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Emily Portman & Rob Harbron both have award-winning reputations as performers, composers and recording artists. Now they have formed an inspired new collaboration in which they delve into English folk traditions, creating a boldly exposed and intricately woven contemporary folk sound. Emily (voice, banjo & piano) is best known as an original songwriter and for her work with acclaimed folk band The Furrow Collective. Rob (concertina, guitar, voice) tours with Leveret, Fay Hield, Jon Boden and many more, being in great demand as one the finest multi-instrumentalists in the UK. Together they take a fresh approach to exploring the traditional music they are both steeped in, drawing out the contemporary relevance in their repertoire with master craftsmanship. Emily?s spellbinding storytelling and unaffected voice combines with Rob?s sympathetic musicality to create an unforgettable and intimate live experience, brimming with a focused subtlety, depth and a shared love of the music. "English folk comes no more enchanted than Emily Portman?s delicately sung tales" The Guardian "Rob Harbron is a musical hound, showing an endless energy and a fine nose for a melody" Songlines Three ticket prices - We're committed to bringing high quality roots music to Cambridge at affordable prices , and as such our standard advance ticket price is £10. However, if you'd like to see the artist take home a little more (over 80% of our ticket profit goes to artists), then there is now an option to pay slightly more (£12) if you are able to. There are also a very limited number of no-questions-asked concession tickets (£8). If tickets remain then they will be sold on-the-door, but at a higher price.
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Andrew
November 5th 2023
Really excellent night we really enjoyed it great to hear their Knowledge of folk music too 🙂
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Emily Portman Biography

Emily Portman is a singer, writer and concertina player originating from Glastonbury and hailed 'one of the new British folk scene's most beguiling presences' (Uncut). Her BBC Folk award-winning album ‘Hatchling’ is described as “Marvelous” (The Observer) ‘Eerily magnificent’ (fROOTS) and “One of the year’s most distinctive folk releases” (Songlines). With her debut album 'The Glamoury' also gaining her two BBC Folk Award nominations, Emily is fast gaining a reputation for her ‘remarkable and original’ songwriting (The Observer). Not only has her music propelled Emily onto the front cover of FRoots, she has received widespread international radio-play and tours the UK extensively, recently supporting The Be Good Tanyas in a sell-out tour culminating at London’s Barbican. Inspired by the darker underbelly of folklore and balladry, Emily weaves harmony-rich narratives alongside Lucy Farrell (viola) and Rachel Newton (harp). 'The raw stuff of the great ballads' Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
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