Why music touches the soul as Lowther Pavilion's Battle of the Bands launches to showcase local talent

Lowther Pavilion, in partnership with The Gazette has launched Battle of the Bands as a platform for up and coming local talent to help break through into the music industry. It's an incredible opportunity and is open to bands and solo artists.

Lowther's CEO and artisitic director Tim Lince talks powerfully about the importance of the music scene...

Lowther Pavilion has a rich history of promoting music from Fleetwood Mac who performed here in the 1970’s to Robert Plant and Ceelo Green in 2021,  right the way through to the today when you can see Ward Thomas, The Coral and Jonny Hates Jazz taking to the stage in the next couple of months.  

Having an eclectic mix of music has spawned monthly Jazz and Folk Clubs as well as rediscovering local bands such as The Good Earth who had some success in the 80’s and reformed during the pandemic to release a new album. 

Tim Lince comments that "music is so much part of everyone’s lives.  We all know where we were when we heard certain tracks. It is what we are born to and benchmarks important junctures on our journey through life. 

"Emotionally, music supports us, give us celebration, a place and time to reflect and lifts us when we are down.  Celebrating music with others is almost primeval and being at a live concert satisfies the basics of human need by sharing the experience with others.   

"Fast track to the removal of live venues during the pandemic and we can see the damage this caused to society through decline in mental wellbeing and why it has become so important to support keeping live venues open for everyone.  

"People have varying tastes and it is really important to reflect this in the programming of Lowther. 

"So from small gigs in our Bar studio to 900 people in the hot atmosphere of the main theatre there is something for everyone here.   But we are not stopping there, for at the moment work is underway to build a brand new Education and Studio space that will seat 150 people or house standing gigs of up to 300, capturing that middle ground for new and emerging artists to play a venue with the best equipment or for more established artists to play a more intimate space and try out new music.  

"Artists are the life blood of what we do at Lowther and it is about giving them space to perform, memories to be made and encourage the artists of the future to pick up instruments and give it a go.

"I have been lucky enough to work with many of my heroes and see many more perform live and yet still every time I hear Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel I am transported back to the breakfast table at my grandmothers in London and the old Richards Radio on the table and the smell of bacon cooking.  Happy Days!   

"So at Lowther we are here to celebrate music, lift lives and create memories and long may we do so."

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