June Tabor will be closing the 2011 Minghella Film Festival at Freshwater Memorial Hall.

In live performance, expect to be enthralled by this dark-voiced storyteller whose broad repertoire sets the anonymous genius of folk poetry alongside work from both the celebrated and the unsung heroes of modern British writing; expect an interweaving of words and music that will create an atmosphere to haunt the memory.

June recorded the songs for the TV soundtrack for one of the late Anthony Minghella's earliest plays 'Whale Music'.

Few people who were there will ever forget the two stunning concerts that June gave at Quay Arts, Newport in 2000 and 2003 when she gripped the audience with her intennse vocal delivery, almost acting out the songs, in fact.

Coming right up to date, June has a brand new album out later this month called 'Ashore'. Fittingly, all the songs on it are about the sea.

June will be accompanied at Freshwater by the superb Huw Warren on piano who played at her previous two Quay Arts concerts.

Tickets are £15.00 each and can be booked from the Quay Arts Box Office on 01983 822490.