FOLKROOM PRESENTS: Chris Wood

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Sunday 16th March 2025 | 2025 | 6pm Onwards

Peggy's Skylight | Nottingham 

Tickets: £18

* Doors at 6pm
* Performance from 7pm

Chris Wood is "the finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the British folk scene since Richard Thompson" (The Guardian). This rare Nottingham show will see the incisive, uncompromising artist perform an intimate showcase of his rich and moving folk songs.

"the finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the
British folk scene since Richard Thompson" – The Guardian

"Idiosyncratic, thoughtful and (and I don't use this word lightly)
essential listening" – Folk Witness

In a world of soundbites and distractions, Chris Wood is a truth seeker. His writing is permeated with love and wry intelligence, uplifting and challenging as he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after-anotherness of life. Tom Robinson and Chris Difford are fans, while Stick In The Wheel and The Unthanks look to him as an influence. Winner of 6 BBC Folk Awards, he's played with The Royal Shakespeare Company and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg and Martin Carthy. A wise and soulful craftsman, his concerts are a cliché-free zone.

Chris Wood started out as a choirboy and much of his music bears the influence of those years spent with the likes of Bach, Handel, Gibbons and Boyce: he describes the album Handmade Life as "church music with drums."

Self-taught on guitar and violin, he is a lifelong autodidact — and his independent streak shines through in his composition and studio work. Always direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity. His work is typified by his trust in the space music can create and a gift for lyrical understatement. He cites his major influence as "Anon".

The much-missed FRoots magazine once said: "Chris Wood might be the Ken Loach of songwriting. Very political, but at the same time full of compassion, and he grows sharper and more acute with each passing album. He's good, quite probably the very best we have today, and we need him more than ever." We couldn't agree more.

We're thrilled to welcome Chris Wood to Peggy's for a gig that should prove one of the highlights of Nottingham's folk music year. Performing as part of Folkroom's monthly series showcasing the very best of modern folk, this is an opportunity to see one of the nation's most incisive and uncompromising singer-songwriters in an intimate and inclusive setting.
"If I had a towel I'd throw it in" – Chris Difford (Squeeze)

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