Gabriel Moreno & Friends

New Roots presents… GABRIEL MORENO & FRIENDS

GABRIEL MORENO is a Gibraltarian poet and singer songwriter, and is the current Cultural Ambassador of Gibraltar. After periods spent living in Barcelona, New York and across South America, he now resides in London. Likened to poetical singers Nick Cave, Bill Callahan and Leonard Cohen, he has released four albums to date, his most recent being 2022’s The Year of the Rat. Released in February, the album received rave press reviews and was championed by BBC Radio 6 Music. Gabriel has since been busy touring it across the country with his band The Quivering Poets.

In 2022, Gabriel and the Quivering Poets trio (Ned Cartwright on piano and Alice Mary Williamson on clarinet) performed on the main stage of The Great British Folk Festival, ELY Folk Festival, Rochester Folk Festival, Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, Wilderness Festival, Costa Del Folk Festival (Stratford-Upon-Avon), Blues and Roots Festival Cornwall and many other festivals around the country. Tonight sees a special celebration of his music, with guest appearances from Michele Stodart (The Magic Numbers), Adam Beattie (Adam Beattie & the Consultants), Jeremy Tuplin, Pearl Fish, and Dominic Silvani.

“ A seductive acoustic outpouring of hope in a dark place, Gabriel Moreno looks to the UK’s future with a humble, sanguine spark of light” – Mitch Mosk, Atwood Magazine, New York

 

 

NEW ROOTS is committed to promoting events that shine a light on up and coming talent in the UK alt-folk and contemporary roots music scene.  It’s committed to providing artists with an environment that is sympathetic to what they do, giving musicians the respect they and their music deserve – for this reason we ask for no talking and no use of mobile phones while artists are performing. Our music policy comes from the kitchen table, the roots of public performance- intimate, acoustic based, high quality musicianship with as little interference between performer and listener as possible.

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