Corn Exchange Mini Concerts: Scott Matthews

Friday 22 January 2021
Cambridge Corn Exchange - CB2 3QE
The Corn Exchange welcomes you back for a socially distanced “mini” concert. Grab your tickets and don’t forget your masks!

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If there’s one quality that defines the career of Scott Matthews, it’s this: evolution.

The singer/songwriter has challenged himself creatively during a career that has been characterised by rare quality. As Matthews gears up for the release of his seventh studio album, new horizons loom into view as he finds different ways to cast a spell.

The quality of Matthews’ craft is a given. The Ivor Novello-winning artist is part of a lineage that includes such greats as Buckley and Drake, John Martyn and Paul Simon. With guitar in hand and a voice that conveys raw emotion, he has long been established as one of the world’s foremost purveyors of song.

Introspective and reflective, combining blues and folk, mixing the ethereal with the empyrean, Matthews is a musical alchemist who transforms base metal to gold. He has expanded his sonic palette while making his new record, introducing new moods and musical textures as he addresses universal truths.

Having broken through with the much-loved Passing Stranger and more recently mastered the delicate art of one-man-and-a-guitar music with sparse musicianship and an otherworldly falsetto, through the records Home Pt IHome Pt II and The Great Untold, Matthews is travelling along new roads.

Waves of electronica are matched with big, chiming electric guitars as Matthews finds different colours for his canvass. His new work will be out later this year and it will be accompanied by a tour, during which he’ll revisit fan favourites from an extraordinary canon of work.


WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: This is a socially distanced event with a strictly limited number of people in attendance. Find out about everything we're doing to keep you safe below.

1. You may only purchase tickets to attend this event with other members of your household or support bubble. Please do not purchase tickets for anyone outside your household.

2. Please do not attend if you or a member of your household has experienced Covid-19 symptoms in the past 14 days – you will be given a no-quibble refund. Temperature checks will be in operation as you enter the venue.

3. Print your tickets at home or be prepared to display them on a smartphone. No tickets will be available on the door.

4. Face coverings will be mandatory at all times, except when eating or drinking in your seats.

For socially distanced events, a new seating configuration respecting a 1 metre plus distance will be in place. Our stewards will be on hand to direct you to where you are sitting.

Drinks and snacks will be available using the app Round, for delivery to your seats. You can read more about Round and download it here. There will be no service at the bar.

The show will end by 9.30pm to allow fans to leave the Corn Exchange safely.

We have been 'See It Safely' approved by the Society Of London Theatre and UK Theatre's 'See It Safely' campaign.

 

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