Three Chords and the Truth UK

Some artists have a Las Vegas residency; Edwina Hayes has carved out a Kings Heath one. Now running into several consecutive years, the Kitchen Garden on New Year's Day is the domain of this East Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter. January 1st does not have a lot of competition on the gig circuit but credit due if you can entice folks out of their home in sufficient numbers to start the year as you mean to go on. The sold out sign went up a couple of days before the event and mix of devoted friends, family and fans mingled with curious gig goers and those eager to get off the mark in the refined realm of the serenely cultivated song. Edwina Hayes has been an active professional musician for over twenty-five years. The early years were defined by recorded albums of original songs and lauded by the music press. Recent times have seen a resourceful live performer adept at delivering carefully spun covers alongside her own songs that are thinner on the ground than the album years. Eithe...