About this concert
Bridget St. John visits the UK in September 2018 for a short tour. The tour begins with an appearance at Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham, on September 2nd. Bridget then visits some of the UK's intimate acoustic venues, including the John Peel Centre, Stowmarket, before concluding the tour with two shows in Ireland.\nThe late John Peel helped to launch Bridget's musical career and her first three albums were released on his Dandelion label in the late 1960s. Bridget and John's widow, Sheila Ravenscroft, have been friends since 1969.\nAccompanying Bridget for the first half of the tour, including here at the John Peel Centre, will be cellist Sarah Smout. They met for the first time when they were recording with Michael Chapman and BJ Cole in Wales earlier this year.\nThe two women immediately became friends and discovered a mutual appreciation for each other's music and decided they would have to play together.\nSupport from Tilly Moses\nTilly Moses is a mandolin player and singer songwriter from Suffolk, now based in York. She has been performing all over the country since the age of just 13, supporting some of the best-loved folk acts in the UK, and recently released her long awaited debut album Alight & Adrift, to incredible critical acclaim.\nTilly's carefully crafted songs address subjects as diverse as climate change, gender inequality, apathy, love, and leaving home, and she delivers them with an extraordinarily powerful, passionate vocal style, and a colourful stage presence.\nLicensed bar.
Show More
Find a place to stay
Bandsintown Merch
Circle Hat
$25.0 USD
Live Collage Sweatshirt
$45.0 USD
Rainbow T-Shirt
$30.0 USD
Circle Beanie
$20.0 USD
Easily follow all your favorite artists by syncing your music
Sync Music
Share Event
Bridget St. John Biography
Bridget St. John is a singer with a distinctively deep and somewhat melancholy voice. She learnt piano and viola as a child in London, and guitar while a student at Sheffield University, from which she graduated in 1968. Her "To B. without a hitch" / "Autumn Lullaby" (1969) was one of the first two singles released by Dandelion Records, John Peel's label. Ask Me No Questions - including the earlier single, and sparingly produced by Peel - was the label's first LP.
The follow-up, the more highly regarded Songs For The Gentle Man, was produced by Ron Geesin. Commercial success did not follow critical acclaim, and St. John lay low for some time, reemerging in the nineties and (as of 2004) continuing to perform.
Aside from work under her own name, St. John has also recorded with Kevin Ayers and Robin Frederick. Several of St. John's earlier LPs were released as CDs in the 1990s by See For Miles Records.
There is another recording artist named Bridget St. John in Seattle, Washington, USA, who has since changed her stage name to "Sweet Punch" to avoid confusion with this Bridget St. John.
Read MoreThe follow-up, the more highly regarded Songs For The Gentle Man, was produced by Ron Geesin. Commercial success did not follow critical acclaim, and St. John lay low for some time, reemerging in the nineties and (as of 2004) continuing to perform.
Aside from work under her own name, St. John has also recorded with Kevin Ayers and Robin Frederick. Several of St. John's earlier LPs were released as CDs in the 1990s by See For Miles Records.
There is another recording artist named Bridget St. John in Seattle, Washington, USA, who has since changed her stage name to "Sweet Punch" to avoid confusion with this Bridget St. John.
Follow artist