Ben McElroy- Beacons of the Wilderness

Name: Ben McElroy- Beacons of the Wilderness
Start: 2024-09-28T16:00:00+01:00
Location: 65, Halifax Road, Todmorden

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

65, Halifax Road, Todmorden | Todmorden, EN

BEN MCELROY
Ben is an ambient/folk musician originally from The Wirral but now residing in Nottingham. He combines acoustic instruments (guitar, viola, clarinet, whistles and vocals) with a laptop to create folk inspired soundscapes. Ben has been writing music since his teens, with just a basic grasp of guitar and recording, but over the years has honed his sound, bringing in more instruments and finding influence in artists including Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Pauline Oliveros and Brian Eno.
In April 2023 he received funding from Help Musicians to release his new album (a recorded take on his live set) on vinyl and tour it around the UK. The album, called Beacons of The Wilderness, was released in September 2023 and described as 'Unsettling, enchanting, and downright odd, Beacons of the Wilderness proves a deliciously eccentric winner' by Songlines Magazine (Billy Rough, 4 stars).
He has received positive reviews from The Guardian, Folk Radio UK and A Closer Listen amongst others and been played on BBC 6Music.

“A shivering seabed of sound, haunted by barely there vocals and stitched together with lo-fi production.”
— THE GUARDIAN
“Experimental lo-fi folk music at it's very best.”
— LEFTLION MAGAZINE
“An evocatively curated and wonderfully weird album.”
— SONGLINES MAGAZINE
“Reengaging with the old, he has created something truly unique.”
— KLOF MAGAZINE

www.benmcelroy.co.uk
www.facebook.com/benmcelroy4/ www.instagram.com/ben_mcelroy_music/ www.benmcelroy.bandcamp.com

JD ROBERTS
Master of the ambient pastoral, and another folk-inspired ambient sound artist, Roberts weaves intricate nature-infused electronic soundscapes of deep forests and lonely seashores, through which melancholic woodwinds wander wistfully. Calm, relaxing, yet darkly mysterious, Roberts' blend of the electronic, the natural and the acoustic is sure to transport you to other worlds.