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Emily is performing two public gigs in November before a break for an operation and will start touring again in March next year. Please check her gigs page for dates booked so far and save the date – ticket details will be posted as soon as we have them.  Her public gigs next month are at Hatch Court in south Devon and Letcombe Bassett in Oxfordshire.

If you would like to host a private house concert (minimum 10 people) or promote a small village hall concert in the UK, please contact Emily direct.  If you are a member of a folk club in the UK who might enjoy Emily’s contemporary folk songs, please also get in touch.

If you would like Emily to keep in touch with you, please join her mailing list. You can read her latest email here.

Finally, you can now watch the video for Emily’s song ‘How To Conquer’ on her YouTube channel.

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I was completely overwhelmed by the incredible number of such lovely replies to my recent email to all of you on my mailing list.  Thank you so much for letting me know my songs had not been forgotten – that meant the world to me.

In addition to two private house concerts, I just wanted to let you know I’m doing two public gigs in November, supported by the fantastic singer-songwriter Jody Prewett.  The first is at Hatch Court, a beautiful barn near Kingsbridge in south Devon, and the second at Letcombe Bassett village hall in Oxfordshire.  If you can make it to either of these it would be great to have you there.

Then I’m having a gap until March for a major kidney operation in December which is going to take some time to recover from but then I’m looking forward very much to all the gigs that have been booked so far for next year – some public, some private house concerts.  If you would like to see me perform, please save the date and all the ticket details will be posted in due course.  Here are the dates booked so far:

https://emilymaguire.com/shows/

I’ve been keeping gigs fairly local to Bath where both Jody and I are based but I’m hoping to tour northern England, Scotland and north and west Wales in the summer holidays next year (Jody works as a guitar teacher in schools) so if you live in those areas and have a living room with a minimum of 10 friends who might like my songs, please get in touch with me direct.

I hope all’s well in your world.  Thanks so much for your support.

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I’m so delighted to find out today that my poetry album ‘Words With Wings’ is now available on Spotify.  I’ve been putting up more videos… one for the title track of ‘A Light To Follow’ and ‘How To Conquer’, both songs from my latest album.  I’ve also uploaded a video for a song called ‘Omnia Amore’ which I composed several years ago but never released on a record.  You can watch these videos on my website or my YouTube channel.

I am still recovering from the worst, longest bipolar episode of my life.  I am enduring one relapse after another, but at least I have some fantastic support from my local NHS mental health services and have managed to start working on my 8th album – songs we recorded for ‘A Light To Follow’ that we had to drop because we couldn’t have 27 songs on one album.

I’ve also started booking private house concerts for next year.  If you are interested in hosting a concert in your living room, please look at this webpage and get in touch with me.

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You can now stream Emily’s album of poems and piano ‘Words With Wings’ on Spotify.  It is also available on all other major digital music platforms.

You can also watch videos for ‘How To Conquer’, ‘A Light To Follow’ and ‘My Way Home’ which are all songs from her latest album, plus ‘Omnia Amore (All Is Love)’, a song which is not on any album but was composed by Emily back in 2020.

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Apologies for the radio silence but I have been enduring the worst bipolar breakdown of my life which began in late 2022 and continues to this day.  I am hoping to have recovered and start performing again from September this year.

For the sake of my mental health, I am not on social media anymore – not Facebook, not Instagram nor X.  I have not deleted those accounts as they are a record of the past 20 years of my previous music career with Christian Dunham but they are not active.  I do however have a YouTube channel.  Please feel free to spread the word about my songs via your own social media channels and please join my mailing list so I can let you know when I am well enough to perform live again.  I would be hugely grateful for your support.

I do not have a booking agent, a manager, a publisher, a publicist, a plugger or a record label. Shaktu Records, the record label I ran with Christian for the past 20 years, no longer exists. I want to have as little as possible to do with the music business.  All I want is to sing my songs in quiet rooms and halls with people listening and not talking.  And hope to uplift, comfort and inspire them by doing so.  I don’t care if there are 10 people there, 100 or 1,000.  If you want me to come and play for your audience, whoever they are, please get in touch direct with me by email.

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Thanks to everyone who came to listen to me sing at the fantastic Queens Head pub in Newton, Cambridgeshire, last week.  I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to see so many familiar faces and get such big hugs from everyone I haven’t seen for the past 5 years.

A huge thank you to Tim Pardoe for coming all the way from Sussex with my CDs and books, to the lovely landlord Robert Short for lending me his pub, to Mike Watts for taking photos and most of all to my old friend Ecki who lent me his guitar. And big love and thanks to my audience who came from far and wide and squeezed into the room to hear my songs played unplugged for the first time since my first ever public performance at the Square & Compass Inn in Purbeck back in 1996.

If you have a folk club, a music or community group, or a living room with friends you think might like my songs, please get in touch with me direct.