Danni Nicholls
Hobgoblin Stage, Friday 2015
Performing as part of the Glovebox Sessions on Friday. From a young age, Danni was soaking up American folk, country and rock n roll music from her Grandmother’s record collection in her small home town of Bedford. When she inherited her Uncle Heathcliff’s 1962 Burns London Shortscale Jazz guitar (rumoured to have belonged to Billy Fury!) aged 16, all those influences came pouring back out in the form of her own original material and has been flowing ever since!
She met Producer Chris Donohue (The Civil Wars, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant) in London in 2011 through a mutual friend whilst Chris was in the UK playing bass with Emmylou Harris as one of her Red Dirt Boys. The pair hit it off and have now made two albums together with Chris at the helm and some of Nashville’s finest musicians featuring on the tracks!
Danni recently returned from making her second album in Nashville. Mockingbird Lane will be released later in 2015!
“Slips effortlessly between smoky soul, folk-pop and heart-wrenching alt-country, all in a rich voice somewhere between Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss.”Andy Fyfe, Q Magazine
This band have been programmed at Wychwood by Glovebox, a West Oxfordshire based promotions company that aims to bring amazing live music to the regions. From established names like Robyn Hitchcock, Son of Dave, John Smith, Lisa Knapp, Boo Hewerdine, Danny & The Champions of The World and Martin Carthy to up and coming acts they are fast getting a reputation for staging superb events.