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Emily is performing at the annual Co-Production Festival in London next week alongside Britain’s Got Talent winner Lost Voice Guy (aka Lee Ridley), as featured in The Guardian.  Organised by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the festival is part of the third Co-production Week celebrating the benefits of co-production, sharing good practice and highlighting the contribution of people who use services and carers to developing better social care and health public services.

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Thanks to the folks at Crack Magazine for publishing this glowing preview about Emily’s show at The Cluny in Newcastle (21 July).

MAGUIRE ON FIRE

And when I say “on fire” I mean “knocking out the kind of singer/songwriterly guitar-based indie-folk that arrows directly in to your heart”.  She’s playing Cluny 2 this July.

Emily Maguire spent four years living in a recycled wood and tin shack out in the Australian bush a few years back, and while there she made her first two albums, Stranger Place and Keep Walking.  They flagged-up the fact that here was a real talent, her lyrical acoustic folk featuring original and quite startling imagery.  Much in demand, she returned to the UK and toured with some of the world’s great singer/songwriters including Don McLean, Eric Bibb and Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame.  Her third album, Believer, brought wider acclaim, but it was last year’s A Bit Of Blue that really had punters and critics hoisting her onto their shoulders with a quite stunning release which was beautifully arranged, supremely melodic and featured plenty of heart-in-the-mouth moments where her lyrical concerns and gorgeous tunes came together perfectly.  A real talent, catch her live for plenty of those shiver-down-the-spine moments.

Emily Maguire, Saturday 21 July, Cluny 2, Ouseburn, Newcastle, 8pm, £12
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Thanks to everyone who came to my gigs at Barnoldswick, Helmsley and Carlisle last weekend – we had such a great time.

I’m now looking forward to performing next week alongside Lee Ridley (aka Britain’s Got Talent winner Lost Voice Guy) at the Co-Production Festival in London organised by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.  The festival is part of the third Co-production Week celebrating the collaboration between professionals, service users and carers in designing and delivering services for the people who need them.

I’m also performing at a mental health celebration day in Bristol for staff, patients and carers at Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.  I’ll be playing on the wards as well as outdoors (if this gorgeous weather holds!).

After playing there supporting Don McLean, Eric Bibb and Dennis Locorriere,  I’m doing my first headline gig in Wales at Acapela, a beautifully restored Welsh chapel just outside Cardiff.  We’re playing there on Friday 6 July as one of the last gigs of my current UK tour.  Tickets are available here.

Hope all’s well in your world.

xx

© Richard Ecclestone

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We’ve just posted a lyric video on YouTube for my song ‘The Borderline’ from my first album ‘Stranger Place’.  I’d had writer’s block for 6 months when I went to see my Buddhist teacher Lama Jampa Thaye in Manchester.  He told me to get up at dawn and start writing straight after doing my meditation practice.  The next day this song just fell out of my head.  It’s the most ‘Buddhist’ song I’ve ever written.  You can see the video here.

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A new lyric video for Emily’s beautiful song ‘The Borderline’, which she describes as “the most Buddhist song I’ve ever written”, has been posted on YouTube.  You can see the video here.  The song is from her first album ‘Stranger Place’, which is still available to order from Amazon or direct from Shaktu Records.

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Thanks to everyone who came to my gigs this weekend at Artrix Arts Centre and Hanger Farm Arts Centre – they were great nights.  I’m looking forward to the rest of my UK tour, playing Barnoldswick, York, Carlisle, Cardiff, Biddulph, Crail, Glasgow, Newcastle, New Milton and London.

If you have friends or family in any of these places please do spread the word – all support very welcome. Dates and ticket links can be found here.

Thanks so much for your support.

xx

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I’m reading a wonderful book by the American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön called ‘Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change’.  In it she quotes Steve Jobs and I thought I’d share it with you in case you’ve never heard it before.

“After he was diagnosed with cancer, the visionary genius Steve Jobs had this to say about freedom from the eight worldly concerns:

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.  Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

 

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Emily was interviewed by Paul Franks on BBC WM to promote her charity gig on Sunday 24 June at the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings in Bromsgrove.  You can listen again to the interview here (scroll to 02:19:00 to hear Emily).  Ticket holders for the gig are invited to come early and picnic in the beautiful grounds of the museum.  Tickets are £15 and can be booked here.  All proceeds will go towards funding the work of this very special place, where over 30 historic buildings have been rescued and rebuilt in the grounds.  More information about the museum can be found at http://www.avoncroft.org.uk.