AR monthly concert with Vikki Clayton, Kevin & Rosie, and Don Mackay

Thursday 22 August, Collective Community Hub, 33 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington, 7:30 pm. Parking, bus and train nearby.

Entry: $15/$10 for members. Cash only (no eftpos facilities).

A Londoner by birth, Vikki Clayton got caught up in music early. By the age of 13, she was asking for a guitar and her recognised musical talent led her to the Trinity College London, and eventually an honours degree in Performing Arts. Although she started out singing English folk songs, she continued listening to rock and progressive rock and the rest, as they say, is history, from the folk rockers ‘Ragged Heroes’ to Fotheringay and Fairport Convention.

Vikki has also recorded eight solo albums with guests including John Giblin (Simple Minds), Martin Barre (Jethro Tull), and Liam Genochey (Steeleye Span), and sung with other folk luminaries, including Richard Thompson, Ralph McTell, and John Martyn. She can make you laugh, cry, rejoice and celebrate within the first set.

We are delighted that Vikki has made New Zealand one of her three current homes and are excited and honoured to have her as a guest at Acoustic Routes.

Kevin and Rosie sing traditional unaccompanied folk songs. When they met in the singing circle at Wellington Folk Festival, they already had a voice apiece, then they found their voices agreed with each other, and they have been singing harmony together ever since. Their repertoire is flavoured by Kev’s Sussex origins. Farming, songs of the sea, social commentary, history, thievery, and pretty little small birds, sung with feeling: real unadorned old-school trad.

Don Mackay is a Newtown based singer-songwriter best known as one third of “Don and The Divorcees”. His songs wander about the borders between folk, country and rock. He has been described as “angry old man shakes his fist at the clouds, and 3 chords”.