We will be bringing you a lot more on the new album from Jackie Oates The Spyglass & The Herringbone but in the meantime feast you ears on the title track and watch her new video for Can’t Be Sure below:
The Spyglass & The Herringbone is Jackie’s sixth studio album released via ECC Records on April 27th. The album will feature songs from the English folk tradition as well as original works of which the title track is one, written by band member Chris Sarjeant.
Production credits include Afro Celt Sound System/The Imagined Village’s Simon Emmerson, multi-BBC Folk Award nominee Ben Walker and Richard Evans, who also produced Jackie’s previous albums Lullabies and Saturnine. The album features performances by names from folk and mainstream music including Jim Moray, Andy Gangadeen, John Parker and Jack Rutter.
The release of The Spyglass & The Herringbone is supported by a tour which takes in dates not only in the UK but also in Belgium and Iceland. See below:
Tour Dates
01 May Folkworks Fiddles on Fire, Sage Gateshead
02 May Folkworks Fiddles on Fire, Sage Gateshead
15 May CC Gasthuis, Aarscott, Belguim
20 May Winchester Discovery Centre, Hampshire
22 May St. Pancras Old Church, London
24 May Bude & Stratton Folk Festival
25 May Bude & Stratton Folk Festival
26 May Exeter Phoenix, Devon
29 May The Forge at The Anvil, Basingstoke
30 May Finstock Village Hall, Chipping Norton
01 June Nettlebed Village Club, Oxfordshire
04 June The Arts Centre, Ormskirk
05 June Selby Town Hall, North Yorkshire
10 June VAKA Folk Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
11 June VAKA Folk Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
12 June VAKA Folk Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
13 June VAKA Folk Festival, Akureyri, Iceland
20 June Eroica Britannia, Bakewell
The Spyglass & The Herringbone is released on 27th April 2015 via ECC
Pre-order it here: http://eccrecords.co.uk/shop/the-spyglass-the-herringbone/