Well - Jack Harris comes from Builth, so he's reasonably local, and he's just been on Mike Harding's Folk programme on Radio 2. Mike Harding played a track from Jack Harris's new CD The Flame and the Pelican. If anyone wants to listen on iPlayer, the track is played at about 20 to 8.
I heard Jack Harris play at the Globe a while ago, and I was very impressed.
I only knew that I should listen to Mike Harding because I went along to the Open Mic last night at Kilverts. A chap called Les sang a few songs to his guitar, and mentioned Jack's appearance. He also had a few photos that he'd printed out after clearing them off his phone - of people performing at Kilverts.
"Chris looks a bit rock and roll there," was one comment (this is the Chris of The Green Book of Olwen Ellis - he sings sometimes, too).
Another photo was given to Tim the Gardener. "Only one person would read Virginia Woolf in wellies," said Les.
Last night there was, indeed, more Virginia Woolf, in honour of her 130th birthday - Tim read a piece about Peter the Porpoise, who had been captured and put in an aquarium. He also read a bit of Mervyn Peake's Letters from a Lost Uncle, in which the Uncle, accompanied by his servant (a turtle called Jackson), meets a polar bear in the Arctic, and only escapes by tickling it under the armpits!
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