Cotswold-based singer-songwriter Ben Maggs will be in the area this Friday (Feb 19) evening, for a date at the College Arms Bar in Cranfield.
Ben – who recently sold out Stage 2 at The Stables – is back in the vicinity as part of a nationwide trek in support of his current long-player, Come as You Are.
Honest, raw, moving and uplifting are all fine traits in music making, but all too often are lacking from deliveries.
Luckily for visitors to the Forest Folk & Roots session, Ben has all the aforementioned by the bucketload.
As for that album? It has songs to take the listener on the journey made by Ben.
'Some songs speak of walks and dreams of day and dusk and night in the gentle Cotswold Isles...others of violent cabin and shore battering Highland storms or haunting shadowy nights wrapped by Skye's unforgiving Cuillin ridge; nomadic weeks with a guitar, living in a car with the sea for a bath, no maps and precious little underwear...
Okay, that's enough of that!
Contemporary folk, or folk pop? Who cares what you call his fallout, just make sure to be perched in the watering hole in plenty of time to catch him at work.
Doors open at 7.30pm and the music goes live at 8pm, with support from 16-year old Emily McGrath.
Tickets are £10, but students can cut that fee in half.
Visit www.forestfolkandroots.weebly.com for more.
