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Suzanne Vega + John Smith

Suzanne Vega + John Smith

Thu 10 Feb 2022–Tue 15 Feb 2022

Thursday 10 February 2022 | BRIGHTON Theatre Royal
Friday 11 February 2022 | BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
Saturday 12 February 2022 | LIVERPOOL Philharmonic
Tuesday 15 February 2022 | LONDON Barbican

Suzanne Vega will celebrate the release of An Evening of New York Songs and Stories (Cooking Vinyl) with a run of European and UK dates in a tour co-produced by Serious and Kilimanjaro.

In anticipation of this tour, Vega exclaimed, "I am excited to share these songs about my hometown, the city I love, joined by the band with which I recorded An Evening of New York Songs and Stories."

On An Evening of New York Songs and Stories, Vega revisits some of her most New York-centric repertoire in a stunning live recording on which she is backed by longtime guitarist, Gerry Leonard, bassist Jeff Allen and keyboardist Jamie Edwards. Recorded at New York City’s famed Café Carlyle in early 2019, the album includes both familiar songs like 'Luka' and 'Tom’s Diner' and deep cuts from her catalogue like 'Frank and Ava' and 'Ludlow Street'. The mix of repertoire also features 'New York Is My Destination' from Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers, Vega’s one woman play about the Southern gothic novelist Carson  McCullers, and a cover of her late friend Lou Reed’s 'Walk on the Wild Side'.

Widely regarded as one of the foremost songwriters of her generation, Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s. Since the release of her self-titled, critically acclaimed 1985 debut album, she has written and recorded numerous songs that have become part of the contemporary music vernacular, including 'Luka', certainly the only hit song ever written from the perspective of an abused boy, 'Marlene on the Wall', a surprise hit in the UK and 'Tom’s Diner', a strange little a cappella piece that was remixed by U.K.  electronic dance duo 'DNA' and became a major club hit. Her albums, including her self-titled debut, the follow up, Solitude Standing and 99.9F have sold millions of copies.

Bearing the stamp of a masterful storyteller who "observes the world with a clinically poetic eye," Suzanne’s songs have always tended to focus on city life, ordinary people and real world subjects. Notably succinct and understated, Suzanne Vega’s work is immediately recognizable, as utterly distinct and thoughtful as it was when her voice was first heard on the radio over 30 years ago.

www.suzannevega.com

Album: https://svega.lnk.to/NYSAS

John Smith will open the show - one of the finest British folk guitarists and songwriters working today. Taking his cue from Richard Thompson and John Martyn, John has evolved a transatlantic blend of fingerstyle and slide guitar techniques, and has released eight albums with over 50 million Spotify streams

There’s something wonderfully unforced about both his playing and his vocals...in the weight of experience that he brings to his songs...it’s rare these days to find an audience so wrapped up in a performance

The Independent

You’re smiling even as tears catch in your throat

MOJO

A Serious and Kilimanjaro presentation by arrangement with Solo

Select Date and Time

Thu 10 February
Door time / 8:00pm

Tickets

£37.90 + booking fee

Fri 11 February
Stage time / 8:00pm

Tickets

£32.50 - £37.50

Sat 12 February
Stage time / 8:00pm

Tickets

£32- £42

Tue 15 February
Stage time / 7:30pm

Tickets

£30 - £39.50