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Sunday 5th October - Steve Amos & friends - a Sunday Night Special atJabberwocky for IOM GuitarFest 2014. 7pm doors, 8pm start. Featuring brilliant comic singer-songwriter Steve Amos with special guests STRENGYN and Barry Nelson. This will be the closing show of the IOM GuitarFest weekend. Tickets £10 from Jabberwocky or http://www.eTickets.im/jp Tickets will be £5 on the door on presentation of a ticket from either of the other GuitarFest concerts (Martin Simpson on 3rd and Juan Martin on 4th). http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=161 GuitarFest is a Jonnopromotions.com event supported by Island of Culture, Arts Council, Culture Vannin and Aston International Limited to all of whom, many thanks. GuitarFest design by Martyn Cain. -
KEN NICOL will now be performing as Gareth Dunlop has been called away to Hollywood, CA! Ken Nicol makes his debut performance for JonnoPromotions on Sunday 28th September, 2014, at Jabberwocky. Ken Nicol is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer from Preston, in England. His music covers the spectrum from blues to rock, and effortlessly takes in folk, jazz, ragtime, ballads and more along the way. Ralph McTell - “Ken Nicol is a consummate musician. A guitarist of broad scope, a sensitive singer and an intelligent writer of songs with stirring melodies. A musical paragon.” Maddy Prior - “It’s difficult for me to imagine a more talented all rounder than Ken; both as singer and guitarist.” Ashley Hutchings - “Prodigiously talented.” Ken was a member of the legendary Albion Band from 1997 until September 2001 when he left in order to spend more time on other projects. In December 2002, he successfully joined forces with Steeleye Span, working with the band for eight years, most recently on their 2009 40th Anniversary Tour, visiting the USA and Australia. During his time with Steeleye he recorded four albums with the band: ‘They Called Her Babylon’, ‘Winter’, ‘Bloody Men’ and ‘Cogs, Wheels and Lovers’. Ken left the band in 2010. As well as making and producing music, Ken has also worked with guitar makers Fylde guitars to develop the Ken Nicol Signature guitar. Beautifully constructed from cedar and rosewood, its incredible sound led to Acoustic Magazine giving this guitar an unprecedented 99% rating. When he’s not touring or writing, he can be found producing projects of his own and other artists at his MVS Studios in Preston. Guest support from the brilliantly talented Anna Goldsmith. £15 tickets are available from Jabberwocky and also online at http://www.eTickets.im/JP 7pm doors, 8pm show Supported by Arts Council - Isle of Man and Island of Culture 2014 Tickets £15.00 from Jabberwocky and online at http://www.eTickets.im/jp
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Patsy Matheson returns to the Isle of Man playing her second gig forJonnopromotions.com. This is her first Douglas show, having previously played Peel Centenary Centre and Onchan ... A brilliant songwriter, singer and guitarist who has been compared to Neil Young for her songwriting qualities, Patsy was probably best known for her work as a founder member of the award-winning acoustic quartet Waking The Witch, Patsy, who plays mandolin as well as guitars, had been a successful solo artist for some time before that band was formed, having released two albums, performed solo at Glastonbury and supported top artists including Al Stewart, Christy Moore, the late John Martyn, Gordon Giltrap, Dick Gaughan, Glenn Tilbrook and The Saw Doctors. Since Waking the Witch’s demise, Patsy has released three solo albums, the latest (Domino Girls) being launched this month. Patsy was awarded “Best Female Singer” in the 2013 Spiral Earth Awards. Guest support from Chris Gray! Tickets £15 available now on http://www.eTickets.im/jp and also from Jabberwocky in hard copy! Launching her new album Domino Girls - here's a 4 Star review from The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/27/patsy-matheson-domino-girls-review Doors 7, show 8pm a JonnoPromotions event supported by Isle of Man Arts Council & Island of Culture 2014. https://www.facebook.com/iomartscouncil https://www.facebook.com/JabberIOM
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Multiple award winning musician Ewan McLennan makes his Isle of Man debut ... http://www.ewanmclennan.co.uk/ Spiral Earth "Best Male Singer" 2013 Alistair Hulett Memorial Award for Political Songwriting 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk "Horizon Award" winner 2011. Ewan recently featured on several of the Transatlantic Sessions (currently being shown on BBC iPlayer ... check him out!). Here's a Guardian review http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/09/transatlantic-sessions-returns-longevity-roots Featuring Matt Creer as special guest support act http://mattcreer.com/ Tickets £15 available now on http://www.eTickets.im/jp and fromJabberwocky in hard copy! Doors 7pm, show 8pm a JonnoPromotions event supported by Isle of Man Arts Council & Island of Culture 2014. https://www.facebook.com/iomartscouncil https://www.facebook.com/JabberIOM http://www.iomtoday.co.im/what-s-on/manx-entertainment-news/folk-artist-to-perform-at-jabberwocky-1-6479338
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Saturday 25 January 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/178536805672464/ First concert for both Jon and Chris at Port St Mary Town Hall. It's also the first time they've worked together. An amazing night in prospect. Bring your own bottle! Tickets are £15 and available at Patchwork Cafe, Port St Mary and from Thompson Travel, Port Erin, right now! Also online at http://www.eTickets.im/jp What can I say about Jon Gomm that hasn't already been said ... returning for his first public gig on the Isle of Man since the IOM GuitarFest IV in 2011 - and since his long career as a troubadour was given a major boost by Stephen Fry tweeting Wow about Jon's song Passionflower ... Chris T-T has played a few times on the Island, last at the Three Legs Festival in November 2012. He's a prolific recording artist and has been acknowledged as an influence by artists like Frank Turner (who he has toured with and played with). Doors 7pm, show 8pm Sunday 26 January 2014 https://www.facebook.com/events/232151710282022/ What can I say about Jon Gomm that hasn't already been said ... returning for his first Douglas gig since the IOM GuitarFest IV in 2011 - and since his long career as a troubadour was given a major boost by Stephen Fry tweeting Wow about Jon's song Passionflower ... Chris T-T has played a few times on the Island, last at the Three Legs Festival in November 2012. He's a prolific recording artist and has been acknowledged as an influence by artists like Frank Turner (who he has toured with and played with). Tickets £15 available now on http://www.eTickets.im/jp and from Jabberwocky in hard copy! Jabberwocky season ticket is available for a £10 discount (Jon Gomm & Chris T-T Jan 26, Jarrod Dickenson Feb 16, Ewan McLennan March 23, Patsy Matheson April 27). Only online at www.eTickets.im/jp ... and only a limited number. Doors 7pm, show 8pm
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Nu / anti-folk artist and winner of Acoustic Magazines's UK singer-songwriter competition. His songs are instantly accessible, everyman tales of life, love and everything else in between. Played in a folk-ish style with occasional use of the guitar as a percussive tool, as well as some two handed venturing around the fretboard, Gaz's simple yet poignant songwriting captures the imagination of the listener. "Great songs and solid playing... A highly promising album from a talent to watch." Acoustic Magazine "There's a certain charming Billy Bragg-esque quality to these everyman tales... a gem of an EP!" (8/10) Greg Thomas, Rock City "Gaz has an honesty and charm about his performance which is seldom seen amongst his contemporaries." Will Walder, BBC Wiltshire Introducing "You really should do yourself the favour of checking out Gaz's music." Dave Franklin, Green Man Music "One of the most passionate singer/songwriters I've ever seen." Blues Matters magazine https://www.facebook.com/gazbrookfieldmusic Guest support act Jeff Jepson Show 8pm Tickets are £15 and now available on www.eTickets.im/jp and also available in hard copy from Jabberwocky. Biography Gaz Brookfield is a solo acoustic musician based in Bristol. His songs are instantly accessible every-man tales of life, love and everything else in between. Since the start of his solo career Gaz has had the pleasure of gigging and/or touring with Frank Turner, Newton Faulkner, The Levellers, The Ataris, Mike Herrera (MXPX), Vinnie Caruana (The Movielife), Jonah Matranga, I Am Kloot, Miles Hunt, Dodgy, Jim Lockey and The Solemn Sun, Dave McPherson and many more. He recently secured an endorsement deal with Godin/Seagull guitars. In 2010 he won Acoustic Magazine's Singer Songwriter of the year competition, earning him, among other prizes, a slot on the Big Top stage at the Beautiful Days festival. This is where JonnoPromotions first saw Gaz play and led to loads of other festival appearances over that summer, and bookings for even more in 2011 and 2012, firmly cementing him as a regular on the UK festival circuit. Gaz recently toured the UK's O2 Academies with The Levellers, where he broke all the venue records for numbers of albums sold by a support act every night (upwards of 60 albums sold per night). This secured him yet more tour dates with them in Europe in May 2013 and the UK in June 2013. With over 800 gigs under his belt to date, he continues to tirelessly tour the UK, proving that the "journeyman" title is more than a simple metaphor. His albums "Trial & Error", "Live from the west end of the M4 corridor" and "Tell It To The Beer" are available on CD and online through iTunes, 7Digital & Amazon.
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"There are only two people in art that matter. There's the creative individual and the person experiencing it. Everything else is an artificial filter. This a way for me to share my work with you without any filters whatsoever." - Otis Gibbs Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Gibbs is often referred to as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in Romania, was a fifth grade yo-yo champion and once wrestled a bear (and lost). Otis has played countless, theatres, festivals, bars and house concerts and has managed to carve out a living, while remaining happily independent. Much of his work concentrates on the world ignored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete, or simply marginalized, it is a world that doesn’t fit into a twenty-second sound bite, or talking point. Otis has spent the last fifteen years traveling across America and abroad documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way. Some videos here http://tinyurl.com/Otis-Gibbs-JonnoPromo-YouTube "when it comes to song craft and true emotion, Gibbs is up there with the best of them ... an excellent songwriter and singer – with a voice like honeyed bourbon – he is a consummate showman in the old-fashioned sense of the word. His between song patter is as much part of the show as the tunes: Gibbs gives his music context by sharing his tales of growing up, the working life and the loves and losses inherent in life ... Gibbs knows how to pierce to the heart" James Meredith http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/ "Harder Than Hammered Hell" is Otis Gibbs’ sixth album. It’s also the fourth release by Wanamaker Recording Company, the East Nashville based independent label he started in 2008 with long time partner Amy Lashley. The album title was inspired by experiences Otis had when he worked as a tree-planter in Indiana. Much of what he learned came from a seventy-year-old friend/co-worker. The man would describe ground that is too hard to dig as, “harder than hammered hell.” He would also use the phrase when referring to a difficult job, or a particularly tough person. Otis found it a fitting metaphor for the difficulties of leading a creative life When asked about his approach to making records Otis replied, “I’m silly enough to believe that I’m the world’s foremost authority on what an Otis Gibbs record should sound like. I tend to enjoy stripped down arrangements that highlight the song and the vocal.” There is a feeling of strength and perseverance that resonates throughout his work and his lyrics often speaks of accepting the harsh realities of life without giving into them. Below are some of the lyrics from tracks on "Harder Than Hammered Hell" “Somewhere outside the vacant world two fools stare fate in the eye, singing oh you’ll never take us alive.” -Broke And Restless “When the suffering world is about to uncurl and reaches up and under your skin, you might sit there alone, but you’re about to be thrown into a box you never could fit in, we were made to break.” - Made To Break Don’t Worry Kid - recalls childhood feelings of not fitting in. “I wish that more people would be honest with kids and let them know that there’s nothing wrong with feeling different. Any sane person would feel out of place in a society that idolizes celebrities and trash culture while catering to short attention spans. The good news is they’re not alone and it does get better.” “Don’t worry kid you know it’s gonna get better than this there’s nothing wrong with you that you can’t work out we’re all filled with doubt, don’t worry kid.” - Don’t Worry Kid Big Whiskers was inspired by a childhood memory. In 1966, the World Record Flathead Catfish (79lb 8oz) was caught out of White River near Gibbs’ childhood home. Otis fished that same river countless times and heard many stories of huge catfish spotted there. Otis asked his friend, Adam Carroll to help him finish a song based on some of these tall tales. Gibbs and Carroll met up at a rundown hotel outside of Austin, Texas and finished the song in an afternoon. Otis currently resides in East Nashville with his partner Amy Lashley. Billy Bragg included Gibbs' song "The Peoples Day" in a list of "Top Five Songs with Something to Say", published in the Wall Street Journal. Andy Gill of the The Independent wrote that there is a "authenticity and dedication in Gibbs' delivery which is somehow cleansing in its purity". Come and see this singer songwriter who has been compared to Woody Guthrie, Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen. Tickets £15 from http://www.eTickets.im/JP Available now in hard copy from Jabberwocky. http://otisgibbs.com/ And as Otis often says, "Thanks for giving a damn!"
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Manx debut for Sean Taylor - with special guest Lily Wolter @ Jabberwocky Sunday 22 8pm start ... tickets still available £15 from Jabberwocky or on the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/593297150713040/ ''An absolutely superb guitarist ... reminiscent of John Martyn" Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2 "My main listen today - Springsteen and Taylor are cheering my day...brilliant, stunning songs. Great album.' Mike Harding ''A star in the making ...a superb talent'' Metro "Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!" Eric Bibb ''A bluesy devotional intensity that rightly draws comparisons to John Martyn" Q Magazine Sean Taylor has rapidly grown to be one of the hottest new names in the UK blues/acoustic scene. His incredible passion for performance, sheer talent and songwriting of the highest calibre is a testament to his frequent comparisons with John Martyn and Tom Waits. He has opened for artists such as John Fogerty, Neville Brothers, Tony Joe White, Eric Bibb, Tom Paxton, Tift Merritt and Band Of Horses. He has toured Holland, Switzerland, Australia, France and Ireland. The past couple of years has seen Sean’s profile rocket with three UK tours and festival performances at Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Beautiful Days and many others His new album 'Chase The Night' was recorded in Austin, Texas with producer Mark Hallman (Carole King, AniDi Franco, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lyle Lovett et al.) and features legendary double bass player Danny Thompson ... Check out some of his YouTube footage here: www.youtube.com/seantaylorsongs "Formidable and skilled...recalls Chris Isaak. ****" - Uncut "Slow burning, haunting, dextrous picking...Taylor is a find (8/10)" - Classic Rock "Prodigiously talented singer-songwriter...touchstones would be Tom Waits and John Martyn'' - R2 Magazine Sean has developed into a headliner in his own right, through his incredible passion for performance, sheer talent and songwriting of the highest calibre. This will be another night to remember! Listen to Sean's songs here https://soundcloud.com/sean-taylor-songs or on his webpage http://www.seantaylorsongs.com/ Tickets on sale from Jabberwocky or http://www.eTickets.im/jp
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Boo Hewerdine will be the featured artist for the third "Sunday night special" at Jabberwocky on 18th August 2013. Boo Hewerdine is an artist with a brilliant musical CV of international collaborations and a prolific songwriting career of hit songs spanning more than two decades and many genres. In the 80s and 90s he fronted cult group The Bible (‘Honey Be Good’, ‘Graceland’) and he then went on to write and work with a wide range of artists including Eddi Reader ("Patience of Angels") (also a member of the Eddi Reader band), k.d. lang ("I'm down to my last cigarette"), Natalie Imbruglia ("something better"), Chris Difford (co-writer of album "The Last Temptation of Chris"), Justin Currie (of Del Amitri), Kris Drever (of Lau), Jack Savoretti ("Dr Frankenstein") Brian Kennedy and The Corrs among many others. A selection of my favourite Boo Hewerdine tracks on YouTube are here (including some of his appearance on the BBC Songwriters' Circle with Justin Currie and Chris Difford) http://tinyurl.com/Boo-Hewerdine-JP-Playlist You can listen to a selection of tracks on Boo's site - http://www.boohewerdine.net/audio.html and on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/boo-hewerdine Boo's show at Jabberwocky on Sunday 18th will be to an intimate audience of 50 and the show starts at 8pm (doors 7pm). There will be a guest support act. More about Boo here: http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=147 Tickets are on sale now at £15 from http://www.etickets.im/jp/ - please buy early to avoid disappointment. The Facebook Event page is at https://www.facebook.com/events/335215349943076 Hard copy tickets are available from Jabberwocky. A JonnoPromotions event kindly supported by the IOM Arts Council.
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“He’s one of Australia’s most gifted musicians...” John Butler of the John Butler Trio A second 2013 gig for the "Godfather of Australiana". Jeff Lang, playing his first gig at Jabberwocky ... his last visit was Autumn 2011 for GuitarFest IV, where he double headlined with Darren Nauendorf. “Jeff Lang is amazing, so talented and original” Richard Thompson "Lang’s music is as fiercely original as it is moving." Guitar Player Magazine Check out some YouTube tracks here Singer-songwriter Jeff Lang has built up a reputation for startlingly original performances, working without a set list, allowing the unique energy of each night to shape the songs. Ask anyone who's seen him play - and you'll know you're in for an amazing night of entertainment More about Jeff here http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=20 Tickets from http://www.etickets.im/jp/ ON SALE NOW £15 Guest support act, Barry Nelson http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=119 https://www.facebook.com/events/373917336042926/?ref=ts&fref=ts
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JonnoPromotions Jarrod Dickenson Jabber June 2013.pdf JonnoPromotions presents the American troubadour at Jabberwocky, Sun 30 June, 2013. Jarrod Dickenson is a Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival Grand Prize-winner and returns to the Isle of Man from the USA following his whirlwind November 2012 tour here as part of the inaugural Three Legs Festival. "voice like a young Tom Waits ... simply breathtaking" No Depression / Maverick Magazine Jarrod has recently been touring the UK and the USA with David Ford, garnering critical acclaim and building his fanbase. "Jarrod ... proves he’s one to watch with a clutch of classy songs from his ‘The Lonesome Traveler’ LP, the beautiful 'Come What May' being a particular delight" pennyblackmusic.co.uk Jarrod's show on Sunday 30th will be to a very select audience of 40. With guest support from Richie Moore http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=63 More about Jarrod here: http://www.jonnopromotions.com/viewartist.php?aid=142 Tickets on sale now from http://www.etickets.im/jp/ at £15 each
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Cancelled - Sadly due to unforseen circumstances we've had to cancel at the last minute. Apologies to all intending to go but rest assured we will endeavour to make it up to yourselves with are next gig - details of which can be found on the fidgets facebook page or on here.
