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Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm

Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux

Presented by Saffron Hall

Tickets from £30

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Madeleine Peyroux's captivating ninth album, 2024’s Let’s Walk, is the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s most assured, courageous work to date. These unabashedly personal songs are powered by the distinctive, honeyed croon that delivered her from Paris streets to concert halls. Moreover, these songs are all co-written by the versatile Peyroux. They deftly interweave jazz, folk, and chamber pop, with themes ranging from confessional to political, from whimsy to yearning. In every note, Peyroux digs deep, rendering this exquisite work with the disarming grace and gravitas of an artist in peak form.

For the ardently civic-minded Peyroux, Let’s Walk continues the scintillating conversation with her audience – and with the world at large. “This music is part of a dialogue,” she says. “That’s what art is. It’s engagement, community. I believe more than anything in getting together with people and listening to music and conversing. Music is the only way I’ve ever built community.”

Let’s Walk was a long time coming, but well worth the wait. Following Peyroux’s 2018 album, Anthem, the enforced isolation of the global pandemic made any real-time community gathering impossible. From a creative standpoint, however, Covid offered Peyroux a silver lining. Thus, she seized the opportunity to hunker down with longtime collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Jon Herington. The pair reflected on the seismic era at hand and wrote and re-wrote in what Peyroux calls “a shadow of reckoning.”

Soon, the spare, slow-burning Let’s Walk material will be set free in venues around the world. They effortlessly dovetail with Peyroux’s beloved versions of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits classics. As she learned in her busking years, a great song can wield powerful magic. With Let’s Walk, Peyroux takes full ownership of that magic.

Performance information

Running time

To be confirmed

Booking information

Seating style

This event has tiered stalls and balcony seating

Discounts

Under 25s can purchase half price tickets for this show.

Transport

Shuttle bus

Pre-show shuttle bus will be operating from Audley End Station to Saffron Hall. This service is free to use, with no need to book in advance

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Information for your visit

Saturday 22 February 2025, 7.30pm

Schedule

All timings are approximate and will be updated closer to the show date. Please check the website on the day of the performance for up-to-date information.

Latecomers can usually be admitted at a suitable gap within the performance.

Pre-show shuttle bus

6.30pm - 7.30pm
Operating from Audley End Station to Saffron Hall. This service is free to use, with no need to book in advance.

When to arrive

6.30pm - 7.15pm
We have over 400 free parking spots for anyone driving.

Foyer opens

6.30pm
Enjoy a drink at the bar before the auditorium opens.

Auditorium opens

7pm
Get your tickets ready for checking, find your seats, sit back and relax.

Show starts

7.30pm

Show ends

To be confirmed

Post-show shuttle bus

Operating from Saffron Hall to Audley End Station

Location

Saffron Hall

Audley End Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 4UH

Transport

Shuttle bus

Operating from Audley End Station to Saffron Hall. This service is free to use, with no need to book in advance.
More info

Additional information

Cloakroom

We are unable to allow any bags into the performance space which are larger than a hand bag or small backpack. Unfortunately our cloakroom will not be in operation.

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