SalfordOnline.com is delighted to announce the winner of our recent Ewan MacColl tribute concert ticket competition.
Marion Tenpenny was stunned to hear she’d won a pair of tickets to tonight’s Lowry show: ‘Blood & Roses – The Songs of Ewan MacColl’.
She told us: “I’m delighted to win the tickets, I’ve never even won as much as a raffle before!”
Marion entered last week’s competition and will take two seats at the Salford Quays theatre as MacColl’s third wife, US folk singer Peggy Seeger, takes to the stage to perform her legendary husband’s heaving songbook.
Tonight’s show marks the launch of ‘Joy of Living’, a double CD centenary tribute to the multi-talented Salfordian, who was born on Andrew Street in Broughton in 1915.
Credited with writing such classics as ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and the adopted anthem of Salford ‘Dirty Old Town’, MacColl’s influence still looms large today.
Additional contributors on the tribute album are evidence of MacColl’s far-reaching influence and include such impressive names as Billy Bragg, Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Damien Dempsey, David Gray, Christy Moore, Karine Polwart, and Martin Simpson.
Highlights include Steve Earle’s take on ‘Dirty Old Town’, Rufus and Martha Wainwright’s performance of ‘Sweet Thames Flow Softly’, Norma Waterson’s rendition of the plight of the travelers in ‘The Moving On Song’ and Bombay Bicycle Club’s moving version of ‘The Young Birds’.
