DEBUT SOLO ALBUM PRESS RELEASE!
Celebrating album launch day!! Friday 10th June 2016.
YORKSHIRE’S MULTI-TALENTED ALICE EMBRACES ENGLISH & AMERICAN FOLK TRADITIONS IN IMPRESSIVE DEBUT ALBUM
As played on The Mike Harding Folk Show, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke,
BBC Hereford & Worcester; BBC Lancashire; BBC Radio Leeds (live session), Swindon FM, Brum Radio, Sheffield Live Radio, Northern Sky Radio, Nova FM
‘Fantastic. This Yorkshire lass sings beautifully. She’s also a great keyboards, whistle and tenor guitar player and this debut album is chock full of great songs and tunes.’ – Mike Harding
‘Her voice shines out of the music with the clarity and sympathy for the folk canon of a Sandy Denny. Alice displays such quality and clarity of vision that we suspect we’ll be hearing a lot more of her soon.’ – 4* R2 Magazine
“It’s all rather lovely and seductive yet menacing and strange –an unusually powerful debut.” – 4* Songlines
‘A beautiful, thoughtfully sequenced disc with year-best contender writ all over it. An enviably proficient singer and multi-instrumentalist, this is a magnificent showcase for her versatility’ – fRoots
“There are so many highlights here – this record sets musical standards few established artists could match.. Just stunning.” – Living Tradition Magazine
Multi-talented Yorkshirewoman Alice Jones is nothing if not versatile – an Appalachian and longsword dancer, an instrumentalist excelling on keyboards, whistle, clarinet, tenor guitar and, as her solo debut album proves, possessing a wholly distinctive voice just made for folk song.
The Ripponden-based artist has a background deeply rooted in the English folk tradition, having first been exposed to folk music by her parents as a “babe in arms”. But she also has a keen interest in American folk song, particularly the vast collections of Cecil Sharp and Frank & Anne Warner.
Photo by Elly Lucas
Her debut album Poor Strange Girl, to be released June 10, is a 12-track transatlantic melting pot mix of light and shade – mostly showcasing her arrangements of traditional and more contemporary songs but including a series of self-penned tunes.
Shining through is her knack of getting right to the heart and soul of a song; a deliberate, expressive tone and heartfelt precision that shows a genuine connection with her chosen material.
“Perhaps the most immediately striking aspect of Alice’s artistry is that she’s a significantly impressive singer. Her voice has real personality and stature with unpretentious forthright Yorkshire relish.”- fRoots
“Her voice is clear, unpretentious and blessed with an appropriate Tyke-ish twang. – English Dance and Song Magazine
‘Superb, sincere vocals; meltingly fine music’ – Verity Sharp, BBC Radio 3
June 23rd – Green Note Café, Camden Town
June 25th – Peel Park Hotel, Accrington
August 5th-7th – Dartmoor Folk Festival
With more live dates to be announced soon.
alicejonesmusic.com
