Elizabeth & Jameson

We are delighted to be providing support for this special concert at the unique and historical Roman Theatre in St. Albans. We will open the show with a 30-minute support set. In the 50s and 60s Ewan MacColl along with Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger created the groundbreaking Radio Ballads broadcasts for the BBC Home Service covering a variety of subjects and using an audio documentary format to highlight the experiences of real people weaving the voices of rarely-heard communities with songs written from and about their recorded interviews. Almost half a century later, in 2006, a new set of Radio Ballads were commissioned by BBC Radio 2 using the same format but this time involving a whole team of stellar musicians, singers and songwriters from the folk/acoustic/roots music scene under the guiding hands and watchful eyes of producer John Leonard and musical director John Tams. Now three members of that team - Bob Fox, Jez Lowe and Julie Matthews - have put together a selection of songs from the 2006 new Radio Ballads for a special concert performance. Expect to be entertained and enlightened by songs of joy, love, hardship and humour.