THE next concert in Wiveliscombe’s Silver Street Sessions series will feature two of the UK acoustic/folk scene’s finest singer-songwriters, Steve Tilston and Jez Lowe.

The concert on Thursday, March 30, at Cotleigh Brewery, Wiveliscombe, will be filled with songs and music, chat and banter – and intimate insights into their approach to their craft.

Lowe received a double nomination in the 2015 BBC Folk Awards – Best Singer and Best New Song. He tours with his band The Bad Pennies and with The Pitmen Poets, and is a principal writer on the award-winning BBC series The Radio Ballads. He is one of the busiest live performers in the country and his songs are among the most widely sung by others.

Steve Tilston has been described as ‘a complete guitarist’, ‘a singer-songwriter of rare talent’ and ‘absurdly accomplished’. He has toured with John Renbourn’s Ship of Fools, traditional singer Maggie Boyle, with Martin Allcock and Pete Zorn as WAZ!, Ballet Rambert and with daughter Martha.

He is the writer of classics The Slipjigs and Reels, The Naked Highwayman and Here’s to Tom Paine, and his songs have been covered by a who’s who of the folk scene.

He has won a BBC Folk Award – Best Original Song, appeared on Later with Jools Holland and BBC4 Songwriters Circle. He has also published a novel.

For more information on the concert phone 01984 623308.