CANADIAN FOLK SONGWRITER TERRA SPENCER TOURS THE UK IN APRIL 2027

Gigs · Purley on Thames

CANADIAN FOLK SONGWRITER TERRA SPENCER TOURS THE UK IN APRIL 2027

Saturday 17 April 2027 · Doors 19:00

Reading St Mary's Church, Purley on Thames

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CANADIAN FOLK SONGWRITER TERRA SPENCER TOURS THE UK IN APRIL 2027 is on Saturday 17 April 2027 at Reading St Mary's Church, Purley on Thames, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £8.80, including the booking fee.

Doors & Bar 7pm Music 8pm Bad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, hairy dogs, questionable tattoos...all are fair game for funeral director-turned-songwriter (and 2026 Canadian Folk Music award winner for English Songwriter of the Year) Terra Spencer. The songs are good ones, judging from the accolades her four albums have received, and from the caliber of collaborators like Ben Caplan, Dave Gunning, and David Francey, who welcomed Terra as a co-writer and performer on his JUNO-winning album 'The Breath Between'. Cinematic storytelling is a hallmark of many great Canadian folk songwriters, but in Terra's case, it is charged with the wood-paneled '70s warmth of Elton John, Karen Carpenter, and Jackson Browne. As a fun-loving and fearless solo performer, Terra has played some of Canada's most renowned festival stages, including Mariposa, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, and Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, where her Maritime waltz "Lunenburg Moon" has become an unofficial anthem. Think Steve Poltz and Carole King's East Coast cousin. Terra’s passion for songwriting came later in life, after being hired on as a backup singer while scooping ice cream at a festival by country performer Ryan C...

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