Courtney
Marie Andrews is performing on the first episode of Later With Jools Holland on
11 April!
After a sold out
February tour of the UK, Courtney Marie Andrews is back in the UK this
month to appear on the first episode of the 50th series of Later with Jools
Holland alongside the likes of Kasabian, Spoon & Goldfrapp.
Courtney’s
breakthrough album HONEST LIFE has received consistently ecstatic
reviews and she recently found time to record a version of “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free"
with Bonnie “Prince” Billy for Our First 100 Days charity.
Courtney and Will
Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy joined forces to record a cover of I Wish I
Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free – a song made famous by Nina Simone. The
track which is available on Bandcamp, being
released in aid of the First 100 Days Project, where one rare, unreleased or
exclusive song is released every day of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s
presidency. Contributors so far include the likes of Bill Fay, Califone, Jason
Molina, Angel Olsen and Loose alumni Hurray For The Riff Raff.
Here are some words
from Courtney and Will:
“I Wish I Knew How It
Would Feel To Be Free is an amazing gospel tune that the incomparable Nina
Simone covered and it became an important song for the civil rights movement in
the 60s. A lot of these issues are still relevant today and I wanted to sing a
song that had a palpable voice for those issues. I’ll never know what it was
like to walk the rocky path that Nina did, but her power and unyielding
strength was and is something to aspire to.” – Courtney Marie Andrews
“We figured to make a
song that would keep folks’ minds, tongues & fingers in motion. James
Baldwin: “This is not the land of the free. It is only very unwillingly &
sporadically the home of the brave.”” – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Courtney Marie Andrews UK
& Ireland Tour:
Thurs
24 August 2017 -, Deaf Institute, Manchester
(135 Grosvenor St, Manchester, M1 7HE)
Tues
29 August 2017 - Whelan's, Dublin
(25 Wexford Street Dublin 2)
THURS
31 August 2017 - End Of The Road Festival (Website; Tollard Royal, Salisbury
SP5 5PP) (August 31 - September 3)
Sun
3 September 2017 - Lantern, Bristol
(Colston St, Bristol BS1 5AR)
7
September 2017 - PARIS, Pop Up Du Label
8
September 2017 - NIJMEGEN, Doornroosje
9
September 2017 - AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
12
September 2017 - BERLIN - Privat Club
13
September 2017 - Copenhagen, Ideal Bar (Vega)
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18, 2017): ** NEW TO YOU ** USA singer-songwriter Courtney Marie
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3, 2017):
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