Award-winning songwriter, novelist, and one of the busiest and most admired performers on the UK folk scene.

Jez Lowe is a much-travelled, much-covered singer and songwriter who has released twenty-plus albums of original songs over the last forty years, earning himself a loyal following along the way as well as a raft of awards and nominations. His songs have been recorded by over seventy of his peers, ranging from “old guard” acts like Fairport Convention, The Dubliners, Wizz Jones, Cherish The Ladies, The Tannahill Weavers, Gordon Bok, Mary Black and Bob Fox, to the newer breed pf performers like The Unthanks, Megson, The Young Uns and The Duhks. He was also a principal writer on the award-winning BBC Radio Ballads series and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio Four’s “Open Country” programme.

He continues to record and tour world-wide, sometimes solo, sometimes with his band The Bad Pennies, and in collaborations with fellow-artists such as James Keelaghan, Steve Tilston and The Pitmen Poets.

In addition to his work as a broadcaster and commentator, he will shortly be publishing the fifth in his series of novels inspired by the folk tradition and social history of his native North-East England.

Jez Lowe’s latest album, his fifteenth collection of original songs, entitled “Oubliette”, has received outstanding reviews from across the folk music world, and was hailed by Fatea Magazine as “destined to become a folk classic in the top echelons of Jez’s already illustrious and extensive canon.”

www.jezlowe.com

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