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Candlelit concert celebrates new album at Festival of Chichester
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06/06/2025
Candlelight, thousands of years of history and a new album will combine for two magical evenings in Chichester for singer-songwriter Emily Barden.
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Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, group arts editor at WC6 Newspapers and also chairman
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of the Festival of Chichester, which is why it's particularly pleasing that Emily has
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joined. Emily Barton has joined this year's Festival of Chichester for two really appealing
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sounding gigs for all sorts of reasons in the Novium June 26th, June 27th, by Candlelight
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it's the new album and what a place to play. Yes, I'm really excited and thank you so much
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for the festival making a venue like the Novium available to put on some Candlelit concerts,
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we're doing two dates, it'll be the same event twice because obviously it's such an intimate
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space, we've got 60 seats on the 26th and then 60 seats on the 27th and we're very hopeful
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that we will fill it with people to perform this new album for.
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And the venue obviously shapes the gig doesn't it to an extent, what can the venue do that
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will work on your favour, especially when you're interested in this?
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Well it's an experiment, I mean that's also exciting, it's something new for me, I've never
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performed there before, I really enjoy the thought of playing amongst the artefacts of something
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incredibly old and ancient that contain all of the stories and the history and who knows
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what those streets underneath Chichester, who knows what they've seen and who's trodden
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on them and what stories they've got and all my songwriting is generated through story and
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narrative and so I like the idea of being in a space, sharing stories that come from me
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sort of on top of the stories of Chichester. I think it will be a slightly magical feel with the candle lit,
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it'll be dark and shadowy and it'll feel like you've slept away from hopefully sunny bright Chichester
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on a summer evening and come into this little world where we can just share some acoustic music
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together it'll be an intimate performance. It sounds lovely and focusing on your most recent album
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late last year. Absolutely, it will be majority of the material I'm performing will be from Vapor Trails
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which yeah was released last October and I've been gigging it in varying different places and I've got
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a few gigs this summer where I'll be showcasing it. I'll put in a couple of choice covers of songs that
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influenced me or by artists that I particularly like and also I've written some stuff since the
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album because you just don't stop do you so I will be adding some more recent things in so
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hopefully there'll be something brand new for everybody who comes to watch it. It sounds super
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brilliant, well lovely to speak to you again Emily, fantastic that you're part of the festival,
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want you in it every single year. I must just say that also we're going to be running a bar
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so if anybody's worried that it's a venue that doesn't feel like a normal sort of musical venue
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do not panic you'll still be able to get a glass of wine or a beer and come and watch with that in
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your hand. It sounds perfect, hopefully it goes brilliantly, thank you.
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