Jake Thackray
Jake Thackray
| Website | https://jakethackray.com/ |
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| First Festival | 1980 |
| Most Recent Festival | 1980 |
Jake Thackray bought his show to Leominster Festival 1980, the first year, where he performed at The Royal Oak Hotel.
Programme Biographical Notes
JAKE THACKRAY, well known for his appearances on radio and television. is a comic songster whose unique style owes more, perhaps, to the French ballad tradition than to music hall. Benedict Nightingale, respected B.B.C. critic, wrote of a recent Thackray recording, ‘. . , he is fun, marvellous fun . . . moralist as well as poet, he celebrates love, sex, freedom as basic human rights, belonging to all."