SETH LAKEMAN – “A PILGRIMS TALE” //Absolute/BMG// (Released 7th February)

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£22.99 – 1xLP

If you’d never heard anything about the Mayflower and the birth of the modern USA

these words and music could be your primer.” – Seth Lakeman

Multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman releases his new album ‘A Pilgrim’s Tale’ on February 7^th 2020, in a year that marks four centuries since The Mayflower ship departed the UK. The album will be released amidst a selection of UK concerts where Seth will visit locations significant to The Mayflower tale, including dates in London, Plymouth, Immingham and Harwich (full details below). This stirring and beautiful record is narrated by the actor Paul McGann (Dr Who/Withnail and I/Hornblower/Luther), and features a host of guest performers including Cara Dillon, Benji Kirkpatrick, Ben Nicholls and Seth’s father Geoff Lakeman.

2020 marks the 400^th anniversary of The Mayflower ship setting off to the Americas. The ship carried British and Dutch passengers with hopes of fresh settlement, and who were famously met by the Wampanoag first nation tribe upon their arrival. Bottling the spirit of the 17th century pilgrimage, Seth has written and performed a selection songs that shape a fictional narrative of the journey, informed by extensive research from text such as the journals of William Bradford.

Tracklisting:

1. watch out
2. pilgrim brother
3. westward bound
4. a pilgrims warning
5. sailing time
6. the great iron screw
7. dear isles of England
8. saints and strangers
9. foreign man
10. bury nights
11. the digging song
12. mayflower waltz