Folk and Americana duo of songwriter Sarah Gillespie and guitarist Chris Montague play The Stables.
Sarah Gillespie and Chris Montague play The Stables on Friday 6 November, their first Milton Keynes date since they recorded together. The set comes from a stripped-back album they made in a cottage on the shores of Loch Fyne in Scotland, following a run of intimate duo shows in California. It's a raw, story-rich collection that pulls from folk, Americana, beat poetry and rootsy blues, pairing Gillespie's songwriting with Montague's guitar work across electric and acoustic strings, pedal steel and mandolin.
Gillespie is an Anglo-American songwriter and published poet whose writing has drawn comparisons to Bob Dylan. The Guardian called her 'an incandescent presence with superior lyrics', The Times likened her to 'Dylan on amphetamines' and MOJO described her as a 'beat poet adventurer'. She's been touring internationally for 15 years and has appeared on BBC arts programmes including Woman's Hour and Loose Ends.
Montague is held as one of the UK's most distinctive guitar voices, called 'The UK's greatest jazz guitarist since John McLaughlin' by Marlbank and compared by Jazzwise to Tom Waits's guitarist Mark Ribot, with plaudits from Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Between the two of them, the set covers a lot of ground — the folk and Americana of the new record, the beat poetry and rootsy blues that run through it, and the range of instruments Montague brings to the stage.
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It's a late one: the show starts at 8:45pm at The Stables, and tickets are £19 including the booking fee.
