Jamie Smith’s Mabon

“Absolutely stunning- they should be headlining all the major festivals!” Mick Peat, BBC Midlands “Folkwaves”

Award–winning, stunning, joyous and vibrant - Celtic music without borders - Jamie Smith’s MABON (JSM) is an essential and heady treat, currently seen by audiences and critics alike as one of Britain’s fastest rising ‘must see’ roots acts.

JSM’s music is self-styled, singular and toe-tappingly good – an irresistible blend of world music, Celtic roots and rabble-rousing funk folk, filled with energy, joy and passion. Jamie Smith’s prolific and imaginative compositions take you on a magical whistle-stop Euro tour, with jigs and reels jostling for space alongside other dance-related forms including Breton fest-noz, French mazurka, Galician muinera and even shades of klezmer in an exuberant, feel-good show.

Jamie Smith’s MABON has “a fearsome reputation as a live band” (Financial Times), and over the past eighteen months they have delivered their show to audiences across Europe, delighting the crowds from Cropredy to Celtic Connections, WOMEX (Copenhagen) to Lorient (Brittany). Led by Jamie, “one hell of an accordion player and arranger“ (Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2), JSM delivers a spirited, sublimely executed performance – featuring instrumentals from the award-winning album, ‘Live at the Grand Pavilion’ alongside freshly penned songs –coaxing the audience down a corkscrew path of contrasting emotions that leaves them breathless and bewitched.

So stand by for infectious, energising, life affirming music in spades. As ‘fRoots’ put it, “Mabon are comin’ through, no surprise to hear them, powerful, authentic and a tad wonderful”.

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