present his lyrical musings. In the fashion of the troubadour, he crafts stories, love songs, ballads, spirituals, or protests into a mesmerising web of song.
Alex engages the listener with rapturous allure; the vocal lines ebb and flow around elegant guitar parts and the result is an uplifting and wholesome symbiosis of voice and instrument.

What folk have said

 ‘Outstanding. A compelling songwriter, exemplary and original.’
Cat Whistle – Bournemouth Folk Club

‘a guitar player with a great feel and a song-writer with wonderful imagination. His style tips its hat to John Renbourn and Bert Jancsh from the here and now... one of my favourite performers’
Martin Harley

"Alex plays bloody wonderfully"
John Renbourn

Album Reviews

‘Think Damian Rice, Nick Drake, and a little Bob Dylan… This is a real beauty. Roberts’ songs evoke images of sun drenched wheat fields and beaches turning golden by the falling sun. You’ll love this album - it’s one of this year’s best kept secrets’.
‘Acoustic’ magazine on ‘Giant Killer Session’ 2007

 ‘A gift for storytelling on a British contemporary folk album we can be proud of’
‘Acoustic’ magazine on ‘By the Ley’ 2008

For more info on releases and gigs visit:
www.alexrobertsmusic.co.uk

to see Alex playing at his last gig for us go to our Youtube page ... click

also playing: Conrad Vingoe, Zara Sophia, Frank Boyle, Red Dog,

admission £4.