Britain’s First Lady of Folk will be delighting the audience with an evening of warmth, humour, integrity and superb singing.

It was The Times which gave Julie Felix that title in 1965 and she has lived up to it ever since.

Few female solo artists can have achieved so much and still be performing to such acclaim.

Julie arrived in England in 1964 from California and became the first solo folk artist to be signed to a British record company label.

The rest of that decade saw her achieve success after success as a live performer, a recording artist and on the BBC.

Her own series of 17 TV programmes was sold worldwide in 1968 as her popularity increased.

She topped this by being one of the main artists at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival alongside Bob Dylan.

The next year brought  her first chart hit with Paul Simon’s If I Could (El Condor Paso). That was followed in 1973 with her second hit, Heaven is Here, by Hot Chocolate.

Her other popular songs include Blowin’ in the Wind and Going to the Zoo.

Julie, who lives in Hertfordshire, continues to be in international demand as the decades go by.

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