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When: 7.30pm on Friday 19 September 2025
Where: Hallé St Peter’s, 40 Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6BF
We’re delighted to welcome James Yorkston and Nina Persson back – this time, to Hallé St Peter’s, with guest Faith Eliott!
Acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced his brand new album Songs for Nina and Johanna to be released via Domino on 22 August 2025. The album is his sixteenth on Domino and his third to be recorded in Stockholm in conjunction with members of The Second Hand Orchestra. Nina Persson (The Cardigans), who teamed up with James on his previous critically-acclaimed album The Great White Sea Eagle, this time shares singing duties with Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit), the two of them singing separately with James on five and four tracks respectively.
For this concert, James joins forces with Nina once more to perform songs from both albums.
‘Some of the most beautiful and moving music Yorkston’s made, which is high praise indeed’ – Allmusic
‘A work of real refinement, ‘The Great White Sea Eagle’ is peppered with jewels’ – Clash Music
‘It’s a beautiful, hand made collection of natural and unforced songs to be treasured’ – Under The Radar
Special guest is Faith Eliott. Faith Eliott is a songwriter and visual artist. Born in Minneapolis, they moved to Scotland nearly two decades ago. Through storytelling and world-building, they illustrate intuitive landscapes populated by hagfish, Pleistocene volcanoes, cursed memes, and late-Renaissance apocryphal monsters lurking in the aisles of Asda. Sonically, Eliott grounds themself in a stripped-back, lyric-driven songwriting approach that evolves through the recording process to incorporate orchestral elements – often contributed by frequent collaborator Robyn Dawson – along with electronic textures and found sounds. Their latest album Dryas was released on Lost Map Records on 30 May 2025. It follows two previous releases, Impossible Bodies (2019, OK Pal Records) and Insects (2016, Song, by Toad Records), both of which received critical acclaim, including coverage from The List and The Scotsman, as well as national radio play on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, and 6 Music.
This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
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