When: 7.30pm on Thursday 25 May 2017
Where: The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester M4 2AF

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We’re delighted to be working with Julie Byrne again – this time, at the Wonder Inn!

American wanderer Julie Byrne‘s second album Not Even Happiness (released earlier this year to widespread acclaim) vividly archives what would have otherwise been lost to the road – bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, as well as the irresolvable mysteries of love.

A more confident beast than her 2014 debut Rooms With Walls And Windows, adding atmospheric instrumentation and electronic flourishes to Byrne’s unusual guitar tunings and fingerpicked melodies, moving the songs from the front-porch into subtle anthemia.

In the live arena she enchants, leaving rooms and festival crowds mesmerised by her voice and warm presence, who find a real connection with Byrne’s intimate songs. This feeling is often shared: ‘When the show has that magical spirit every person has contributed, even unknowingly, in creating a space of responsiveness to each other through vulnerability, through our unified experience and honesty about our sorrow and our emergence.’

Jim Ghedi is a six- and 12-string guitarist and folk singer from a mining village on the outskirts of Sheffield. For two years he has toured the United Kingdom in support of his debut album, Home Is Where I Exist, Now To Live & Die, which was released by the Welsh label Cambrian Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy3B9P4R_vw

Having amassed a collection of material inspired by the rural communities and landscapes visited over the last year he’s currently putting the finishing touches to his next collection of songs – combining finger-style guitar composition, orchestral parts and traditional folk song.

The Wonder Inn is a new venue and creative space within a listed building on Shudehill, on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

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