Tickets now on sale for Michael Chapman

Now a worldly wise septuagenarian, enigmatic guitarist and songwriter, we are honoured to welcome Michael Chapman to the Hare & Hounds!

Chapman was first championed by John Peel in the 70s and Jack Rose and No Neck Blues Band in the 00s. His career retrospective double CD came out via Tompkins Square in February, and Light In The Attic re-issued his classic ‘Fully Qualified Survivor’ in the same month. Both releases have received stunning reviews.

He’s already been rediscovered wholesale in the US courtesy of his Jack Rose and No Neck Blues Band connections, topped off by his extensive interview by fan Thurston Moore in Fretboard Journal in 2009, where Moore compared Chapman’s style and influence with that of John Renbourn and Bert Jansch. Now the UK and Europe are catching up with this sudden explosion of excitement about him, and quite right too.

As Spencer Grady notes on the BBC Music site, “Just as John Fahey and Robbie Basho were belatedly sainted by a slew of avant-garde musicians eager to enrich their experimental fields with old primitive tradition, so the same enclave have reached out to embrace Yorkshire-born minstrel Michael Chapman.”

Michael Chapman plays Venue 1 at Hare & Hounds on Monday 15th October 2012, presented by Birmingham Promoters. Tickets available here.