Bridie Jackson and the Arbour

Bridie Jackson and the Arbour
Origin Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Genres Contemporary folk, acoustic
Labels Debt Records, Amazing Record Co.
Website www.bridieandthearbour.com
Members
  • Bridie Jackson
  • Carol Bowden
  • Jenny Nendick
  • Rachel Cross

Bridie Jackson and The Arbour are a four piece contemporary folk/acoustic band based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Their debut album, Bitter Lullabies was released in January 2012 to a sold out album launch at The Sage Gateshead (Hall Two). They partnered with Debt Records to release two singles in 2013: the double A-Side Scarecrow / All You Love Is All You Are in February, and Prolong in June.

The band's second album, New Skin, was released on 5 May 2014, and received a 4-star review in The Mail on Sunday.

They were the winners of the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition 2013[1] and performed 5 times over the weekend on different stages including the Acoustic, Avalon and Bandstand stages.[2][3]

The band has received play on BBC Radio One, Radio Two, Radio Three and Radio 6 Music, and also on Amazing Radio. They have featured live in session on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends show with Clive Anderson,[4] BBC Radio 3's In Tune,[5] for Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music,[6] and on Dermot O'Leary's show on Radio Two.[7]

In February 2013 they were awarded an Arts Council England grant for their Music In Museums[8] project with events running in Summer 2013. In the same year, they also received a Musician's Benevolent Fund Emerging Excellence Award[9] and won a City Music Foundation award.[10]

In the summer of 2013 they were featured as The Guardian's New Band Up North,[11] and in The Telegraph's New Faces column.

In 2014, Jackson was commissioned to write the music for a new opera for Streetwise Opera. [12]

In February 2015 Bridie Jackson and The Arbour received the Women Make Music award from the PRS for Music Foundation. [13]

In April 2015 the band released a new single, Far From The Tree, and donated some of the proceeds to the charity The Epilepsy Society. [14]

Prior to establishing the current four-piece line-up, Jackson performed regularly as a solo artist and with a changing collective of musicians, under a variety of band names. Musicians who performed regularly with Jackson, and featured on early recordings included: Nathalie Stern, Tom Cronin, Sofia De Castro, Alexandra Healy, Ed Alcroft and Eleanor Mooney.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22198071
  2. ↑ http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/information/emerging-talent-competition-performing/2013-winners-blog
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22984121
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r4zmw
  5. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2y9s
  6. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047kzhh
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yhtdc
  8. ↑ http://musicinmuseums.tumblr.com/
  9. ↑ https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/emerging-musicians/talent-programme/our-artists/the-arbour
  10. ↑ http://www.citymusicfoundation.org/2013/08/28/inaugural-awards-announced/
  11. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jun/03/bridie-jackson-and-the-arbour
  12. ↑ http://www.streetwiseopera.org/river-keeper
  13. ↑ http://www.prsformusicfoundation.com/Grantees/Bridie-Jackson
  14. ↑ http://www.bridieandthearbour.com/archives/1027
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