KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT = ***NEW COLLABORATION***

 

***NEW COLLABORATION*** Available Live Touring Dates Feb/March 2025   KRIS DREVER & CHRIS STOUT   Kris Drever and Chris Stout are icons of the Scottish roots culture and two of the most powerful contemporary voices to sing out of it in the last quarter century.    Both come from the Northern Isles (Kris from Orkney and Chris from Shetland) and represent the strength of those identities in the music they inhabit. Inherited through childhood, family and osmosis, you can hear the wind whistling through the strings, the rhythms washing against your animal self and the old stories whispering out from the ingleneuk.    In Glasgow in 2019 the two found themselves to be neighbours in the West End and began meeting up and playing music together. Both musicians found a sound of great interest and emotional power in these little get-togethers, and it soon became a more regular happening.    Now they’ve decided to share the experience with a wider audience. Come and hear songs and tunes you know and some you don’t, shining through the unique prism of these two ‘one of a kind’ musicians.   Kris is a guitarist, singer and founder member of the trio Lau. He’s a multi award winning singer songwriter and has played and written with a galaxy of stars (Eddi Reader, Roddy Woomble, Mark Knopfler, Kate Rusby, Jack Bruce, Karine Polwart…).   Chris is a virtuoso violinist, viola player and composer, founder member of the legendary Shetland band ‘Fiddlers Bid’ and long-time collaborator of the genius harpist Catriona McKay. He has performed in venues as storied as the Sydney Opera House and has composed for and performed with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and a great many more.   Video Link     Video Link     For available Live touring dates in late Feb - mid March 2025 please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk CHRIS STOUT KRIS DREVER

Liz Stringer, Arguably Australia's Finest Female Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Available Dates...

 Liz Stringer, Arguably Australia's Finest Female Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist Touring Dates plus festival dates 26th January – July, 2024

Liz Stringer is one of Australia’s most admired and versatile songwriters and instrumentalists. A venerated guitarist and vocalist, her notoriously powerful live performances and melodically rich, story-based songs have earned her a unique place among the most important Australian songwriters of the modern era. Liz Stringer has performed all over Australia and the world for her own musical projects aswell as being a session musician for countless acts, most recently including performing with Midnight Oil for their final ever tour in Australia, North America, Europe, UK and New Zealand. 2019 saw the release of collaborative project Dyson Stringer Cloher's self-titled debut album through Melbourne's Milk records to wide media acclaim and a sold-out headline tour and Stringer was honoured at Woodford Folk Festival as an 'emerging legend of Australian song' with a performance of selections from her back catalogue by her musical peers.  Lizs' sixth studio album - First Time Really Feeling - was released in April 2021. This ten-song collection documents a recent personal reckoning and metamorphosis Liz experienced while living in North America just prior to the pandemic. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced by Chris Stringer, known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics, this is regarded as Stringer’s seminal work to-date and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy, profound change and her recent path to self-acceptance. Between rock stylings, knee-buckling ballads and a world-class lyrical and story-telling prowess, Liz writes affectingly from a range of perspectives. Any fan will testify to the strength of her live performances, and this album is arranged much like one of her iconic shows such is the power and intent of her arresting vocal delivery.The album has been nominated for two AIR awards including Best Independent Album, APRA song of the year, Music Victoria award for best Solo Act and debuted at no. 14 on the ARIA charts the week of release. Emotional, unflinching,expansive and revealing - this album is unmistakably Australian music at its finest, and is, without question, Liz Stringer at her best.

For Live touring dates: January - July 2024 plus festival appearances please contact: gail@laughingdogmusic.co.uk Liz Stringer website