Dave Hammer and Leonie Evans

secret woodland location near Canterbury
26 August 2018

This was a few days before Smugglers Festival. A wild and stormy evening, so fortunately we had an indoor space we could use. I’d met Dave when I spent a week with Leonie in New Orleans in 2016 and this was his first trip to Europe, touring with her. In fact it was the last date of their tour. The weather seemed to put a lot of people off, but fortunately an entourage of Smugglers Festival crew came over from the site just in time to boost the audience to a respectable size. Everyone loves Leonie (who has some fabulous new songs...they just keep coming); and everyone loved Dave, his quirky humour and his songs. Some I recognised from 2016, but there were some great new ones like "The Man Whose Life Don't Make No Sense". Two sets of the two of them together. Wond’rous vocal harmonies and ‘frumpet’ soloing from Leonie throughout.