Emmanuelle Parrenin (FR) & Jean-Fabien Dijoud + Alfie Jones + Matt Kennedy (BMC)

Tuesday, 4 November 2025 at 19:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

The Holloway is proud to present an intimate gig with French folk legend Emmanuelle Parrenin. Emmanuelle Parrenin is a French folk singer, harpist and hurdy-gurdy player who was first active in the late 1960s and 1970s as part of "le mouvement folk". In 1974 Parrenin released an album with Phil Fromont called "La Maurmariée", developing a "reputation for stark and intelligent interpretations of traditional music." By the mid-1970s Parrenin had gained a reputation with traditional and folk music. With Fromont and Claude Lefebvre, Parrenin released a second, more progressive, album "Chateau Dans Les Nuages" in 1976, with included "Eastern elements and general strangeness". Her only solo album, "Maison Rose" was released in 1977. The title refers to the house she grew up in, and the musical influences she imbibed there. The album took "the revived instruments of le mouvement folk out into new territory". Apart from Plume Blanche, Plume Noire by Jean-Claude Vannier, she wrote all the work…