Hey everyone, I’m really excited that my original Christmas single ‘St Benedict’s Christmas Fair’ is now available on iTunes!
The song is a bittersweet acoustic ballad about how hard it is saying goodbye during the festive period. I had the song written for awhile and it’s a really personal one, all the mixture of emotions felt when I was leaving home to embark on a new adventure.It’s the first single that I’ve recorded and played all the guitars, percussion and vocals, and mixed myself which was really fulfilling. I love the magical creative process of layering a track and the song has already earned radio airplay and some lovely reviews:
To download my single please visit https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/st-benedicts-christmas-fair/id931596301
"so sweet and really lovely" Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
"beautiful stuff" Stephen Foster, BBC Radio Suffolk
'What a lovely tune!! I really like the running guitar riff throughout. Something I would keep humming to myself.' Gene Godfrey, Classic FM USA
"lovely; sad and melancholy but lovely. Very catchy too. I found myself singing along the second time through." Steve Hawthorne, InSuffolk
Christmas video filmed in Norwich
Here’s the music video for the single, filmed around the city centre and of course in St Benedict’s Street!
I’ll also be sharing some live performances of the song so keep a look out on my YouTube Channel.
Upcoming Headline Norwich Show - Bicycle Shop December 10th
To celebrate the release, I will be playing a special headline gig at The Bicycle Shop on Wednesday December 10th. Those attending the gig will also have the chance to get a special Christmas EP which features two originals as well as two Christmas covers!
Tickets and info here.
Latest Column - Covers
I love writing about music and songwriting and write a regular column for excellent website Songwriting Magazine. My latest column is now online and this time I’m discussing the popularity of artists recording cover versions as well as sharing some tips on how to cover a song more creatively, as well as looking at some of the most enduring covers:
http://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/lisa-redford-cover-versions/20508
Free Downloads at SoundCloud
As well as original songs, there are remixes and covers of songs at my SoundCloud page. Some of the songs I've recently recorded or performed live are by Elbow, Ryan Adams, The Supremes, Bastille, The Arctic Monkeys and many more:
https://soundcloud.com/lisaredford
New Video
Doing a live cover of this beautiful classic song ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’ http://youtu.be/bt2OCaGw2rs
Interview with French music website:
http://www.rocknreviews.net/Interview/Lisa-Redford/Interview.html
All the very latest news is at my Facebook page www.facebook.com/lisaredfordmusic
and Twitter www.twitter.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/lisaredfordmusic
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas!
All Things Norfolk business member, singer-songwriter and music tutor Lisa Redford has written and recorded a brand new song at home during the lockdown "From Afar"
Lisa got her inspiration for writing this song when walking in her local area in Norwich and seeing a poster in a window which said "know you are loved from afar" . The song is all about missing loved ones but knowing that we can still love and care from them "From Afar" until we meet again. Once the song was written Lisa then recorded an acoustic version of it from her home studio.
We highly recommend that you take a listen to "From Afar" by visiting https://lisaredford.bandcamp.com/track/from-afar and support this talented local artist by purchasing the song digitally for £1 . You can also view the video by visiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfnukKmLcqc
Breckland Council’s work to support vulnerable residents through the coronavirus pandemic has been boosted by a donation from Norwich City Football Club and Norwich City Community Sports Foundation.
There are more than 3,600 people in the district who the NHS consider to be ‘extremely vulnerable’ and the council is supporting them by making welfare calls and, where needed, distributing medicines and food parcels.
The club and its foundation recently boosted the local effort by donating 120 parcels to the council, containing essential non-perishable food items such as tinned goods and dried foods. The boxes also included hand sanitiser, toilet roll, sweet treats, a NCFC gift and a note from celebrity chef and Canaries shareholder Delia Smith.
The support is part of the club and foundation’s Canaries COVID-19 Community Support Project which has seen £200k donated by the football club’s players, staff and directors, to help the county respond to covid-19.
All Things Norfolk has teamed up with Paul Dickson Books to give you a chance to win a collection of fabulous local books.
Paul Dickson Books is an independent Publishing House in Norwich, working with Norfolk writers and titles include Ink in my Blood - my half centiry in newspapers by Neil Haverson which was finalist in the East Anglian Book Awards 2018, Biography and Memoir.
Paul and his team have put together the following package of books as a prize to the lucky winner and there is something here for all members of the family to enjoy:
Local charity, The Benjamin Foundation, has announced its annual Sleep Out fundraising events with Norwich City and Ipswich Town Football Clubs hosting this year’s events.
Taking place on Thursday 19th November, the Norwich Sleep Out will be held at Norwich City Football Club, Carrow Road with the Ipswich Sleep Out taking place at Ipswich Town Football Club on Portman Road on 5th November.
The annual Sleep Out fundraising events support The Benjamin Foundation’s work in Norfolk and Suffolk to prevent youth homelessness by inviting people to spend one night sleeping outside so others don’t have to. Money raised through sponsorship helps their work to tackle the homelessness problem locally by providing a home and support to over 100 vulnerable young people aged 16 to 25 every night. The Benjamin Foundation also gives them the skills they need so they can go on to forge independent lives.
On Friday 28 February, over 275 children from 8 local schools attended open rehearsals at the Auden Theatre in Holt.
The children, aged between 7 and 12 were invited to hear members of the London Mozart Players performing pieces in rehearsal, ahead of their public performance later that evening. Amongst the programme was Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 performed by horn player Ben Goldscheider, who was the winner of Brass Section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year winner 2016, when he was 18 years old.
Saturday (29th) saw over 80 young brass, strings and woodwind musicians taking in a free workshop to perform as an orchestra. For the workshop, specialist music tutor Helen Stowell of the Norfolk Music Service specially arranged a range of pieces from Mozart’s Horn Concerto to Havana, by Camilla Cabello. For many of these young musicians, this was their very first ensemble performance and a unique moment to play great orchestral pieces with other musicians.