Music on the Levels announces a change in its free concert on Sunday 24 March in St Mary’s Church, Main Road, Westonzoyland, TA7 0EP. 

Adam Piggott of Wildwood Jack is indisposed and unable to perform. However, Music on the Levels is pleased and privileged to have secured the ‘impossibly talented’ Rodney Branigan to appear at this concert.

The concert starts at 3 pm and refreshments are available at modest charge from 2.15 pm.

The Texas-born troubadour, Rodney Branigan, who learned to play in Austin, perform in Los Angeles, craft songs in Nashville, and put it all together in London has played all types of music in all types of venues in his storied career. His adventurous, boundary-breaking guitar playing (sometimes two at the same time) earning him the title “The Two Guitar Man” has led to performance invites across America, India, Africa, and Europe

In 2018 Rodney catches the attention of Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis who offers Rodney a headline spot at the Glastonbury Extravaganza (the very next day!) at Glastonbury Abbey. It is a double bill alongside Tom Odell. The response is immediate and Rodney lands a spot on the Glastonbury Festival Acoustic Stage. Rodney performs to a seam-splitting and fully crowded tent and the show goes down like a storm.

Rodney Branigan’s style is termed ‘full contact folk music’, Americana Folk Roots with virtuoso presentation, with a touch of clean comedy thrown in for good measure.

He has toured and collaborated with around 40 of the foremost performers in the field, including Billy Bragg, Stereo Phonics, and Tom Robinson, to name but a few.

In addition, he has appeared at well over 80 festivals in more than 15 countries around the world, including many in the UK and in his native USA.

Enthusiastic endorsements have followed Rodney’s musical progress, among them:

Rodney Branigan is one of the most amazing artists you will ever see. Not simply because he is unique, but rather because he is impossibly talented. Music Connection Magazine

Leave to cross France from end to end, because this is what we call a real discovery. A contemporary musician as innovative as the Boulez was in his time. Paris Moves

Every year there will be one or two artists that take the audience completely by surprise. This year Rodney Branigan was undoubtedly that artist, his name being mentioned in our feedback over and over again as peoples stand out act. John Marshall-Potter, FolkEast

‘Rodney is always very keen to perform in local, community venues and is especially looking forward to his first visit to Westonzoyland’, comments Lisa Nasta, Rodney’s representative. 

A member of Music on the Levels said, ‘We are thrilled that an artist of Rodney Branigan’s stature has agreed to play at our next concert.’