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Emily’s visit to perform at Callington Road mental health hospital in Bristol on 5 July provoked a wonderful response from staff and patients:

“Many thanks for coming to Callington Road, Emily and performing for pretty much the entire duration of the tea party. You truly went above and beyond – especially in the ridiculous heat. I would like to thank you particularly for going on to the female PICU ward. For half an hour you completely changed the atmosphere in a truly bleak place. Your music and interaction with the patients inspired some incredibly traumatised and unwell women to step back into the present and remember that there is still hope. It was very appreciated by the staff and patients alike. You left a warm glow on that ward. Any chance you could make time to do a weekly acoustic set and song writing workshop there?! Only joking, many, many thanks.”  Alex Hiding (OT department) and all the staff on ECH and at Callington Road.

Read Emily’s blog about her visit to Callington Road and find out more about her work promoting music for mental health.

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Emily performed at the annual Co-Production Festival in London, part of Co-Production Week organised by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).  She sang her songs about surviving mental illness and was applauded by the audience for her speech about the benefits of music for mental health.

“Listening to  was a real treat.  Completely emotive music from this wonderful mental health advocate.” [Care Quality Commission).

To find out more about Emily’s work in mental health, including her hospital gigs, click here.

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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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