Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine
Friday 4th July at 7:30 pm
£16.00
A Folk at the Book Tree event: Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine are touring their incredible collaborative album, Things Found in Books, which is couldn’t be more apt for a bookshop performance! Both highly acclaimed singer-songwriters individually, Boo and Yvonne have joined together to create an album full of hope and longing, telling beautifully human stories of lives imagined from items which have been lost and found between the pages of secondhand books.
We’re thrilled to welcome acclaimed solo artists Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine to the Book Tree to share their co-created album, Things Found in Books. Haunting, nostalgic and sensitive, each song transports you into lives imagined from an object carried through time between the pages of a book. We’re the first stop on Yvonne and Boo’s tour, so let’s give them a warm Pickering welcome!
The gig will be in our atmospheric upstairs event space, surrounded by the building’s old oak beams. Drinks will be available to purchase at an informal bar before the show and during the interval.
Doors will open from 7pm, and the performance will start at 7.30pm.
About the Album: Things Found in Books
Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine’s new album Things Found in Books is an album of songs written in response to a notice board in Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop littered with things that have dropped out of books.
Letters, notes, photographs, old receipts, postcards, fragments of people’s lives which has been lovingly collected and kept on a board on the wall amongst the bookshelves.
Boo and Yvonne have formed an inimitable songwriting partnership weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.
For a hint of what to expect you can hear Yvonne and Boo talk about the album on their YouTube video.
About the Musicians
Boo Hewerdine
One of the country’s most consistently admired songwriters — Folk Radio UK
Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed award-winning English singer-songwriter now living and working in Glasgow. Well known as one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business, he has worked with several other well-known names including Eddi Reader, who enjoyed international success with the hit single Patience of Angels (written by Boo) in 1995.
Simple, poetic reflections on life and love — The Guardian
Read more about Boo on his website
Follow Boo on Facebook or Instagram
Listen to Boo’s music on YouTube or Bandcamp
Yvonne Lyon
An awesome level of talent that I cannot compare — Maverick Magazine
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio album release. Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense. She has guested on to live sessions with Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2 and recently completed a master’s degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of West Scotland.
I love her, absolutely love her… great song beautifully performed — Michael Ball, BBC Radio 2
Read more about Yvonne on her website