Biography

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“We call this recording the The Kitchen Sessions,” explains veteran songwriter John Ludgate. “All 12 tracks were recorded in our kitchen, (well actually, one was on the back patio – all the rest were in the kitchen), using just a basic multi-track recorder – so it’s not a studio produced CD with all the bells and whistles …just us in our kitchen playing our songs. Much of it is a ‘family affair’ as we are joined on many of the songs by our sons – Luke, Anthony and Shane Ludgate - who have played with us on three of our previous studio albums.

“We have also recorded a video for each of the songs included in the project. They’re not highly produced videos – mostly just camera phone videos of us playing the song around the kitchen table/back patio plus a few others with snippets from various films that relate to the subject matter of the songs. The individual Kitchen Sessions song videos can be found within the Video section of our website www.johnandsheilaludgate.com.”

John Ludgate has been playing in clubs and pubs, coffee houses, and music festivals for the past 30 years. He has won numerous awards and Canadian FACTOR grants for his songwriting and has received radio airplay across Canada and the USA. Over the last fifteen years he has been joined by his wife Sheila on bass and harmony vocals. Together they have been performing as a duo across southern Ontario and into Quebec and the USA - playing regularly at many locations for an extended period of time. Audiences enjoy the strong rhythms, harmony vocals and original song writing that the duo creates.

Prior to The Kitchen Sessions, John & Sheila Ludgate have released five studio albums of original material and two live albums. Jim Marino of CFMU chose their 2018 release What The Camera Couldn't See as one of his 2018 Top 10 CD picks for Penguin Eggs Magazine (Winter 2018 Edition). Running Through The Innocent Years, Northern Soul and What The Camera Couldn't See might be described as family fusion projects bringing together the roots sounds of John & Sheila Ludgate with the more electric sounds of their sons – Luke, Anthony and Shane Ludgate, who belong to the popular alternative band Beautiful Nothing. This pairing creates a unique sound and sensibility.