The show is presented and performed by Paul Thompson, who was last in Winster in 2023, with a sell-out evening of comic songs and verse. He returns to sing the hilarious, irreverent, poetic, unique songs of the late, great Jake Thackray.
Jake, who died in 2002, became a national figure in the 1960s, singing on TV about a world of weird and wonderful characters he himself created. But he found fame difficult to handle, and always preferred the more intimate setting of the folk club, with just the atmosphere Paul will be recreating in Winster.
Paul’s glamorous partner on this occasion will be Nadine, a guitar that Jake once owned and named. Paul and Nadine can be heard together on his album, Playing with Nadine.
Paul is brilliant in sensitively recreating Jake’s songs and he has himself written some in the same vein. He is also the co-author of the acclaimed biography, Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray, which was included in the Daily Telegraph’s pick of the best music books of 2022. Expect the show to include some colourful insights into Jake’s extraordinary life.
A cracking evening’s entertainment is in prospect on Saturday 1 March at 8pm in the Burton Institute, Winster DE4 2DQ. Tickets £10 from Winster Post Office or geoff.orchardmine@gmail.com. All profits go to support Winster’s Twinning with Monterubbiano in Italy. There will be no bar, so please bring your own drinks. Cabaret seating, so ticket numbers limited.