Adam Holmes and the Embers - Whatever It Is You Do (The Quay Sessions)

Oct 23^rd Adam
Holmes and The Embers and Baskery Kingskerswell Parish Church Doors 7pm   1803 875527

27-year-old Edinburgh-born singer/songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the
brightest

rising stars on the UK roots music scene, with influences from either
side of the

Atlantic mixing traditional and contemporary folk with his own brand of
soul and

Americana.

Twice nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, his first two albums were
also

nominated for Scottish Album of the Year in 2014 and 2017, and there is
much

anticipation as to whether he can make it three in a row this year with
third album

Midnight Milk, which was released in September 2017.

His first album, Heirs and Graces, was produced by John Wood (producer
of all Nick

Drake’s albums and John Martyn’s iconic Solid Air album) and mastered by
Simon

Heyworth (co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells) and second
album, Brighter

Still, features two-time BRIT award winner Eddi Reader on backing vocals

throughout.

Latest album Midnight Milk was recorded in one room in his Edinburgh
flat, but

came complete with full brass section, an eighteen-voice choir and a
widescreen

folk/soul/electronica production, which was influenced by a 2016
collaboration he

was involved in with Adrian Utley of Portishead, Dominic Aitchison of
Mogwai and

Martin Green of Lau.

Live, he and his band the Embers combine the rhythm and blues, country
and folk

music textures of classic artists such as The Band, Tom Petty and The
Heartbeakers

and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals with their own hint of Scotland.

They have featured widely on live sessions for BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3,
BBC

Scotland, Edith Bowman’s BBC Scotland Quay Sessions show and Virgin
Radio,

amongst many others, and are regulars on the UK and European festival
and touring

circuit, having shared bills with the likes of Laura Marling, Van
Morrison, Richard

Thompson, Jason Isbell, The Avett Brothers, Sturgill Simpson and
Chvrches amongst

many
others.

Baskery: The three sisters
can't recall when or why they started playing, the music’s always just been

there. In their late teens, the sisters joined forces with their dad,
who for decades was a

one man band playing old blues and country tunes for a living.

This foundation of classic "roots music and Americana" settled
in their hearts, but also

awoke the urge of breaking the rules of traditional music. Baskery is a
band built on what

three people can do together and it's all about turning the music on its
head, blending the

straightforwardness of punk with the subtlety of singer/ songwriting.

All three albums received great acclaim by the press and are released in
numerous

countries. The releases in combination with relentless touring have
given the band a

reputation as one of the music scene's most noticeable live acts.