Steeleye Span

40th Anniversary Tour

Sun 20 Dec 2009 7.30pm

Butterworth Hall: £18.50 (£16.50)

Musicians: Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Liam Genockey, Ken Nicol, Pete Zorn

In a world where bands come and go in the blink of an eye, the enduring success of Steeleye Span is one of the great stories in rock music. 2009 will see them celebrate an incredible forty years together, an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that the band has seldom been more active in its career.

The current line-up of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Liam Genockey, Ken Nicol and Pete Zorn (replacing Rick Kemp due to illness), will come to the stage for this very exciting year in the history of Steeleye.

At a period in their career when most bands are happy to settle down to rehashing past glories, Steeleye Span have pushed on with a succession of acclaimed albums, each seeing them re-define their classic sound.

Their fortieth anniversary year will be spent in much the same way as every other; they will play live (two UK tours, plus visits to Australia and USA) and make music, releasing a new album that will typically see them buck their own trend and go back to their roots, the interpretation of traditional song. This though, has always been the Steeleye way. Tied not to the past, the present or the future – simply timeless.

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Butterworth Hall

With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .