On Saturday 4th November, friends, fans and collaborators celebrate Bert Jansch's extraordinary musical legacy at the Royal Festival Hall marking what would have been his 80th birthday. 

Bert Jansch is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists of all time. A leading light of the 1960s British folk revival and a founding member of folk jazz supergroup Pentangle, his career spanned five decades, inspiring generations of musicians with his groundbreaking acoustic guitar technique and emotive songs. Jansch had a long history of performing at the Royal Festival Hall: Pentangle’s first major performance took place here in 1967 and they recorded part of their Sweet Childalbum here in 1968.The original Pentangle line-up reformed to play the same hall exactly 40 years later and it was a Pentangle show at the Royal Festival Hall in August 2011 that proved to be his last performance.

Kathryn Williams is amongst the stellar line up - for more information and to purchase tickets, click here