Contents:
Home page : Greetings and recent
happenings, plus news update
Brief History-
Highlights of career to date - 'live performances'
Highlights of career - TV and radio and history of various songs
Recordings past and present and further details of purchase, prices, etc
Sound page - click to hear The Brown Family and Jancis Harvey
Website of Newmarket Cats - details of work and fundraising
Updated : Wed 3June 2009
Return visit to The Hope - Brooklands Ave. Cambridge for an afternoon concert in the beautiful grounds - on Sat. 4th July at 2 pm. Always a great afternoon. Also - a concert in CHEVINGTON, near Bury St. Edmunds - a bit far off but on Friday 9th October - email me for details.
Youtube I have just uploaded my favourite song 'Darcy Farrow' on to youtube. There are now around a dozen Jancis Harvey songs on the channel, including, John Denver's - This Old Guitar, plus, of course, Hallelujah, Miss Otis Regrets, Where do you go to my lovely, etc. etc.
I shall be giving a radio interview next Wed. 3rd June - on HFM which is based in Market Harborough- with Darren Harte - the producer - who rescued an early vinyl of mine from a recycling site, and made contact.
Also - on BBC 3 Counties - on Wed. evening 17th June around 8.30 pm, with Sue Marchant. Both these programmes can be heard on-line.
I have returned from the little hideaway in Barbados - thanks to everyone who made it such a great week, Isabel and Stuart, Jenny and Ken, etc. etc. and to Sally and Keith who I met on the return journey and thank you for holding my hand during take-off and making the sad return most enjoyable, and have several new songs floating around in the head.
Great News ! Something in the Air - my new album is now released - not yet in the shops, but email me for details of how to
Details of the songs on the album which also includes Hallelujah - can be found on the recordings page.
Second great bit of news !! The concert in Paris on Friday 23rd January at the Cinevigo Theatre in Gennevilliers - was fantastic - thank you to Jacques Deniel and everyone at the Cinevigo for making the evening such a success. This was the first ever 'live' concert at the Cinevigo, as this is a small and beautiful double-screening, cinema. The evening featured a film at 6 pm, a meal at 7.30 pm and my concert at 9 pm, until 11 pm. We are already making plans for the next trip and I have been invited to choose the film for the evening, and have several ideas.
Good news - all five of my early vinyls and all other CDs and my own book of all the original and new lyrics are now available via Jancis Harvey website - please email me for details. Pay-pal is now available from this website. All my recordings can be obtained from me - again - please email me - address as above for details.
KINGS THEATRE NEWMARKET - We had some great concerts last year - and hoping that we may have some more this year - they were great fun - very informal and good to have so many friends on stage - in the mean time here are a few moments from the last one -
Jancis above, joined by Alan Coogan, Cyril Loose and Jill Mansell
Jancis Harvey is available for bookings - concerts, folk clubs, festivals, Schools' concerts and workshops, WIs (that Womens' Institutes as well as West Indies !) in fact just email for details, prices negotiable according to distance, size of venue, etc. etc. Email address at the top of this page.
These recordings are also available on download, plus some fairly rare recordings from http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk
The book, 'Words you left behind' is launched and available at the special price of £5 - email for further information if you are interested on and I will arrange for these to be sent to you. jancis@harvey24.go-plus.net
or check out the recordings page. Click here
I was also delighted to read the following comments from a journalist in the States - his name is Ken Scott:
"Sometimes likened to
Fairport Conventions Sandy Denny, this exceptional
female folk singer has an accomplished style that's immediately
accessible,
not to mention miles above most Christian offerings.
It seems only natural that a talent like that of Jancis Harvey
should not be
confirmed soley to the Christian market.From simple relaxed folk
to soft
hypnotic gems with ethereal guitar work and vocals...."
These are my re-released vinyls on CD - for further details click on them below:
Please check the concert page for any new additions and don't forget, even if these are private functions, I am usually permitted to have friends in the audience, so let me know if you are interested in any of them. Sorry for the delay in updating.......Jancis
Have a listen to me and The Browns, by clicking here
Thanks for the people who book me for concerts and re-book me, and for those who have bought my CDs and written to the radio/tv stations. Most of all thanks, to Christian Copyright Licensing for all they do for me and my work.
The songs of Jancis Harvey can be heard these days in schools, churches, concert halls, village halls, masonic halls and just about everywhere there is an audience who appreciates the gentle style of folk-music of this very popular singer/songwriter.
Jancis Harvey is a folk-singer and she has been writing and singing her songs since the very early days of BBC Radio 2 and has made many appearances on the old BBC Light Programme’s FIVE TO TEN slot. Jancis is a regular member of the BBC Schools’ Broadcasting team and her songs, FROM THE DARKNESS CAME LIGHT and LORD OF THE HARVEST have become part of the establishment and appear in several publications, including COME AND PRAISE I and II the BBC Schools’ hymnbooks and BBC BEGINNINGS. She has presented two of her own series of FIVE TO ELEVEN for BBC 1 TV with producer Ralph Rolls and over the years she had her own late night programmes on Anglia TV with Ivan Bailey, YTV with Mary Watts and Tyne Tees Television with Max Deas. see tv page
Over the years she has been commissioned to write songs for various ventures and these include, ROAD TO EMMAUS, which was written for the opening of the first EMMAUS Community in the UK in 1992. Also, THE OPEN DOOR, composed for the Newmarket Open Door project and used extensively at the various concert where Jancis sings in aid of this charity. A SHOEBOX FULL OF WISHES, was composed for the women of Croatia in 1997 as the result of a shoebox appeal in Cambridgeshire and in fact many of her songs reflect her life and the countryside around her, in her native East Anglia. Also, see career page.
As a Christian songwriter, she has given concerts in some of the largest cathedrals in the country and some of the smallest village churches - from Winchester to Whittlesford, and from Ripon to Risby - sometimes working with the local schoolchildren as a special project, and also on her own.
Her style is simple, accompanying herself on guitar and she can supply a p.a. system should this be required. Visit the concert page for details of forthcoming public events.