When: 7pm on Wednesday 11 September 2024
Where: YES Basement, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB

We’re excited to welcome Cat Clyde back to Manchester, having previously supported Sarah Jarosz.

Cat Clyde is a singer/songwriter based out of rural Ontario, Canada. A combination of driven, soulful blues and sweet, folk- tinged, dulcet tones that carry a particular sense of familiarity provide the structure on which she creates her unique sound. With influences ranging from Patsy Cline and Lead Belly to Karen Dalton and Bobbie Gentry, this patchwork of musical significance, when stitched to her modern approach, fits like a well-tailored, corduroy-road cloth.

Cat’s latest album Down Rounder is a wonder of deeply felt songwriting, a record that finds her marvelling at what’s around her while considering her own place within it all. Cat joined producer Tony Berg in Los Angeles’ famed Sound City studios to lay down the entirety of Down Rounder in six days flat. The record sounds both lively and lived-in, with Clyde’s malleable singing voice — spanning an appealing twang to a lovely, plaintive croon and anywhere in between — espousing an essential connection between our spiritual centre and the natural world that surrounds us. ‘The album is an exploration and expression of self, patterns in the natural and unnatural world, connecting to nature, the turning wheel of life, shedding old selves, embracing new selves, and the ever changing, expanding and contracting nature of love and life,’ Cat explains.

After racking up millions of streams across multiple platforms with previous releases, Down Rounder sounds like the work of someone who’s found themselves artistically and holistically, while extending a hand to any listener who wants to follow Clyde on her singular and thrilling path.

Special guest is Sara Wolff. Originally from Norway but now based in Liverpool, Sara Wolff is a storyteller weaving together elements of indie-folk and psych-pop with analogue warmth. Her work has drawn comparisons to acts such as Tune-Yards, Cate Le Bon and Jenny Hval. Together with her band she has shared stages with international names like Helado Negro, Peter Broderick, This Is The Kit and Fenne Lily. Her live set features cassette machines, field recordings and distorted, ambient guitars – informed by her work as a media composer and sound recordist.

Her debut single for Lost Map Records is the softly psychedelic and spellbindingly melodic Is It True – a song exploring creativity and community in a challenging time. Recorded in Margate with Mercury Prize-winning wonk-folk musician and producer Mike Lindsay, best known from his acclaimed bands Tunng and LUMP with Laura Marling, it is available to stream now.

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