Summer is coming…

where are you going? what are you doing?

maybe we’ll cross paths? I’ve just updated my gigs list with all the festivals you can find me at this summer, namely Maverick, Festival At The Edge, Cambridge Folk Festival, Nozstock, Wilderness, Greenman, The Square and Compass Festival, Galtres Parklands, Greenbelt, Bunkfest, Swanage Folk festival and Bromyard Folk festival… hope to maybe see you there. See my TOURDATES page for more of that sort of thing http://www.jessmorgan.co.uk

Ooh – safe to say this year is really about playing live for me. ‘Langa Langa’ – if you hand’t heard is my new album and it came out to a merry reception on 14th April this year. The release tour was made up of 40 official tour dates – and there are just 2 more to go:

Sunday June 29th at Jabberwocky – Douglas, Isle of Man
(support from Jack Wolter.)
Monday June 30th at The Crescent Theatre – Birmingham (with the outrageously talented miss Kim Lowings. We’ll be singing a bit together as well.)

The tour has been up and down for sure – I’ve played some wonderful gigs, some quite exotic gigs, gigs where people hated me and left, gigs where I stayed up until 4am playing table tennis… Most importantly the tour wouldn’t have gone anywhere beyond my house here in Norwich if it hadn’t been for all you wonderful people who take an interest. I feel extremely lucky. Thank you. If you fancy a quick round up – here’s a little video I scraped together – to say thanks: http://youtu.be/1RP65lC3mSk

If you just want to wrap your ears around the new record then please by all means do. Its right here and yours for the taking:
http://jessmorgan.bandcamp.com
CDs are available as usual for mail order – if they come from my site (Bandcamp) then they do of course come wrapped up with a sticker and and card.

I even do mail-orders from the road!

– Played TWICE by BBC Folk Show host Mark Radcliffe. Also supported warmly by BBC Scotland’s Iain Andersdon, BBC Wales’s Frank Hennessey, BBC N.Ireland’s Cherrie McIlwaine, BBC Shropshire’s Genevieve Tudor and BBC Norfolk Introducing.
– Nice review in R2 Magazine and a not bad one in Uncut.
– Some lovely online features on some really respected blogs:
Three Chords and The Truth-
http://threechordsandthetruthuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/jess-morgan-langa-langa-self-released.html
Northern Sky:
http://www.allanwilkinson.co.uk/node/3384
Folk Radio UK:
http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2014/06/jess-morgan-langa-langa/

Here’s a video of how it was all made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHfsNpdp558

VIDEOS

‘fight fire with fire’ thats what I say, or maybe ‘if you can’t beat them…join them’ ? There are few things I hate more than being video-ed or snapped while I’m playing. Call me unprofessional, but it does put me off a bit. However – everyone’s saying the same thing… its all about videos. So I’m trying to be positive and make some decent ones myself – hoping that eventually the good will outweigh the bad! I could really use some comments and ‘shares’ of these if anyone’s feeling generous with their free time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_pXq56nG7o
– The Missionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfAVq7VYZw
– The Last Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RP65lC3mSk
– Silver Dagger

BLOG…

If you’re not completely bored already with hearing from me… I’ve just written a new blog and its here:-
http://morgwrites.tumblr.com/post/90072629271/half-time-pep-talk

Jess x