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A rare opportunity to see these two distinguished and esteemed folk artistes on the same bill! Performing solo sets and sharing some songs too, this promises to be a special evening of particular charm. CHRIS FOSTER's status as one of British folk music's major players is secure. His superbly crafted songs and accompaniments, distinctive English folk music voice, and accomplished guitar arrangements, ensure a compelling performance. Chris Foster merits legend status, one of the very best in the second wave of the Brit folk revival, as important as Martin Carthy, Dick Gaughan and Nic Jones in the way he modernised and invested traditional songs with inventive guitar arrangements and potent vocal delivery. (Colin Irwin - fROOTs) After 17 years and seven solo albums, JACKIE OATES must surely be considered one of the mainstays of an accomplished, informed and stylistically individual English traditional music scene that began in the early 2000s and continues to thrive. While Jackie has continued to perform the concerts that earned her a reputation as one of the country's best loved folk performers, and making solo records that regularly rack up glowing broadsheet reviews, it's as a collaborator and contributor that she's focused on of late; finding new and surprising artistic corners to illuminate with her voice, research and musicianship. "...the sweetest voice of her generation of folkies" - Independent on Sunday