Artist description Charlotte Peters Rock

Music Style Folk/country/Berlin Cabaret/Nostalgia/SeaSongs/AirWave/NewWave/SpaceWave

Musical Influences All

Similar Artists June Tabor, Joan Baez, Barbara Dickson, Anne Shelton

Artist History Folk Clubs, Festivals, Broadcasting, Fringe Events, Conferences in Switzerland, Austria and Russian Federation, (songs written by request), etc. for around ten years. Rising on own songwriting.

Group Members Charlotte Peters Rock

Instruments Voice and characterisation

Albums Flying Free

Press Reviews Reviews of Flying Free"It's a cracker and I shall be playing several tracks in weeks to come, starting with Poppin at Uncle's, on 18.9.99. Get in touch if you're ever in this area." - Pete Jennings - BBC Radio Suffolk"I've enjoyed listening to the CD and hope to play it on my next radio programme..The Wednesdays at 9pm Show.. (which goes out on) all BBC local radio stations between Kent and Devon, including Thames valley and as far north as Oxfordshire.As Organiser of the Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival, (England's biggest indoor folk festival), I wonder if you're performing at any venue in London or the south this Autumn..if so please send me details" - Peter Chegwyn - BBC Radio - and Organiser Gosport and Fareham Easter Festival"I found it interesting and varied and it takes a brave one to sing a complete programme of unaccompanied songs albeit interspersed with poems. But (her) range and diversity in dialects and material does I'm sure keep the attention of (her) public throughout (her) sessions.I shall include tracks from the album on my show and..will pass (her) CV on to the Dylan Thomas Centre here in Swansea. The best of luck.." - Dave Robinson - The Wave FM (96.4) and Swansea Sound (1170mw)"The CD has..good design..recording quality..does justice to Charlotte's singing voice. Charlotte is a wildly imaginative poet, not an operatic talent..(but)..I have paid good money to hear a lot worse in folk clubs and festivals...the range of her voice is well matched to her performance.Often witty and thought provoking, this is material many folk performers would envy, and the delivery would be beyond most.Technical tricks are used sparingly throughout.Recommended." - Flos Headford - Shreds & Patches - Autumn 1999."I have seen Charlotte working both as a singer and performance poet on many occasions. She has a unique talent and an ability to communicate with a variety of audiences. Her Berlin Cabaret style songs are especially memorable and her Ice Maiden poems are as intriguing as they are appealing. What is more Charlotte is, as they say, a trooper, totally dedicated to the art." - Michael Raven - Composer, Musician, AuthorThis is a CD demonstrating the breadth of material written and peformed by this unusual poet/singer. The range from Irish story telling in the Lugh; though Marlene Dietrich style Berlin cabaret in Rudolph's Folly and Jews in Berlin is remarkable. All the pieces are unaccompanied which seems to work because of the range of Charlotte's characterisations. Both songs and poems are included, Mogsy's Stories being a tribute to Richard Walker - whose death I mentioned earlier this year. Poppin at Uncle's is a Lancashire style narration/song about the pawn shop, whilst Our Bloody Language is a protest song. Walkin Backwards is a story about a seagull, presented in the style of Nora Batty. There is even a haunting Innuit Call Song. Overall his is an entertaining mixture of material - on this showing I'd definitely recommend seeing Charlotte live." - Dave Leverton - Editor - Avon Folk Diary - October 1999."..some of you Midlanders may well have seen her perform. You'll have had a pretty nice evening if this CD is any sample because she has a very wide-ranging repertoire..I'm not the world's greatest poetry fan but her first (of three) offering here is almost a song, such is her delivery. I suppose you'd call her a performance artist because she makes no bones about changing her delivery to suit the piece. Thus we move from Ireland to Lancashire to Germany. her voice is (I hope I'm forgiven), almost overpowering at times, so raw an edge and deep tones does it often develop.. The material is eclectic (I don't like the word but needs must). And sometimes the switch of style and theme is almost overwhelming - in the pleasantest way of course.This is a clever lady who has no qualms about showing her feelings in both writing and performance; even on a studio session she manages an enviable degree of verve, seldom attained by many performers in a live set.She gives you no mercy as she makes point after point, sometimes with subtlty, sometimes almost threateningly. She deserves a lot from this CD but I suppose someone will ask 'where's the lurve songs?' and others 'where's the guitars?' and pass her by. They'll be wrong to do so for such are not needed here." - Doug Porter - Folk On Magazine - www.dougporter.freeserve.co.uk"Cheshire based Charlotte Peters Rock is, according to the notes accompanying this intriguing CD, a performance poet and singer-songwriter who admits that folk song is a fairly new departure for her, although you'd never guess it from the confident performance she displays here..this is a very enjoyable and very varied album of unaccompanied songs and tales." - Jim Marshall - Editor - The Folk Diary - 180 - 5.11.99"Charlotte Peters Rock is a poet and songstress who was a regular performer on the town's (Bolton) accoustic circuit (brave lady) and has now gone on to bigger things, performing her work throughout the north west and beyond. There's some interesting material on here. If you see her live then you'l definitely want a copy of this album". - Alec Martin - in Bolton Evening News - also of Buskers Ball - http://www.busker.freeuk.com"..the tunes are simple and easy to remember and she covers much ground. Well worth a listen." - Ian Spafford - Stirrings - 102 - Jan-Mar 2000"..interesting, some quite zany stuff in there." - Rod Harrington - Folk & Roots - BBC Somerset Sound"..quite a decent voice if All Of My Boys Will Be Men is anything to go by." - fROOTSWHAT ABOUT THIS REVIEW, which arrived with an immediate postal request - and money..lovely stuff..for a copy of FLYING FREE..discerning fans I have.."This daft as a brush album is..I don't know..either so bad that it's not true, or so clever that its beyond me. The wierd album sleeve gives fair warning that this is not going to be your usual finger-in-the-ear stuff, nor is it.The estimable Ms Rock (really?) has a neat line in ideas, (Our Bloody Language, Rangini the Tigon, Walkin backwards - not the sublimely cracked Spike Milligan song), ..She also does a superb pre-War Marlene Dietrich cabaret number, complete with decadent, tremulous vibrato on a wickedly camp number; Jews in Berlin (They can't keep a good Jew down..) and rapidly switches to stage Irish for a very funny take-off of the Irish-Come-all-ye. There is also an excellent Isle of Man 'sea shanty' with the refreshing chorus No salty old sea dog was he! If you have a few quid to spare, this may lighten your load at Christmas, but be warned.. - JBP - Folk On Tap - 82 - Winter 2000

Additional Info Also large range of poem-stories + 2 cassettes - 'Along the Silk Route' and Celts&Romans&Vikings

Location Knutsford, Cheshire - United Kingdom

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