Tickets now on sale for Amelia Coburn´s Spring 2022 Tour

BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards nominee (2017) and UKE Magazine Breakthrough Artist (2021) Amelia Coburn is taking her unique brand of evocative, gothic-folk and classic storytelling songwriting across the UK next spring in a host of intimate venues. With an EP of new material planned for release around the tour and festival appearances on the horizon, including a return to Cambridge Folk Festival via the English Folk Expo Mentoring scheme for which she was recently selected, it´s full steam ahead as she continues to establish herself as one of the UK´s finest young songwriters and performers. 2021 saw her played on 6Music, BBC Radio 2, RTE1 in Ireland and performing "show-stealing" spots across the country as well as her own spellbinding solo shows. 

Since being nominated for the BBC Young Folk Awards, Teesside´s Amelia Coburn has travelled the world as part of her language studies and performance commitments. Extended stays in France, Mexico and Russia have informed her beguiling original songs which draw on European folk and jazz influences. Although initially known for her exquisite intepretations of less-travelled new wave and pop songs from the likes of The Specials, Kate Bush, Elton John and Sparks she has taken some of this energy and artfulness into her own songs and particularly in her highly lyrical, narrative style and subject matter. From vengeful widows, sleep paralysis, mutinous pirates and Mexican street food to poetic tales of bittersweet romance and more she is not your run-of-the-mill writer and her gift for melody and storytelling lyrics is world class.

Honing her natural performance skills at a variety of events too such as Cambridge Folk Festival, Costa Del Folk in Ibiza, a truly stunning debut at the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival (search it on youtube!) and other ukulele-centric events in Belgium, Czech Republic and France as well as her own sell out solo shows around her native North East plus support and shared performances with acts as diverse as Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, the late, great Vin Garbutt and Indie noise legends The Wedding Present (Her cover of their classic "My Favourite Dress" is songwriter David Gedge´s favourite cover). Branching out, stylistically with recent releases and picking up a stick dulcmer for her psychedelic, tribal stomp "Perfect Storm", which received a good deal of national airplay in the UK, she is a fearless experimenter yet manages to retain her folk and jazz roots throughout. Another recent single, "Dublin Serenade" also received national airplay in the UK and Ireland, while her most recent, the fun, jazzy "Cheese Song" is a live favourite and featured members of Madrid-based Track Dogs. In all Amelia takes a fresh look at familiar influences and infuses them with her playful personality but also finds haunted corners to explore making her a unique voice in the world of folk music.

A clutch of new songs set for release across 2022 will see her establish herself further as one to watch for years to come. 

"A fabulous voice, beguiling stage presence" - Mark Radcliffe

"Absolutely genius" - Tom Robinson 

"Amelia Coburn´s is certainly a voice worth hearing" - RnR Magazine

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