Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge Judges’ Award winner Rachael Jean Harris is launching her new EP Leaving Light on Thursday 7th February at Studio2 Parr Street.
Rachael will be performing tracks from the EP along with some older favourites, and will be helped along the way by bandmates Thom Fripp (guitar), Craig Hanson (drums), Aaron Wood (trumpet) and Jamie Brewster (bass).
Leaving Light is available now on all good streaming and download sites, and hard copies (we think that’s CDs rather than tape cassettes…!) will be available to buy on the night.
Support is from Trampette with high energy, jazz infused grooves, and finger-picking folkness from Charlie McKeon.
The show starts at 7pm, and tickets are £7 (inc bf) from Skiddle and £8 on the door.
Rachael Jean Harris
Liverpool-born Rachael Jean Harris has devoted her life to the writing of songs. Recently, the vast majority have fallen into rich themes surrounding the lives of people on the raw edges of existence. Each lasting several years, these themes become areas for detailed thought and research, sparked by real stories, resulting in evocative and poignant tales.
Following the acoustic sounds of Just Like He Said (2007), her more electric, grungy, 2013 release, Dig, focused on women and children in conflict zones, suffering in lesser reported corners of our world. Taking real events and accounts and extrapolating these into fully formed narratives, she attempts to place the listener inside the situation and present them face to face with the danger, freedom, longing and defiance that her protagonists experience.
?Her current focus and the subject of this release, is on those living in confinement, in particular the day to day realities of Death Row inmates in the USA with whom she corresponds. Of interest to her are the complexities of human dignity, longing, memory and the power and potential of mercy.