Bridget St. John has announced a short tour of the UK and Ireland in September 2018. The tour begins with an appearance at Moseley Folk Festival, Birmingham, on September 2nd following which she visits some of the U.K.’s intimate acoustic venues, including The John Peel Centre, Stowmarket, before concluding the tour with two shows in Ireland.
It was the late John Peel that helped to launch Bridget’s musical career and her first three albums were released on his Dandelion label in the late 1960s. Bridget and John’s widow, Sheila Ravenscroft, have been friends since 1969. During the 70’s Bridget released a series of albums and played concerts with the likes of Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers, as well as John Martyn and Michael Chapman who she credits as her ‘musical brothers’. She moved to New York in the summer of 1976 settling in Greenwich Village.
Accompanying Bridget for the first half of the tour will be cellist Sarah Smout. They met for the first time when they were recording with Michael Chapman and BJ Cole in Wales earlier this year. The two women immediately became friends and discovered a mutual appreciation for each other’s music and decided they would have to play together.