![]() INTERNATIONAL TOURING : Kalamitsi Arts Festival, CRETE 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015. UK FESTIVALS : Latitude Festival 20, Moseley Folk Festival 2011, Belladrum 2010, Garforth Arts Festival, Rockhampton Folk Festival 2015, Glastonbury Festival 2016, Art in Action Festival 2016. She accompanies herself on acoustic guitar, and works with her husband Andy Hamill,a highly respected bass player who has worked and recorded with many big musical names (including Laura Mvula, Rumer, Eska, Natacha Atlas, Mark Murphy, Nitin Sawhney, Omar, 4Hero and Kylie Minogue). ![]() ![]() Her music has folk, country, jazz and pop influences and she is an accomplished singer working with a band of exceptionally good musicians. Listening to her play live, one audience member described as ‘like being enfolded in a warm embrace’. She writes about things in her life that are important to other people too. Her music is most like that of James Taylor, one of her major influences, and her songs and special voice connect with people. Rebecca has many loyal and passionate fans of all ages and backgrounds. She is a regular musical guest of poet and comedian John Hegley.įor the second year running she played a series of concerts in South West France in summer of 2017. She has played in Crete, France, Germany and Holland, and has toured major theatres round the UK as support artist to Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and Paul Carrack of Squeeze and Mike & the Mechanics. Rebecca has played venues and festivals all over the UK and Europe, from Ronnie Scott’s and the South Bank Centre, to Glastonbury Festival, Latitude and Moseley Folk Festival. Her albums have been played on BBC Radio 2 by Janice Long, Jamie Cullum, Jeremy Vine, Aled Jones, Eamon Holmes and Alex Lester, and she has played sessions for BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music (Tom Robinson), and played live on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ and ‘Loose Ends’ as well as Broadcasting House, BBC London (Robert Elms and Simon Lederman) and World Update with Dan Damon on the BBC World Service. Singer-songwriter Rebecca Hollweg has just released her 3rd album of melodic songs, ‘Country Girl’, described by UNCUT magazine as ‘another delightful batch of tunes,’ and given 8/10. ‘A talented tunesmith, happy to wrangle words into memorable phrases’ – Q ‘ Akin to an old Brill Building songsmith, Carole King couldn’t have come up with a better pop song’ – Mick Houghton in UNCUT **** ‘ Absolutely stunning‘ – Aled Jones on BBC Radio 2 ‘ Beautiful sound, great vibe…I just love her talent’ – Janice Long on BBC Radio 2 Contact: A great singer who I love very much…a great, great album…a great listen from start to finish’, Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2
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