Greetings from this newly home-based worker! I hope you’re all looking after yourself. Needless to say, the likelihood of any live gigs in the next few months is looking very slim indeed. I’m flattered to have got some lovely messages asking me to do some live streaming gigs – I do intend to do this in the coming weeks with a donations/tip jar page. I remember when I was a young kid in town with my mum, we saw a busker and I told my Mum that’s what I wanted to be when I grew up. I never imagined it would be quite like this…
Like many, I’ve enjoyed watching living room streaming gigs during this time and as a serial performance tart I am itching to get back at gigging, whatever form it may take! To be absolutely honest with you all, to lose my May tour is devastating. I was so looking forward to it as it has been a few years since I’ve done a UK solo tour and I’m not going to lie, it was a big part of my financial plans too and that brings a lot of stress too. Forgive the melodrama here, but I’ve needed time to process it and maybe even mourn the loss of it. But it’s time to move on! So I will see you in the coming weeks for some live gigs from my house to yours. Thanks so much to everyone for lovely messages and especially to my brilliant banjo students who it is a pleasure to teach (and shout out to Ian for suggesting skype lessons eight years ago – bloody good job you did!!).