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WXPN Presents Billy Bragg The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024
16 Oct 08:00 PM
Until 16 Oct, 11:30 PM 3h 30m

WXPN Presents Billy Bragg The Roaring Forty USA Tour 2024

Scottish Rite Auditorium 315 White Horse Pike, Collingswood, NJ 08107
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In 2023 Billy Braggis celebrating a remarkable 40 years as Britain’s favourite folk singer, songwriter and campaigner. To mark this significant landmark, he has released an acclaimed career-spanning box set ‘TheRoaring Forty’and has played to sell-out crowds across the world.In November he performed his most famous song ‘A New England’ on Later With Jools Holland almost exactly 40 years to the day that he debuted the song on The Tube (also presented by one Jools Holland!).

Galvanized in the late 70s by The Clash and an aversion to the austere policies of Margaret Thatcher, Billy set out to inspire political engagement and empathy. He has performed numerous benefit shows for the miners, the Labour Party, CND, the jobless and many more, and has run the Left Field political stage at Glastonbury for the last 20 years.

Billy has released 11 solo studio albums, three albums of Woody Guthrie lyrics set to contemporary music by Billy and Wilco (the mermaid Avenue albums) and one album with JoeHenry. He released a mini albumBridges Not Wallsin 2017. His latest studio album, the acclaimed ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’came out in 2021.

Billy Bragg added the best-selling author to his CV with the success of his claimed 2017 book Roots, Radicals & Rockers–How Skiffle Changed The World. He has written two books of political analysis-The Progressive Patriot: A Search For Belonging(2006) and The Three Dimensions of Freedom (2019).

Billy won the Outstanding Contribution To British Music Award at the prestigious IvorsAwards in 2018. Born and raised in Barking, East London, Billy has a street named after him in his hometown–BraggClose.This yearBillyhas been honoured with a pavement plaque on the Camden Music Walk Of Fame(previous recipients include Madness, Amy Winehouse, The Who, DavidBowie, and The Kinks)

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