Virg is Back
Sat 10th April at 7.30pm in The Ron Barber Studio Theatre
Cantos & Country Music
Another opportunity to see this entertaining and seductive mix of Poetry, Comedy and heart-twanging Country Music. One time Crescent member, award-winning poet, novelist, playwright, and Presenter of the BBC’s Poetry Please!, Gareth Owen, returns to the Crescent along with - all the way from Intercourse, Tennessee - the one and only, cult legend of Country Music -Virg Clenthills.
What the critics said:
Owen holds the audience spellbound with a performance of great virtuosity. Maurice Patching, B’ham Post and Mail.
A torrent of jovial mockery…hard to beat for intelligent high spirits. J.W. Lambert, The Sunday Times.
Gripping and brilliant. Sy Syna. News of New York
And as for Virg , well: If you’ve ever woken up in an empty bed, blear-eyed and smelling of cheap perfume, with a broken heart in one hand and an empty bourbon bottle in the other – Virg was singing just for you.
‘I caught Virg’s show in Birmingham. He sings for bar room loners, for the disenchanted and the broken-hearted. I laughed till I cried. I love him.’ Ruby Turner, Soul singer.
‘Musical open-heart surgery’ The Lancet.
‘Virg is Country. You can’t go further down that road unlessn you die’ Nashville Courier.
Don’t Miss it!
Tickets: £8
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