Somewhere
between Jazz, Folk, Chanson and Americana there’s an area of music that
doesn’t have a name. With a cartographer’s attention to detail, Kirsty McGee has spent the past ten years and five albums exploring and mapping this place.
Honed over
twenty years of wandering and touring, McGee's songs show the light
touch of someone with an instinctive reflex for bringing together words
and music. Gentle, and with the bittersweet edge of experience, her
voice speaks directly from an open heart, and her rich, dark style
continues to defy categorisation.
McGee is fan-funding her sixth album Contraband,
due to be released in the Autumn of 2012. The public are being invited
to donate in exchange for albums, handwritten lyric books and portrait photography by the artist. An intimate collection of honest, raw and intelligent songs, Contraband
lays bare a delicate instrumental style that is new to Kirsty, and sees
her more musically and emotionally exposed than ever before. Over the
years McGee has shared the stage with artists such as Karine Polwart,
Eddi Reader and Suzanne Vega, but for this album she sits alone in the
centre of sparse and subtle guest appearances from International names
as yet kept secret.
kirsty mcgee - contraband from hobopop recordings on Vimeo.
McGee takes to
the road again this Spring, with new songs and new collaborators.
Concentrating for this tour on interactions with her contemporaries, she
will visit all four corners of the UK & Scotland with Kentucky
songwriter Brigid Kaelin before taking off for Europe with well-beloved Manchester songstress Becca Williams. Manchester’s Quiet Loner will also share the stage with McGee in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor as part of his ‘Quiet Night In’ tour.
McGee will be playing songs from her forthcoming album as well as selected material from her previous five records.
For full details of the venues & tourdates please visit www.kirstymcgee.com.
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