State of the Union

Show Name: State of The Union (Boo Hewerdine & Brooks Williams)

“Beautiful, classy playing and great songs” – Acoustic Magazine “Americana at its finest!” – fRoots STATE OF THE UNION return with their fourth album for Reveal Records and a concert tour in 2021. Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams as State of the Union, create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Their performances are consistently brilliant, equal parts emotive and entertaining. Audiences are still buzzing about their 2018 and 2019 appearances on the main stages at Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Costa del Folk, Wickham Festival and FolkEast. Boo Hewerdine is perhaps best known from his years fronting much loved English rock band The Bible but he has since enjoyed a solo career spanning over two decades and written thousands of published songs including those for Eddi Reader, Sia, Chris Difford, Kris Drever and KD Lang. His most recent album “Before” came out in Autumn 2019 on Reveal Records. Brooks Williams is an Americana singer-songwriter-guitarist, in 2020 celebrating 30 years touring and recording with tours in both the USA and the UK, as well as collaborations with Rab Noakes, Sloan Wainwright and Hans Theessink. His new album, “Work My Claim,” released in Spring 2020, features John McCusker, Christine Collister, Phil Richardson and Aaron Catlow.