From California, David Nigel Lloyd Performs to support UK's Bert Jansch Foundation

Two noted singer-guitarists, one from far Northern California and one from Leeds, team up with one extraordinary guitar to demonstrate the deep influence the legendary Bert Jansch exerted on their own music.

David Nigel Lloyd, 68, lives in sparsely populated and highly flammable northern California. He has performed in acoustic venues throughout Canada and the United States. Born in Kenya, he lived briefly on the Wirral when he was a boy. DNL plays guitar in modified lute tuning and the 8-stringed octar in standard octar tuning. Spyros Hytiris of Greek Public Radio Corfu called DNL “an iconoclastic loner of acid folk.”

Chris Brain, 29, is currently touring the UK to support his debut album Bound to Rise. Recorded live to tape, the music of Nick Drake and John Martyn, as well as Jansch, are obvious starting points. The album charted at #22 on the Official UK folk charts.

When DNL was 17, he discovered Bert Jansch's classic album Rosemary Lane and vowed one day to record an album just like it. In 2018, in commemoration of what would have have been Bert's 75th birthday, the Bert Jansch Foundation sent five Yamaha LL guitars round the world in search of players whom Bert Jansch had influenced. This is the Foundation's still ongoing Around the World in 80 Plays program.

As instructed, DNL videoed himself playing his Song for Bert on the LL guitar that visited him in 2019. Then came the lockdown and, DNL realized, his opportunity to fulfill his fifty year-old vow. The guitar would be with him for six months. Of Service in Rosemary Lane, DNL's sixth album, was hailed by the Hollywood Digest as “one of 2022's best releases.”

Category: Live Music | Folk Music

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Advance tickets: GBP 5.0