Hannah Williams & The Affirmations

Bristol Beacon and Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival Presents

Venue:

Bristol Beacon Foyer
Times:

18:30, 20:30
Date:

Thu 9 Sep 2021
Price:

£13.08 to £52.32 incl. booking fee
Ages:

All ages

Bristol Beacon and Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival are proud to present the welcome return of jazz to the Bristol Beacon foyer, with the aptly-named The Tonic Sessions – a celebration of women in music.

“Magnificent” (Craig Charles) Hannah Williams & The Affirmations are becoming an unstoppable force on the international soul scene. Gutsy and tender, Williams’ gospel-fuelled voice emerges powerfully from layers upon layers of psychedelic grooves, delivered by some of the UK’s most imaginative musicians. Fans of Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley will be enamoured with this “funkbomb” (Blues & Soul Magazine UK) of a band, who were championed by these late greats.

This is a seated, socially distanced show at Bristol Beacon Foyer, Trenchard St, Bristol BS1 5AR

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Hannah Williams and the Affirmations are the current darlings of the worldwide Soul scene. Having been sampled by Jay Z on the Grammy-nominated song “4:44”, they were catapulted around the globe. This has lead them to work with Tyler The Creator, Guy Chambers and Pete Rock, to name a few. They’ve been personally championed by Huey Morgan and the late, great masters Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley.

Williams turned heads worldwide when the hip-hop superstar sampled her heart-stopping vocals on ‘Late Nights & Heartbreak’ for the title track, ‘4.44’ on his 2017 album. In October 2019 Hannah and her exemplary, Bristol-based band the Affirmations delivered a definitive career statement with the drop-dead soulful new album 50 Foot Woman.

The album captures all of the visceral power of the band’s increasingly legendary live performances. Shades of classic Soul and Psychedelic Funk blend uniquely with modern-day flavours on a record destined to set the soul agenda for 2019 and far beyond. “I’ve never been as proud of anything in my entire career” says Hannah.

Since the release of this critically acclaimed album, Hannah and the Affirmations have been hard at work developing new material. They are delighted to share some of this new material alongside favourites from the previous 2 albums Late Nights And Heartbreak, 50 Foot Woman.