This Flight Tonight - The Songs of Joni Mitchell - Touring UK '24

Tour dates '24
David Crosby *Fine Singing*
Bob Harris *Beautiful*
Mark Radcliffe *Sublime*
Barnoldswick Music and Arts 18th Jan ‘24- Sold Out
Celtic Connections DryGate, Glasgow 19th Jan ‘24- Sold Out
Black Box, Belfast 21st Jan ‘24 - Sold Out
The Fire Station, Sunderland, 4th Feb ‘24 Full House
The Robin Wolverhampton 11th Feb ‘24 Full House
Queens Hall Narbeth 16th Feb ‘24- Sold out
Chapel Arts Bath 17th Feb ‘24- Sold Out
Roses Theatre Tewksbury 13th April ‘24
Beardy Folk Fest 15th June ‘24
The Witham Barnard Castle 4th July ‘24
Byre Theatre 5th July '24
Kirkgate Theatre 6th July ‘24
The Irish Club Warrington 7th July ‘24
The Minack Cornwall 26th July ‘24 (on sale 5th Feb)
The Lights Andover 27th July ‘24
Theatre Brycheiniog 28th July ‘24
The Spring, Havant 2nd August '24
Electric Theatre 8th Sept '24
Acapela Studio 27th Sept ‘24 - Sold Out
Old Woollen Leeds 20th Oct ‘24
Zervas & Pepper Presents - This Flight tonight..
An intimate acoustic Tribute to the music of JONI MITCHELL.
Acclaimed singer songwriters Zervas & Pepper present 'This Flight Tonight' an intimate acoustic tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell.. featuring songs such as 'California', 'Blue', 'Woodstock' 'Both Sides Now', 'Carey', 'Coyote', 'A Case Of You', and many more..
Joni Mitchell is one of the most influential artists of the modern age, rising to stardom in the late 1960's, Her music and songwriting is the jewel in the crown of the Woodstock generation. Bursting onto the scene with a sound entirely her own, Joni earned the respect of her musical peers and the love of her audiences Worldwide.
Joni would go on to mine the depths of her emotive landscape and push the boundaries of songcraft and artistry for over five decades.
Mitchell's albums and songs are widely recognised as masterpieces, standards that would become the soundtrack to the lives of countless fans throughout the world and continue to draw and inspire new generations of fans.
Zervas & Pepper are Welsh Singer/Songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper that have been creating and performing original music for over a decade professionally. The duo and their recording/touring band enjoy cult success on the UK and European Folk/Americana scene and have released five critically-acclaimed studio albums and undertaken countless headline and support tours, receiving strong national and international network radio support throughout their career.
'This Flight Tonight' is a celebration of Joni Mitchell's music that the duo have had in the making for many years, and now 2023 will see them finally take this show on the road for the first time. The carefully crafted set list will feature songs from Joni's million-selling albums such as Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, For The Roses, Court and Spark, featuring many cuts from her 1972 landmark release 'Blue'.
Paul Zervas says “Joni's music has so much depth, musically, lyrically and melodically, there's so much to get your head around when attempting to recreate this classic songbook.. As a guitarist who learned to play from listening to Joni's incredible catalog, it's just staggering the sheer amount of alternate tunings, variances of chord positions and nuanced harmonic voicings that have gone into all these songs. We aim to be as authentic as possible when performing this music as it's these important facets that the fans want to hear, with Joni's music the tunings, chord voicing are as important as her lyrics, its the interplay between to two that create the full picture of Mitchell's evocative landscape.”
As young songwriters Zervas & Pepper like many music fans we were beguiled by Mitchell's music.. “this music had such a profound effect on me that I completely immersed myself within Joni's albums. Musically complex, lyrically intriguing.. I became an avid listener.. I learned to use my voice in ways I hadn't for my early bands” Kathryn recalls..
We've thought long and hard about the type of show we ourselves would love to see as lifelong fans of Joni Mitchell's music, We kept returning to what we consider to be the nucleus of Mitchell's work, that pivotal break-out period 1968-1976 Reprise/Asylum Record era with the voice, guitar and piano front and centre. An intimate acoustic vibe that should feel like the audience is having a private listening session at Joni's house in Laurel Canyon during the summer of love. Whilst we may not be able to actually fly in Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor or Mama Cass.. we hope to invoke that spirit in our show.
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[@garethsymonds3526]

Amazing! I can't wait to see you performing this live.

[@southendbusker7534]

🙏🙏🙏

[@malcolmthornhill9165]

Looks like, sounds like, as good as it gets? 🤷‍♀️🤔