About this Event
The second night of the magical Red Velvet Summer Festival - an incredible double bill of Gabriel Moreno and Pearl Fish.
“Gabriel Moreno’s music is an offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond. I love it.” – Cerys Mathews, BBC Radio 6 Music
GABRIEL MORENO is a Gibraltarian poet and singer songwriter who has been performing for the past twenty years in Gibraltar, Peru, Italy, Spain, USA and the UK. In December 2019 he won the Introducing Stage at the Great British Folk Festival with his trio, featuring Adam Beattie on bass and keyboard player Ned Cartwright. He has ten poetry books published by Omicron and Orion in both Spanish and English. His folk songs are both poetic and political, mining the same rich seams as Leonard Cohen, Fabrizio De André and Georges Brassens. Moreno is also the curator of three acclaimed music and poetry nights in the London scene, nurturing new and established talent – ‘The Lantern Society’, ‘Poetry Mondays’ and ‘Notes from Underground’.
After releasing two albums, Love and Decadence and Farewell Belief on Amber Records, and EPs Poetical Resistance and The Moon is a Spider – all with his band The Quivering Poets – Moreno returns as a burning force of nature with his new solo album, ‘Whiskey With Angels’. Through these new songs he expertly explores deeply personal themes of the sacred and profane, struggle and joy, intoxication and enlightenment. The album was launched in December 2020 at the historic Royal Foundation of St Katharine, and has received rave reviews and airplay on BBC Radio 6 Music.
www.gabrielmoreno.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/gabrielmoreno
http://www.facebook.com/gabrielmorenopoetry
PEARL FISH is a songstress hailing from London’s waterways. Taking inspiration from the songwriters of the sixties and modern folk sidesteppers like Michael Kiwanuka, there is a poetic presence alongside the spirit of the music which invites you into a space that is simultaneously hopeful and melancholy. She has played on rooftops, pavements, and stages; from Small World Festival to Camden Assembly.
This summer she supports Rachel Sermanni on an out-of-doors tour with The Nest Collective, playing to folks round bonfires in Bristol, Brighton, Sheffield and London, over four days. Her new five track EP, Moves Through Matter, recorded with friends and musicians from all walks of life, is out on August 24th.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Royal Foundation of St Katharine, 2 Butcher Row, London, United Kingdom
GBP 20.00 to GBP 50.00