Tha Magic Lantern (UK) + Emily-Rose Sharkova in Newcastle

The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.

His fifth album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughter's birth and his father's death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says 'I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward' These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time - ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’

Performing an intimate set featuring duo moments with Emily-Rose Sharkova, The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rare emotional immediacy through Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism and piercing lyrics, crafting songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results. 

Opening the evening is songstress and musical shape-shifter Emily-Rose Sharkova. Emily-Rose is a kaleidoscope dream of contemporary folk who crafts unexpectedly beautiful moments with voice, keyboards and accordion. You will find her fronting Emily-Rose & The Wild Things, collaborating with Canadian Jaron Freeman-Fox in Shark & Fox, singing songs with duo Little Clouds and wielding accordion with chamber-folk group The Good Behaviours. Emily-Rose joined The Magic Lantern on his latest UK release tour, and so this will be a very special reunion of musical souls at the Press Bookhouse.

6pm Doors with music at 6:30pm