This year, our Saturday evening musical guests are The Bookshop Band – the offspring of an artistic love-affair between composers Ben Please and Beth Porter and a multi-award winning independent bookshop in Wigtown.
They write and perform songs inspired by books, influenced by hundreds of authors from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman, and have released 13 studio albums featuring many of the authors they have worked with. This summer they will be releasing their latest studio album, Emerge, Return, produced by and featuring Pete Townshend.
“I am enchanted, such variation and delicacy… such latent power, really great work. It reminded me of my days listening to Sandy Denny and Fairport [Convention] and The Incredible String Band… – a great discovery and inspiration.”
Pete Townshend
