If you’ve tried to buy tickets for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of this website which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on Saturday November 28th, you will notice that we had sold out of our initial allocation and had a waiting list. Anyway, good news, we have moved some chairs around and asked some of our writers to go on Ozempic between now and then which means we’ve been able to release a final batch of tickets for the event. Tickets are £39.95 inclusive of booking fees and there’s a solidarity ticket of £49.95 for those who can afford it, which allows us to further support our chosen charities, the American Civil Liberties Union and Medical Aid for Palestinians and which also includes a free festival programme. Tickets are on sale from this link.
Headlining the event will be an exclusive UK performance from Chuck Prophet and the Echo Strings, featuring a four-piece string quartet, so you can hear Chuck’s songs like you have never heard them before. Also on the bill is legendary singer, musician and songwriter Steve Wynn of The Dream Syndicate, Newcastle-based bluegrass band The Often Herd and Scotland’s Dean Owens who recently recorded a much praised album with Calexico. There’s music too from Utah’s Drew Danburry who makes his way over to the UK for the first time in over a decade, plus some of the best homegrown americana from classic names we have featured here on AUK over the years including Danny George Wilson, Peter Bruntnell, Our Man in the Field, Smalltown Jones, Elaine Palmer, My Girl the River and Ella Spencer, and music of course from Liverpool’s own Barry Jones.
We really hope you can join us there wherever you are in the country or the wider world and of course you also get to sample the delights of one of the greatest cities in the world. As the old joke goes, which is England’s second city? The Mancunian says, “Manchester”, the Brummie says “Birmingham”, the Scouser says “London”. See you here in November!
