Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter Patty Griffinreturns to the UK this month for the launch of her first album of new songs in six years, American Kid.

Patty was a member of Band of Joy, the group in which leader Robert Plant and his cohorts meld British and American folk, rock and spiritual music. Plant co-wrote and performed on three songs on Patty’s new album including the first single “Ohio”

You can watch the remarkable video for this song here:

Patty Griffin will be performing on LATER LIVE on Tues 14th May and LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND on Fri 17th May with Robert Plant.  

She will also be giving an in-store performance at Rough Trade East on Thursday 16th May.

This performance will feature Robert Plant on harmony vocals.

http://www.roughtrade.com/events/2013/5

PATTY GRIFFIN TO TOUR UK IN SUMMER 2013

July

19^th - Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead (0191 443 4661)

20^th - Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music (0161 907 5200)

21^st - Perth, Perth Theatre (01738 621 031)

23^rd - Milton Keynes, The Stables (01908 280800)

24^th - Birmingham, Glee Club (0871 472 0400)

25^th - London, Union Chapel (0871 220 0260)

26^th - Cambridge, Cambridge Folk Festival

The Civil Wars have just announced a brand new self titled album to be released “soon”.

Please visit http://thecivilwars.com/ for more information.