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ARTISAN
The Five Year Reunion Tour
www.artisan-harmony.com
Look out, folks they're baaack!
When a cappella singers Artisan hung up their tonsils in November 2005
they weren't adamant about saying: Never again, but they knew they were
going to wait for the right time to do a reunion tour. Finally Artisan's own
itchiness to sing some harmonies again got the better of them. This short
reunion tour sees them doing dates in the UK in July and September 2010
(with festivals in Canada in August andwiched in the middle.)
Birthed in 1985 as a fun thing to do, Artisan kept getting invited to play more and more gigs until finally they kicked their day jobs into touch and went full time in 1989. After that they toured relentlessly throughout the UK, Canada, the USA, Europe and even Australia via Hong Kong until 2005. Heady stuff. Now they're looking forward to being back on the road and meeting up with friends old and new. There will be old favourites and some new original Brian Bedford songs plus a new CD released in July.
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Gestated in 1984 and birthed in 1985 as a fun thing to do, Artisan kept
getting invited to play more and more gigs until finally they kicked their
day jobs into touch and went full time in 1989, playing folk clubs and
festivals in the UK with a few side-trips to Belgium and Germany. In 1994
North America beckoned, first Canada and then the USA. Audiences loved
them. In the next eleven years, between touring up and down the UK they
did thirty North American tours playing everything from house-concerts
to big outdoor festival stages such as Vancouver and Winnipeg Festivals
and the Philadelphia Folksong Festival, playing to 10,000, 15,000 and
20,000 people at a time. They even toured to Australia via Hong Kong.
Heady stuff.
And it was still fun.
Fourteen albums and a concert DVD later they decided that you can have too much fun, sometimes. Travelling takes its toll (more than the singing) and they all had a hankering to do something a bit different. Brian's recording studio, Hilary's duo gigs with Grant Baynham (as Quicksilver) and Jacey's writing and folk agency all drew them to the conclusion that it had been twenty great years, but it was time for a rest. That was 2005. They did a farewell tour, a massive closing concert (DVD still available) and retired (dis)-gracefully to work on other things.
Still friends.
Five years later and they're starting to hanker after being out there again. For a short tour at least. Catch them while you can in July, August and September 2010. After that, who knows?
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