Hannah Aldridge

Tonight’s headline act, the Muscle Shoals born but now Nashville-based Hannah Aldridge, was making no-less than her fourth visit to Lincolnshire’s premier Americana venue, The Town Hall at Kirton in Lindsey, having most recently headlined the Garden Festival in 2022.

Not so much a headliner plus support act, this combination of Alabama and Australia was more of a rock'n'roll revue show with the musicians variously appearing, leaving and then reappearing on stage throughout the night.

While we're just about getting used to live gigs again, the road to various stages is still littered with Covid related obstacles.

When Hannah Aldridge played at the Lexington in London last year it was to perform a show that was in the style of the Grand Ole Opry, with a selection of her favourite musical friends encouraged to perform along with her.

Hannah Aldridge has certainly put in the spade work where touring Europe in the recent past is concerned.

Stockholm, Sweden

I don’t I love her because she's rejected the industry tropes that prescribe what an artist in 2017 should sing and say, or because she possesses a presence that threatens to bust the stage beneath her.