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| 5/5/2012 | Wath Festival |
| 10/5/2012 | Abingdon – The Unicorn Theatre |
| 17/5/2012 | Glossop – The Oakwood |
| 18/5/2012 | Hyde – The Verge |
| 18/5/2012 | Oldham – Shaw Playhouse |
| 26/5/2012 | Frome – The Archangel |
| 30/5/2012 | Bath Fringe Festival |
| 7/6/2012 | Bristol – Colston Hall |
| 9/6/2012 | Wimborne Folk Festival |
“An amazing, amazing record, the kind of thing that gives modern folk a good name.” Thank you Zeitgeist! Read the whole review at www.the-rocker.co.uk
A big thanks to everyone who came along to the gigs this month. We had a lovely time playing and singing for you and hope to be back soon. Don’t forget to keep in touch on the old social media! J x
Jennifer had an excellent time in Belfast supporting Iain Archer at the Songwriters Festival – so many great songwriters! More shows coming up next week in Bristol, Bath and Twickenham…. check the Gigs page for details
Jennifer has just been asked to perform at the Frome Folk Festival next weekend. See gig list for details.
Jennifer is looking forward to returning to the Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival at the end of February. This year she will be supporting fellow Snow Patrol musician and fabulous songwriter Iain Archer.
The January edition of Acoustic magazine includes a lovely review of Jennifer’s gig with Beth Porter at the Barrel House in Totnes.
Co-written with Boo Hewerdine, BALTIMORE is a duet from Merry-Go-Round featuring Boo on lead vocals, Jennifer on harp and vocals and Darrell Scott on dobro, and makes for a lovely alternative Christmas single.Download ‘Baltimore’ today MONDAY 5th DECEMBER and help us to enter the Itunes charts!
Jennifer and producer Boo Hewerdine join Trevor Dann at Proper Music to chat about their collaboration on Merry-Go-Round, and Jennifer plays three songs from the album live in the studio.
Tune in to Radio 2 to hear Jennifer in session with Bob Harris this Sat/Sunday 4TH DECEMBER. Show starts at midnight, Jennifer will be on about 1am. Or you can Listen again in the week. Details here
‘Baltimore’ gets its first play on Radio 2 at the end of the Bob Harris show last week
The new deluxe album from Snow Patrol ‘Fallen Empires’ includes a DVD from the Reworked tour at The Royal Albert Hall featuring Jennifer on electric harp, beginning with her harp solo (also the title music) with Gary Lightbody on ‘The Finish Line’ as well as ‘You Could Be Happy’… what a night!
Watch ‘The Finish Line’
The Celtic Music Radio Album of the Week commencing Saturday 12th November is Merry-Go-Round!!
Jennifer was invited in for a chat while she was up in Glasgow… If you mssed the broadcasts you can hear the interview again here
Jennifer is very much looking forward to opening for fabulous Irish songwriter Declan O’Rourke in November for shows in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Irvine . See the gig page for further details.
“A brilliant new album…” Jennifer is very pleased to receive a 4 star review in the September edition of Maverick. See the reviews page to read it in full and more reviews of Merry-Go-Round.
You can read it here
Jennifer plays the harp and sings Gillian Welch’s “One Little Song” in a garden shed! Watch here:
Another album review from Taplas in the Aug/Sep issue out now
Jennifer was delighted to meet photographer Bill Zygmant at his exhibition of iconic ’60’s and 70’s images in Bristol last week.
Bill donated the photograph of the female streakers for Merry-Go-Round’s CD booklet to illustrate the lyrics in ‘She Wore Red’ – “Like running naked for half a week’s wages ‘cross Westminster Bridge for a dare”.
Here is a picture of Jennifer and Bill together with the photograph in the background!
Netrhythms recently reviewed Merry-Go-Round. Read it here!
Jennifer’s scheduled appearance at this weekends Folk Club Weekender at The Village Pump in Trowbridge has been brought forward from Sunday 24th to Saturday 23rd July. Jennifer will take to the stage at 8pm.
Jennifer is very excited to announce that she will be doing a session for the legendary Bob Harris (OBE) later in the year!
Jennifer is pleased to be representing the UK Songwriting Festival, in partnership with Burnsong, at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on 23rd August 2011.
Look out for reviews of the album this month in fRoots, R2 and Properganda (page 13) and online we have also found:
Now available everywhere! Merry-Go-Round is Pick of the Month on the Proper Music Store at amazon.co.uk, and is available from HMV, and to download from Itunes, Napster, Play.com and more. (But please remember that more of you’re money will be going back where it’s due if you buy direct from the website!)
Thank you to everyone who came on the 7th July and helped make the album launch a great success!! We managed to film the show so look out for some you tube clips coming soon…
To celebrate the release of Jennifer’s new album Merry-Go-Round, she will be hosting a launch party concert at The Chapel Arts Centre in Bath on Thursday 7th July. She will be joined on stage by producer Boo Hewerdine, Beth Porter on cello & vocals and Josh Clark on percussion. There will also be a special appearance from local legend Andy Davis.
Doors open at 7.30 so come and have a drink and chill out to the gramophone sounds of Nick ‘The Wind Up Merchant’ before the show. Advance £8.00 Door £10.00 More details at www.chapelarts.org
Jennifer Crook: vocals, acoustic guitar, harp
Boo Hewerdine: acoustic guitar, vocals
Beth Porter: cello, ukulele, vocals
Josh Clark: percussion
Andy Davis: piano
Jennifer appeared on Keith Warmington’s radio show on BBC Bristol Monday 4th July. For a limited time, you can hear Jennifer’s interview here. (Jennifer appears at approx 2 hours 10 minutes if you don’t want to listen to the whole show)
Read Spiral Earth’s review of Jennifer’s new album, Merry-Go-Round.
Jennifer recently took part in a Songs From The Shed session. Watch the footage here
Bath-based singer songwriter and harp player Jennifer Crook recorded her new solo album “Merry-Go-Round” in Glasgow with producer and hit songwriter Boo Hewerdine. The album, featuring guest vocals from Eddi Reader and a duet with Nashville’s Darrell Scott, will be released in the UK on 11th July 2011 by Proper.
Described as ‘spellbinding’ by Acoustic magazine, Jennifer’s blend of contemporary folk, americana and pop is delightfully difficult to pigeonhole. Jennifer has toured throughout Britain and Europe with many top artists and bands. She was a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician finalist, and recently performed with Snow Patrol throughout their ‘Reworked’ tour.
“…a very special performance from a lady who will definitely make waves”. Maverick 2011