Buxton International Festival have announced British singer-songwriter Rumer as part of the festival Jazz series this summer.
Brit Award nominee Rumer will present her popular debut album Seasons Of My Soul
The Brit Award nominee will perform in Buxton Opera House and present her triple Platinum debut album, Seasons of My Soul, on Sunday 20th July at 8pm.
‘The best new voice of the year… An instant Mojo classic. Profound, intense and penetrating… Audacious solo debut… the new voice of pop’
★★★★★ Album Of The Month, MOJO
Neil Hughes, director of jazz at BIF said: “We are so excited that Rumer is joining the jazz roster at this year’s festival. Her smooth voice, loved by Burt Bacharach, makes her one of the stars in the UK.”
Since Rumer’s first album Seasons Of My Soul landed in the Top 3 of the UK Albums Charts in 2010, it’s achieved Platinum sales status and garnered her a MOJO Award for Best Breakthrough Act as well as two BRIT Award nominations. The British singer-songwriter has gone on to forge an acclaimed career both as a highly regarded songwriter, penning global hits such as ‘Slow’ and ‘Aretha,’ and also a peerless interpreter of the work of others, as evidenced on her follow-up album Boys Don’t Cry – an album of classic covers from the 1970s – plus Rumer Sings Bacharach at Christmas and This Girl’s in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook.
Rumer spent the past several years living in the American South, in northwest Arkansas, then central Georgia, where she embraced its community and culture and motherhood. Although she enjoyed her time out of the spotlight, her deep-seated desire for music discovery, which has been a constant throughout her career, eventually led her to Nashville in search of hidden gems to record. Once she heard the catalogue of Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Hugh Prestwood, a songwriter whose name is spoken with reverence by his colleagues and whose work has been recorded by transcendent singers like Alison Krauss, Trisha Yearwood, and Judy Collins, she was hooked.
Her latest album, Nashville Tears collects fifteen of Prestwood’s finest songs, many never recorded until now, revealing truths of the heart, both intimate and universal, realistic and romantic.
Booking and tickets
Tickets are priced at £25 – £40.
To book tickets and for more information, to go, buxtonfestival.co.uk/whats-on/rumer or contact the Box Office on 01298 72190.
Public booking for the full Festival programme opens on 15th April at 10am.
Buxton International Festival runs from 10th – 27th July 2025, and features a packed programme of opera, music, jazz and book talks.
When: 4th – 21st July 2024
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