Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/06/2013
7:30 pm
Location
St Giles' Church
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Singing Sensation Charlie Dore, of ‘Pilot of the Airwaves’ fame, excited to perform with Wrexham Community Choir as part of her widely anticipated UK tour.
Charlie Dore is embarking on a UK tour with long-standing collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Julian Littman to promote her new 4 track EP, ‘Finally, a Limousine’, and will perform in Wrexham for the first time on June 8th 2013.
Wrexham Community Choir will be joining Charlie on stage at St. Giles’ Parish Church when she visits Wrexham in early June. The choir will be performing their own set as well as helping to deliver some huge harmony versions of her songs. Charlie says, “We have worked with several choirs in the last year and it is quite addictive. Once you’ve sung Pilot of the Airwaves with 80 or more people, you never want to go back. We are looking forward to working with Wrexham Community Choir and this year we’ve added new songs to the set, including ‘Big Boned Girl’, and of course ‘Finally, a Limousine’, which sounds jolly, but isn’t all it seems…”
‘Pilot of the Airwaves’, the international hit released when Charlie was signed to Island Records, was the first of many successful songs that lead the way for an impressively diverse list of artists to record her material. Throughout her career she has written for Tina Turner, George Harrison, Lisa Stansfield, Paul Carrack of Mike and the Mechanics, Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue, Sheena Easton, who reached US number 4 with ‘Strut’, Celine Dion, UB40 and Jimmy Nail, for whom she wrote ‘Ain’t No Doubt’, a UK No 1.
Best known as one of the UK’s most respected singer-songwriters, Charlie enjoys a career that also spans acting and writing for TV, radio and film. She starred opposite Jonathon Pryce and Tim Curry in the award-winning film ‘The Ploughman’s Lunch’, has worked in theatre, both fringe and West End, performed radio comedy with Eric Idle, and co-founded and performed at the Soho comedy venue The Hurricane Club for six years, working alongside many comedy icons, including Robin Williams.
She has recorded seven albums to date and won the International Acoustic Music Awards Grand Prize and the Folk 1st prize for “Looking For My Own Lone Ranger”. Charlie has also made an album of covers, ‘The Hula Valley Songbook’, a collection of 1930′s Americana, which she toured with her band while supporting Jools Holland during the summer of 2009.
Her 2011 album ‘Cheapskate Lullabyes’ won the Indie Acoustic Project’s Best Lyrics of 2012. The Independent described the album as “knowing, worldly, delicate but mordant pop born out of wisdom, and the desire to share it” while Frank Hennessy, presenter of BBC Radio’s ‘Celtic Heartbeat’ said of the title track “Only Charlie Dore could have written that song and only Charlie could have sung it so wonderfully. Brilliant. She is a complete one off.”
Summer ’11 saw her touring with her band, The Hula Valley Orchestra, and creating new converts at festivals including Glastonbury, The Sage Americana and Fairport Convention’s Cropredy, as well as recording live sessions on Radio 2 for Bob Harris and Friday Night Is Music Night.
During her current tour Charlie is delighted to be performing with a number of local and community choirs. Choir singing has risen drastically in popularity over the past couple of years, and Charlie enjoys the collaboration, having adapted her songs for high impact, large group performances.
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