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Patsy will be playing at the New Roscoe in January (Monday 25th), where she will be appearing with US based singer songwriter, Jason Feddy. Originally from Harrogate, Jason moved to California several years ago, and this will be his first Leeds appearance for some time. They each will do a solo set, and then plan to finish the evening by playing some songs together. For tickets and info, contact jfk@LiveInLeeds.com

Patsy is currently working on a new album, which will be released in Autumn 2010.

Patsy played a series of shows throughout the UK , along with Clive Gregson, who accompanied her on electric and acoustic guitars, accordion and mandolin. She thoroughly enjoyed touring with Clive, and the concerts were an outstanding success, so they plan to do another run of shows in Autumn 2010, starting at Otley Folk Festival in September, where she will release her new album.

2009 LIVE DATES

See GIGS page for details of 2009 live dates, including appearances with Clive Gregson, Boo Hewardine and Becky Mills.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Patsy is pleased to announce that her new CD was voted as one of the top five debut album's of 2008 by Jason Ritchie, Editor of Get Ready to Rock and Classic News Wire. Jason writes:

'PATSY MATHESON ‘Little Piece Of England' Indie (Former Waking The Witch member records an acoustic based album and one to keep coming back to).'

LATE GIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Patsy has been invited to play on the beautiful Isle of Bute in West Scotland at the end of this month. She will be doing two performances – Sat 31stJjanuary(evening) and Sunday 1st February (lunchtime) at the Victoria Hotel , Rothesay – see click here for info. This will follow her performance in the equally beautiful Ulverston, South Lakes on Friday 30th.

AUTUMN SHOWS WITH CLIVE GREGSON

Following the success of October's Rotherham appearance when she was joined by world class singer/songwriter and guitar player Clive Gregson, Clive will be accompanying Patsy at a number of her shows throughout 2009 – for details keep an eye on the gigs page, or on Myspace.

Patsy continues to build on her reputation as a talented and engaging performer with a run of successful live shows throughout November. She was joined on stage at her recent York show by singer-songwriter Gina Dootson, who also appeared as her guest on ‘A Little Piece of England'. Click here for Northern Sky's review of the gig…

A couple of songs from the recent Leeds show at the Roscoe have been posted up on You Tube - click here to view.

1st November 2008, sees the release of “Bandstand”, the third in the "Fatea Showcase Sessions" from Fatea Magazine/From Cambridge & Beyond.  The 4th release scheduled 1st February 2009, is intended for solo artists and will be called “Aces”. We're delighted to announce that Patsy has been invited to be a part of the project and a track from ‘A Little Piece of England' will be included. Watch this space for more details, and see Fatea Showcase Sessions on Myspace.

Patsy's song, “Addiction to You” is part of the current playlist on WomensRadio Independent Channel on Live365. You can listen in by clicking here.

Patsy was recently interviewed by Tim Moon as part of his BCB Folk Show. The interview was broadcast on October 27th , but a full transcript of the interview will appear in the next edition of Yorkshire Folk Mag, Tykes News. Here's what Tim said about ‘A Little Piece of England'…

‘as wonderful as, well, a very wonderful thing. 'A Little Piece of England', the CD of which I speak, is a pleasure to share time with…'

Get Ready to Rock magazine recently interviewed Patsy for their excellent on line site. For the full transcript, click here.

Patsy has really enjoyed the first few shows of the tour, and was particularly pleased to welcome Clive Gregson to the show put on by the Classic Rock Society in Rotherham on October 29 th . Clive joined Patsy on guitar for the whole gig, which was a real unexpected treat for everyone who attended. For info on Clive see - www.clivegregson.com

Rememberance Day – Patsy's song ‘Precious Little Soldier', which is one of the songs on ‘A Little Piece of England' was featured as one of three contemporary songs for Rememberance Day on Spiral Earth Website, alongside songs by world class singer/songwriters Steve Knightley and Martyn Joseph. You can see the feature and listen to the three songs on www.spiralearth.co.uk

‘A Little Piece of England' was released on October 6th , and rave reviews continue to come in thick and fast. Here's a couple of new ones on two great sites that are both worth checking out.

www.americana-uk.com - ‘all in all, a triumph' – Jeremy Searle 

www.freshdeermeat.com - ‘further evidence to support Matheson's position as one of the UK 's great contemporary female folk musicians' – Stephen Jasper

"Little Piece of England " is universally available for download. Try payplay.fm/patsymatheson

and you can buy the CD in all the usual retail outlets or click here to purchase from AMAZON.

Patsy's first solo CD for eleven years is due to be released on October 6th . Already preparations are well underway for the release, and rave reviews are coming in thick and fast.

Along with producer/guitarist Sam Bartholomew, Patsy will be performing live throughout October, November and into 2009 – see gigs page for venue and ticket information.  They made their debut appearance as a duo last weekend at a private gig in Londesborough (see photo), East Yorkshire, and received a rapturous reception…

Radio Appearances…

Patsy and Sam made their first live Radio performance as a duo on BBC Lancashire's, The Drift' show on Fri 12th September, when they played five songs from the forthcoming album.  Phil Brown, the presenter, said of the music ‘'wonderful stuff, full of energy and driving rhythms – Lamb to Slaughter (the song Patsy wrote after watching a documentary about Amy Winehouse) was awesome''

As well as chatting to Paul Franks on his drive show on BBC West Midlands on Tuesday 23rd September, Patsy will also be interviewed live by Sue Marchant on her show on BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Essex, and BBC Radio Suffolk on October 1st at around 9pm. Graeme Scott at Leith fm will be chatting down the phone to Patsy during his show on October 16th.

Patsy and Sam are also delighted to announce that they will be appearing live as guests of the D'Urbervilles at BBC Radio Leeds on Sunday 28 th September at around 8pm.

Next month, they will be shooting over to Lancashire again to appear as guest of Jamie Blatchley at Chorley Folk Radio on Nov 18th .