Steel Skies In Concert

Thursday 3 June 8:00 pm
Venue: Hall Two, The Sage Gateshead
Tickets: A/B/C/D: £16.50 E: £7   Tel/ 0191 443 4661

When concertina maestro and composer Alistair Anderson composed ‘Steel Skies’ in 1982, it was described by The Guardian as “the finest, recent, original contribution to the tradition of English music”.

Tonight’s concert celebrates the reissue of the CD, described by fRoots as “a fully realised work which gains even more significance as the years pass. The range and balance of Anderson’s melodies take your breath away”.

“The Alistair Anderson Steel Skies instrumental suite originally came out in 1982... his vision in creating a fully realised new work, drawn from and naturally embedded into the musical traditions of the British Isles, gains even more significance as the years pass. It is the complete entity that is so impressive and even now the range and balance of Anderson’s melodies take your breath away.”
Colin Irwin fRoots 2010