Atlantic Drifter Tour goes to Hong Kong
Flying out of Europe in the rain – like pushing through gray felt, fibres catching at the wings. A brilliant blue was with us most of the way, sunshine curling round the top of the world, stained the colour of air. Catching a little fitful sleep I woke to the most brilliant light. So hard...
Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain
: ) Cefn Ymarfer Coed Naturial festival in Coed Nant Gain was a truly exceptional gig : ) Iliffe the forest Steward is 7 feet tall with fiery red hair and as spindly as a birch sapling. Songbirds and insects buzzed a continuo for our songs – yellow archangel, stitchwort and germander speedwell were our...
Postcards from the Road – launch tour : )
The warm and rainstorm winter and recent sun has left Shropshire blazing – deep green blood flowing underground as the yellow scent of Rapeseed fogs the air. Seven coloured linnets flit like messengers between rainbow and sunshower. Next weekend the green flood will see me in Rhayader at Landed Festival – singing my heart out...
Atlantic drifter – summer tour ’14 : )
Very happy to announce this year’s summer tour. Hope to see you somewhere on the road! x 25.3 Helsinki, Finland http://www.aalto.fi 26.3 Arabiankatu, Finland http://www.aalto.fi 27.3 Kapelli, Finland http://valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/fi/tulossa-en 2–3.5 Landed Festival, Rhayader, Wales http://www.landedfestival.co.uk 4.5 Sun Festival, Severn Meadows, Low Town, Bridgnorth http://tiny.cc/myn9dx 17.5 Celf Ymarfer Coedwig Naturial, Coed Nant Gain www.naturalforestpractice.com www.freetheforest.org 18.5...
New festivals just in : Landed Festival, Rhayader and Folk on the Park, Lacon : )
Home after sea ice and brilliant light – today Shropshire sun sucked the scent from magnolia, lavender and cherry blossom. Here, suddenly, it’s spring and I come laggardly to this shout of green. Later, lead tatters hugged the evening horizon while in high clear blue a sliver moon shaped a smile. A swallow skimmed my head today...
Finland tour blog
Tour blog – music, photo, travelogue mashup goes to Finland Departures – so nothing and nowhere – it’s a no place and no time. Such marvels, though, wait through the doors at the end of these silver tubes : ) Looking for Noggin. I’m flying, so half my face is suffering speed blur — ...
Darwin Festival
Delighted to be performing tomorrow at The Shrewsbury Coffeehouse as part of a packed bill for the Darwin Festival : ) Come down and squeeze in! x
All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray… films remembering a Shropshire summer
Abel’s Harp play Wax and Wane, featuring Harriet Bartlett (vocal, accordion), Simon Smith (bass), Jonathan Day (vocal, tenor guitar, cahon), Rob Dunsford (vocal, guitar), Charlotte Price (cello). Abel’s Harp play The Spanish Set at Festival at the Edge – (from left) Harriet Bartlett, Jonathan Day, Cait Leach and Jared Jackson. Abel’s Harp play ‘Millionaire’ (Rob...
Vagabond from the Blue Sky, Part 2. An interview with FolkRadio’s Alex Gallacher
Vagabond from the Blue Sky, part 2 An interview with FolkRadio’s Alex Gallacher Talking about his experiences of music and the road, Jonathan continued: Life, it often seems to me, is like a string of beads: moments strung like pearls on the fading continuum of my passing. Here are some of those moments, translucent milk-white...
Vagabond from the Blue Sky part 1. An interview with Folk Radio’s Alex Gallacher
Folk Life: Jonathan Day – Vagabond from the Blue Sky by ALEX GALLACHER, FolkRadio I’ve been a fan of Jonathan Day’s music since he sent his album ‘Carved in Bone’. He’s a very keen traveller and always seems to be off on some journey, so much so that I find it impossible to...