MARTYN JOSEPH returns to BROADMAYNE
In aid of St Martin’s Church
Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twen-ty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.
2023 is Martyn’s 31st year in the business, and started with him being part of BBC Radio 2’s “21st Cen-tury Folk “ project, with his song “Albert’s Place” and included appearances on BBC Breakfast TV, the Jeremy Vine and Ken Bruce shows on BBC Radio along with radio 4’s World at One.
He is gifted with the rare ability to speak to the soul with his expressive and poignant lyrics and has a career spanning 30 years, 33 albums, over a half a million record sales and thousands of live performances.
A unique talent driven by passion, social awareness, and love for his trade, he’s a jaw dropping guitar player who has developed a unique percussive style, teamed up with a powerful show stopping voice, and has been called “The Welsh Springsteen”
Concerned with making music that is relevant and vital to his audience, he engages with challenging narratives tackling the complexity of the human condition, underpinned with a promise of hope. In his own words “Really what I do is to try and write songs that might step up and make some sense of a moment in time. A good song makes you feel like you’re not alone in the world.”
Martyn is also founder, along with his wife Justine, of the “Let Yourself Trust”. LYT works alongside Martyn’s music to help give profile to and fund grassroots organizations across the globe. They have given away over half a million pounds to 14 different projects in the last 8 years.
He is hailed as a raconteur weaving tales on topical concerns, as well as stories on the fragility of love, with a magical ability to reach out to his listeners through his passion and humour. Stunning reviews single him out as an unmissable solo performer whose music stays with you long after the show has ended.
Website: www.martynjoseph.net Facebook: www.facebook.com/martynjosephwales
Twitter: www.twitter.com/martyn_joseph Instagram: @martynjosephmusic
“Stunning, heartfelt music” Bob Harris BBC Radio 2,
“Intelligent and enlightened songs are both energizing and provocative…from subtle tenderness to growly indignation. A Welsh national treasure” MOJO
“One of acoustic music’s most original voices, and most forward looking of his generation of singer/songwriters” Q Magazine
BROADMAYNE VILLAGE HALL, Cowleaze Road, Broadmayne, Dorchester, DT2 8EW
Sunday 26th November 2023, 7.30 for 8pm
Tickets £20
from www.martynjoseph.net/tour;
Cornerhouse Stores, Main Street, Broadmayne or
Tim Clayton on 07443 659912
A licensed bar will be available – cash only