Rob Halligan & Jack Blackman (double bill)

Over the last six years, award-winning singer/songwriter Rob Halligan has been making his mark on the British unsigned music scene. His latest release, Best Thing That’s Happened, recorded with Graeme Duffin and Sandy Jones (Wet Wet Wet) has been met with stunning reviews.

Style-wise, it’s acoustic roots-rock. His songs challenge faith, politics and complacency and are delivered with a rough spirituality, brutal honesty and tested to be true.

“Captivating, deserving of a nationwide audience.” Musician Magazine

Jack Blackman is a young finger-style guitarist and singer/songwriter whose repertoire ranges from early acoustic blues to English folk and original material.

Since performing with Paul Jones and the Blues Band, he has performed all around the country. He was semi-finalist at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Musician of the Year and has had a track selected for the USA blues compilation CD, All Aboard The Blues on Errorcraft records. He has also recorded a track for Sawmill records’ traditional music compilation, Cultivated Roots.

“The Blues has a bright future.” Maverick Magazine