The English singer-songwriter Kirsty McGee can be heard in Acoustic Roots on  Friday 18 July from 21.00 to 22.00.
For
20 years Kirsty McGee has been following
her personal musical path. She
has a great talent for writing subtle songs, often personal and
introvert, which are both political and narrative. With her soft, yet
insistent voice, she captivates her public, while she accompanies
herself on guitar. Her music went through a change, going
from folk to ’hobopop’ : her name for the combination of folk, jazz,
rockabilly, and oldtime Americana that she has now played for years. In
the meantime she has produced six albums
for BBC Radio 2, all under her
own label Hobopop Recordings. She has been nominated twice for BBC
Radio 2 Folk Awards and she is the winner of the IMA award for the best
Live Album in 2011. So she can no longer be considered to
be unknown in her own country.  Kirsty has shared the podium with artists including Karine Polwart,
Eddi Reader and Suzanne Vega. She tours a lot and has built up a
growing group of listeners, both in England and in the rest of Europe
and America.
In 2011 she went through a personal crisis. She
will talk a little bit about that in the interview with presenter Karin
van den Boogaert. After a year of rest she produced the album
‘Contraband’ within a very short time. During Acoustic Roots she will
sing a few songs from that album as well as from her latest EP
'Sandman'. Kirsty will be accompanied on bass by Nicola Lancerotti, an Italian bass player living in Belgium.
Watch Kirsty McGee on YouTube singing het song 'Setting Of The Sun'.
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