Dan Whitehouse continues to tour his acclaimed A Night Of Glass show….news of a handful of special dates on the schedule.

Three of the October dates on Dan Whitehouse’s A Night Of Glass toour are of particular note. He’ll be joined by Swedish producer/composer/multi instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunggren with whom Dan has collaborated on all three of his glass related albums (Voices From The Cones, The Glass Age and Reflections On The Glass Age) as well as a remix of the track Tomorrow from previous album Dreamland Tomorrow. 

Songs from these projects have now been gathered together for ‘A Night Of Glass’, a simple but hypnotic live experience. Dan takes audiences deep into the heart of glass in its myriad manifestations, his expressively nuanced crystalline vocals, a hint of Bowie here, a touch of Cohen there, effortlessly mining a wealth of emotions and ideas. 

This is the first time the pair will tour together, Dan and Gustaf will be playing songs from these collaborations together, and Gustaf will also play music from his own beautiful release ‘Floreanna’

Dates:
2^nd October: Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham with Gustaf Ljungrren
3^rd October: The Ropewalk, Barton Upon Humber with Gustaf Ljungrren
4^th October: The Finnish Church, Rotherhithe via Tuned In London with Gustaf Ljungrren

Dan and the project will feature in the October episode of Matthew Bannister’s Folk On Foot podcast.

Over the past two years, acclaimed Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has been in a transparently reflective mood with three albums all themed around the physical and metaphorical nature of glass. On The Glass Age, produced by  Gustaf Ljunggren and inspired by keeping in contact with his young son living in Japan, he explored how, in terms of communication – both positively and negatively – we have become a screen-fixated society exchanging virtual emotions with an emoji or a coded text, our smartphones as indispensable an appendage as an opposable thumb. As the song Campfire succinctly premarks, “When you change the way you look at things/ Watch the things you look at start to change”.

This was followed by Voices From The Cones, a folk-charting award-nominated album that approached glass through a different lens, an Arts Council funded radio ballads styled project commemorating the history and legacy of glassmaking in Stourbridge in the heart of the Midlands, the epicentre of the nation’s glassmaking industry for over 400 years. A social history song cycle, the songs drew on both interviews and oral archive material, both playful and poignant, from some 100 former glassworkers who had been the industry’s molten heart.

Then came Reflections On The Glass Age, a mirror image of the electronic pulses of the first album refracted through acoustic reinterpretations, intimately sung and played to distill the sweet melancholia of the material.

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