Don't Mourn - Organise! The Bristol Folk House

Name: Don't Mourn - Organise! The Bristol Folk House
Start: 2024-11-06T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-06T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Bristol Folk House

Schedule

Wed Nov 06 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Bristol Folk House | Bristol, EN

A tribute to the Swedish-American labour songwriter Joe Hill in words and music by Holly Carter.
'Don't Mourn - Organise!' is a live tribute to one of America's most prolific and influential musical troubadours. In this deeply touching and comprehensively researched show, Holly discusses everything from Joe Hill's upbringing in Sweden to his posthumous impact on music and activism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, as well as performing a number of significant songs from his expansive catalogue.
Holly Carter is a Bristol based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, specialising in fingerstyle guitar and pedal steel. Two time winner of Instrumentalist of the Year at the AMAUK awards, Holly is an in-demand session player and has performed with some of the most well respected names on the Folk, Americana and Blues circuits, including Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Martin Harley.
Doors 7.30pm
Show Starts 8pm