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CANADIAN FOLK SONGWRITER TERRA SPENCER TOURS THE UK IN APRIL 2027
Saturday, April 17, 2027 · 8:00 PMReading St Mary's Church
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- Doors & Bar 7pmMusic 8pmBad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, hairy dogs, questionable tattoos...all are fair game for funeral director-turned-songwriter (and 2026 Canadian Folk Music award winner for English Songwriter of the Year) Terra Spencer. The songs are good ones, judging from the accolades her four albums have received, and from the caliber of collaborators like Ben Caplan, Dave Gunning, and David Francey, who welcomed Terra as a co-writer and performer on his JUNO-winning album 'The Breath Between'. Cinematic storytelling is a hallmark of many great Canadian folk songwriters, but in Terra's case, it is charged with the wood-paneled '70s warmth of Elton John, Karen Carpenter, and Jackson Browne. As a fun-loving and fearless solo performer, Terra has played some of Canada's most renowned festival stages, including Mariposa, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, and Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival, where her Maritime waltz "Lunenburg Moon" has become an unofficial anthem. Think Steve Poltz and Carole King's East Coast cousin.Terra’s passion for songwriting came later in life, after being hired on as a backup singer while scooping ice cream at a festival by country performer Ryan Cook. Their travels set the stage for Terra's solo debut in 2018, blooming into a career that quickly overshadowed her funeral ambitions, taking her across Canada and to the US, UK, and Germany, often in the company of the cream of Canadian folk.Featuring guests including Matt Andersen, Stephen Fearing, and Ian Sherwood, Terra's fourth album 'Sunset' was named the 2024 Penguin Eggs Roots Music Canada Critics' Choice Album of the Year (alongside Julian Taylor's 'Pathways') and 2025 Music Nova Scotia Folk/Roots Recording of the Year, and garnered her ECMA nods for Folk Release and Roots Release of the Year and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Solo Artist of the Year.Her next project, ‘Conviction’, is a provocative collection of vignettes of justice and faith (and the failures of both) in a small town, set for release in spring 2027.Although her butterscotch voice, deft fingerstyle guitar, and gospel-charged piano make her a formidable musician, it's her onstage ease, spirited spontaneity, and crackling East Coast wit that make each show feel like a knee-to-knee conversation in a room of 5 or 500, on either side of the Atlantic. “Friggin' wicked. ” - Matt Andersen
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Reading St Mary's ChurchSt Mary's Avenue Purley on Thames Reading RG8 8BJ
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