"Matt Sage is an inspirational song maker and performer. After moving onto a boat on the Oxford Canal in the mid-nineties, he founded the now legendary Catweazle Club, Oxford’s performance space for ’music, poetry, song and all manner of acoustic artistry’, a proudly beating community heart, still going strong 13 years on.
Through The Catweazle Club, Matt met many of Oxford’s finest players, the most suitable of whom he drafted into the nascent Orchestra of Love to help record his wide-screen debut, Strange News From Another Star. This led to some slavish reviews, airplay and support from Gilles Peterson, an invitation from 1 Giant Leap to perform in New York, and at festivals throughout the UK.
In 2004, Matt founded Big Village to present some of the world’s finest musicians in beautiful and interesting venues throughout his adopted home county of Oxfordshire. Beginning its 5th series in Autumn 07, artists have so far included Hariprasad Chaurasia (India), Nuru Kane (Senegal), Juan Martin (Spain), Sierra Maestra (Cuba) and El Tanbura (Egypt).
As well as collaborating with many of the musicians who pass through, Matt has once again drawn upon the cream of the local scene to put together his eagerly anticipated second LP, due in Spring 2008."
Buy the CD Strange News From Another Star OR score tracks on itunes
2 Songs Live at Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre: "Lilia" & "Song For Sam"
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"The King Of Everything"
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