Watch House Folk at Crosskeys Hall – Boo Hewerdine & Yvonne Lyon (WORKSHOP & CONCERT)
Event Date:
May 16, 2026
Event Time:
2:30 pm
Event Location:
Crosskeys Hall St Peters Church, Woodleigh Rd, Monkseaton, NE25 8ET
Event Description
** We do not send paper tickets, please just bring your email confirmation. Your name will be on our door list **
Join us for a series of intimate folk concerts in one of our our temporary homes, Crosskeys Hall, Monkseaton while Cullercoats Watch House is undergoing renovation. Please bring your own refreshments. There will also be a short support set.
Songwriting Workshop & Concert
- Workshop 2.30 – 4.30pm
Yvonne and I would like to share the processes we used to create ‘Things Found In Books’. How we used a notice board in a secondhand bookshop as a source of inspiration. In this workshop we will look at our environment and create songs together. We will show you techniques that we found helpful. Bring an instrument if you like. Non instrumentalists are equally welcome!
- Concert 7.30pm – 9.45pm
Boo Hewerdine & Yvonne Lyon – Things Found in Books
Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine’s new album Things Found in Books is an album of songs written in response to a notice board in Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop littered with things that have dropped out of books.
Letters, notes, photographs, old receipts, postcards, fragments of people’s lives which has been lovingly collected and kept on a board on the wall amongst the bookshelves.
Boo and Yvonne have formed an inimitable songwriting partnership weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.
Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed award-winning English singer-songwriter now living and working in Glasgow. Eddi Reader enjoyed international success with the hit single Patience of Angels (written by Boo) in 1995.
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio album release. Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense. She has guested on to live sessions with Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2 and recently completed a master’s degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of West Scotland.
www.thingsfoundinbooks.com
www.boohewerdine.com
www.yvonnelyonmusic.com