The Pitmen Poets

When : 12th January 2017 - 7:30pm
Where : Darwen Library Theatre
Price : £17.50

From Billy Elliott to Close the Coalhouse Door, When the Boat comes in to The Pitmen Painters now hear the songs and stories of …The Pitmen Poets

The Pitmen Poets features four of North East England’s leading champions of its musical heritage:

Ex-Lindisfarne singer and songwriter Billy Mitchell, renowned singer and instrumentalist Bob Fox, leading exponent of Tyneside song Benny Graham, and much-covered Durham songwriter Jez Lowe individually and collectively celebrating the triumphs, tragedy, humour and hard times of North-East England’s coal mining tradition in an evening of music, song and spoken word, illustrated by atmospheric archive photography.

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