{"id":15709,"date":"2023-11-17T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=15709"},"modified":"2023-11-17T09:54:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:54:45","slug":"musician-of-the-month-lewis-barfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/musician-of-the-month-lewis-barfoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician of the Month: Lewis Barfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up in Walthamstow, London listening to my Dad play finger-picking folk covers on the guitar and banjo and to my Mum\u2019s very small record collection which we would play on repeat and dance around to in the lounge. I especially remember The Seven Drunken Nights<\/a><\/span> by the Dubliners which me and my sister found an absolute gas to sing along to. I didn\u2019t learn to play instruments as a child, I wasn\u2019t allowed to play my Dad\u2019s and he never taught me per se, but hearing him sing and play and look so happy put the music in my bones.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2002 I went to drama school and went on to sing in plenty of theatre shows during my acting career. One of the highlights was a cute children\u2019s show for which Kerry Andrew wrote the music. She has been a dear friend and collaborator ever since.<\/p>\n

In 2013 I went on a world tour of 1927\u2019s production of The Animals and Children Took To The Streets<\/em><\/a><\/span>. It was an amazing show, a fabulous experience as we toured twenty-one countries in eleven months. But I was bored creatively. I felt like a puppet performing someone else\u2019s work and my soul was calling for more. So I decided to write a song in every country with no expectation of the outcome. At the end of that tour I decided to leave acting and focus on music. I took a three month songwriting sabbatical, picked up a guitar and taught myself how to play and went to release my first EP \u201cCatch Me\u201d in 2015 which contains five songs written on the world tour. This is the title track written in midsummer in St Petersburg.<\/p>\n