Framework Music Night: An Audience Without Jake Thackray

An Audience without Jake Thackray celebrates the life, songs and wonderful wordsmithery of the great Yorkshire chansonnier, Jake Thackray, a unique talent, whose songs are full of poetry, wit, irreverence and humanity. He became known to millions through his regular appearances in the 1960s and 1970s on programmes such as Braden’s Week and That’s Life. Since his death in 2002 there has been growing recognition of his genius and a resurgence of interest in his work, with admirers including Ralph McTell, Jarvis Cocker, Alex Turner, Don Black, Thea Gilmore, and Cerys Matthews. John Watterson is the UK’s leading performer of Jake’s songs. As Fake Thackray he has toured with Fairport Convention, as well as performing at Latitude, Cropredy and the Edinburgh Fringe, plus numerous radio appearances. John’s show will include many Jake classics (Sister Josephine, On Again On Again, The Bantam Cock and others), anecdotes from John’s research into Jake’s life for the recently published biography as well as some of the ‘lost’ Thackray songs John has rediscovered and recorded on his CD, The Lost Will and Testament of Jake Thackray. To book please visit Buy Framework Music: An Audience Without Jake Thackray Tickets online – Framework Knitters Museum A guaranteed sell-out and so early booking is strongly recommended. To discover more please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QCPdlaGD_o and www.fakethackray.com