Forest Folk and Roots present STEViE SIMPSON this Friday (July 19). Known as one bloke, one mandolin, Stevie has been playing regularly at motorcycle rallies and festivals all over the UK since 2000 receiving some great reviews and picking up new fans at every gig.
His music is gutsy, edgy and raw - a hardcore, barstool troubadour - with a voice as raw as cigarettes and single malt in a backstreet bar late on a Saturday night.
Playing a mixture of original country and folk from his back-catalogue of 6 studio albums – his sound is a bit rootsy, a little bit bluesy and for those that like 'something they know', well, you may well get the occasional bit of that as well.
He has played alongside the likes of Status Quo, Jethro Tull, Dave Edmunds, Dr Feelgood, The Bad Shepherds, The Levellers, The Damned, The Stranglers, Fun Loving Criminals, Wilko Johnson, Hawkwind and John Otway.
For a number of years he has, amongst many gigs, regularly played/compered gigs for the National Association for Bikers with Disabilities (NABD) at their rallies and in 2010 became a patron.
Support comes from Leon C, a young contemporary folk singer songwriter based in Birmingham. After 9 years of playing guitar with classical training, Leon began mixing his love for poetry and vintage music with his more modern influences to create poetically inflected, contemporary folk music.
Advance tickets for the show at The College Arms in Cranfield are £10 (£5 for students) and you can get them here
Tickets on the door are £12 and £6. Doors open at 7.30pm.
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