Press Pack ’25
Please find here a compilation of short film clips of the band playing live, including some examples of the projected original animations we use to accompany the music. Also a biography and reviews. Jonathan Day Collective Biography 2024 “Jonathan Day is a musician of movement and of place – an artist who, whether through the...
2024 summer tour : )
Delighted to be heading back out again this summer : ) Hope to see you somewhere along the road! Xx
New video and press – ‘in a Garden of Stones’
/https://youtu.be/tx50eKLRB5M?si=G6peEo7tP0GTOYjD A lovely consideration of our new video from Alex Gallacher at Folk Radio https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2024/01/jonathan-day-collective-in-a-garden-of-stones/
Festival in the Desert – playing to nomadic tribes-people and travellers, deep in the Sahara
‘Tamarisk and the Raven’ – mainstage at Festival in the Desert – under a full moon and a lunar eclipse She moves through the fair – representing the music of these sea washed islands with fiddle, bagpipes and voice Press piece All photos courtesy of Jonathan Day Interviews & Guest Posts An archaeology of the...
Summer Festival Films ’23
LANDED – lovely award winning festival in the Welsh mountains on the headwaters of the Wye. Trio playing the headline slot Saturday night on the Magus Stage. WORKHOUSE STEAMPUNK WELLNESS FESTIVAL Shrewsbury
‘Sakura’ new album release
Folk Radio review of Sakura by Thomas Blake Sakura is an album recorded in the Welsh hills but rooted in Japanese and East Asian culture. This isn’t as contradictory as it sounds: the Japanese religious experience emphasises the primacy of nature. Shinto beliefs, in particular, are based on a subtle animism. In Shinto, everything is...
Playing Camp Bestival mainstage – 19 August 2022
We’re off to Weston in Shropshire to play at Camp Bestival : ) So happy to be invited by Sarah at Twisted Agency to play at this iconic – but most importantly fun – festival. We’re on Mainstage Friday early afternoon and at the Carvanserai stage on Sunday – at 3 40 in the afternoon....
New Single – out 19th August 2022 to coincide with our Bestival performances. The first release from forthcoming album ‘Sakura’.
Listen here : ) https://jonathanday.bandcamp.com/track/isolde Isolde is a love story – it’s autobiographical (always a treacherous area of inspiration : ) and the story I lived has strong echoes and resonances with the Arthurian story of Isolde, Tristan and King Mark. But that’s enough said – I’ll let the song tell its story : )...