📢 Tidelines and Freckfest present: Things Found in Books with Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine
📅 Date: 7.30pm, Saturday 9 August 2025
📍 Venue: Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
🎟️ Book tickets via:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/harbour-arts-centre/t-pqjmkzk
Tidelines and Freckfest are delighted to present 'Things Found in Books' at the Harbour Arts Centre in Irvine on Saturday 9th August at 7.30pm. A fantastic concert combining books and music!
Two of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters, Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine sing songs and tell the story behind their new album - Things Found In Books - a collection of songs inspired by the found objects, ephemera and fragments of lives discovered in the pages of second-hand books.
The story begins in the secondhand bookshop in Culzean Castle. A noticeboard titled “Things Found In Books” displays items left behind in pages: postcards, photographs, old receipts, letters, notes - mementos once tucked away and now disconnected from their owners. Drawing out universal themes of memory, love, longing, and hope. The result is a poignant and beautiful album, released alongside a richly illustrated, tactile companion book.
Boo Hewerdine is an Ivor Novello Award-nominated songwriter and producer, known for penning “Patience of Angels” (a worldwide hit for Eddi Reader) and producing Reader’s celebrated Sings the Songs of Robert Burns. Widely recognised as one of the UK’s greatest lyricists, Boo now lives and works in Glasgow
“One of the best songwriters we have” – The Independent on Sunday
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s most powerful and poetic voices in contemporary folk. She has performed live for BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris and is a graduate of the University of the West of Scotland’s Masters in Songwriting & Performance. Yvonne’s songs combine lyrical sensitivity with emotional depth.
“Just stunning music” - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
Tickets on sale now:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/harbour-arts-centre/t-pqjmkzk
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