Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney plays six shows as special guest of Ben Folds on his tour of England with the New York City–based yMusic ensemble, starting at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester this Friday night. The tour includes stops at the Sage Gateshead, Brighton Dome, and Cambridge Corn Exchange, as well as two nights at the London Palladium. Next month, Chaney plays the Underneath the Stars Festival at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley.

See below for all of her currently scheduled shows; for the latest, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Olivia Chaney made her album debut with the release of The Longest River on Nonesuch Records last year. "Her voice holds the purity, tension, dignity and sorrow of a heritage full of songs about lost love and cruel fate," says the New York Times. "Chaney is thoroughly grounded in the past, from medieval music to [Joni] Mitchell. But in her quiet way, she's radical." The Observer calls the album "an enchanting, stately creation." PopMatters exclaims: "It's pretty much perfect."

“Live,” the New Yorker writes, “Chaney has a casual yet commanding presence … it’s as if a mystical spirit has entered the room. With an earthiness to her expressive soprano, Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century.”

Chaney performed four songs from the album on WXPN's Folkadelphia last night; you can hear the set here:

OLIVIA CHANEY ON TOUR