Byres Road
Sat 29 Aug · 20:00 · £22
Award-winning Scottish Diva Terry Neason is back by popular demand! Enjoy the best of her eclectic, emotional roller-coaster of songs and dramatised poems; plus a few new bits ‘n bobs. Be prepared to laugh, cry ’n sigh. Terry's highly acclaimed one-woman shows have wowed audiences from Europe and Canada to Singapore, earning her five-star reviews and an Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe. Terry sings her own songs and other originals, as well as classic covers by The Waterboys, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Leonard Cohen, Dory Previn, Piaf and Jacques Brel. Terry recites poems by John Hegley, Brian Patten & W.B.Yeats. When Flying Solo, Terry gives Special Thanks to these musicians… backing tracks are original multi-instrumental arrangements provided and played by Brian Prentice and Graham Raine. "Magnificent… the most truly wonderful voice.” Paul O'Grady, BBC Radio 2 "She’s funny and powerful, young and old, tough and vulnerable; and her singing is taunting and tender, dark and bright, plaintive and radiant. She’s a virtuoso.” Financial Times "To say that Neason is versatile is to understate the case. She moves seamlessly from Jazz to Country, Blues to Folk. Neason is a one-woman multinational cabaret.” The Independent Terry's career highlights: “NOREEN” in GLASGOW GIRLS - UK & Irish Tour “TOP DOG” in Prisoner Cell Block H The Musical with LILY SAVAGE - London West End “ANNA” opposite Ian McDiarmid in The Government Inspector - The Almeida, London “EDITH PIAF” in the Play PIAF - Glasgow Citizens Theatre and The Kings Theatre THE TERRY NEASON SHOW - 6 Part Series Music & Humour for STV “MAW BROON” in The Maw Broon Monologues by Jackie Kay – Glasgow Tron Theatre “MEG DILLON” in The Hostage, directed by Jim Sheridan, Druid Theatre Tour of Eire “Children of Coincidence” with DORY PREVIN - RTE Television & Theatres in Dublin CAREER STARTED in Scotland with 7:84 Theatre Company & WILDCAT Stage Productions
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.