BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:651@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T230000 DTSTAMP:20260504T111302Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/willy-mason/ SUMMARY:Willy Mason DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nWilly Mason UK Spring Tour 2026\n\nSOLD OUT join wait ing list:  www.seetickets.com/event/willy-mason/lewes-con-club/3605120\n\ nBar from 5:00pm. 7:30pm - 11:00pm.\n\nWilly Mason (born November 21\, 198 4) is an American blues\, folk and country singer\, songwriter\, and music ian\, hailing from Martha’s Vineyard\, Massachusetts\, U.S.\n\n\n\n\nBor n in Tarrytown\, New York\, Willy Mason moved to Martha’s Vineyard\, Mas sachusetts with his family at the age of five. During his high school educ ation Mason was a member of a number of bands including Keep Thinking\, Cu ltivation and Slow Leslie\, and participated in his school’s Minnesinger s group and musical theatre productions. With the folk influences of his p arent’s record collection and his teenage years’ proclivity towards Ra ge Against the Machine and Nirvana\, Mason crafts a folky\, socially-aware /revolution-in-the-air sound.\n\nBy sheer coincidence\, during an appearan ce on a family friend’s local radio show\, a Bright Eyes associate Sean Foley heard the singer-songwriter\, and left his number with the station f or Mason to contact. The song Mason played was entitled “Oxygen” and l ed to Mason and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst collaborating and touring toge ther. As chance would have it when Mason played “Oxygen” again to an a udience of three at South By Southwest festival\, one of those members was BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. The DJ then played it to a British audience and exposed the singer’s often raw delivery and socially-conscious message to a huge audience.\n\nAhead of his full-length debut Mason released two E Ps\, one untitled and one named “Hard Hand to Hold”. The singer-songwr iter’s debut album\, “Where the Humans Eat”\, recorded at just 19 ye ars of age\, was issued in 2005\, and peaked at No. 38 on the UK Albums ch art. Due to the success Mason played a host of UK and U.S. festivals inclu ding Glastonbury Festival\, before taking time off to return home and form a backing band. After releasing the subsequent EPs “Hard to Lie Down” in 2005 and “Scraps” in 2006\, Willy Mason toured in support of the r espected acts Beth Orton\, Death Cab for Cutie\, Radiohead and Sondre Lerc he.\n\nMason’s sophomore album arrived in 2007 entitled “If the Ocean Gets Rough” to positive reviews\, and peaked at No. 33 on the UK Albums chart. After contributing lyrics to The Chemical Brothers’ “We Are the Night” album\, and a song to “Radio Waves\, Vol. 1” – a Martha’ s Vineyard compilation album – Mason performed at the 2007 Austin City L imits festival. The stresses of being a touring musician began to take the ir toll and Mason appeared rarely until 2011 where he embarked on a small venue tour of the UK and recorded a session at Manchester’s The Sharp Pr oject.\n\nThe critically acclaimed singer-songwriter’s third studio albu m “Carry On” was issued in 2012 on Fiction Records. It was produced by Dan Carey and was supported by a sold-out tour of the UK\, as well as a t our of Australia alongside Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe and the Magn etic Zeroes.\n\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFOm6FqOSA[/emb edyt]\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2026/02/WMason2026FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR