Much-loved American folk singer and singer-songwriter Tom Paxton will be performing an evening of new songs and greatest hits at Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on January 31^st.
A Grammy nominee and Lifetime Achievement award-winner (Recording Academy, BBC and ASCAP), Paxton has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years.
Tom Paxton’s songs are known and loved around the world: The Last Thing On My Mind, Ramblin’ Boy, and Bottle Of Wine, just a few of his truly timeless works. His generosity to both audiences and fellow musicians is renowned, and his passion for justice and the ties that bind people together is unwavering: for all this and more, Tom Paxton ranks as one of the most revered musicians of his generation.
Paxton’s songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt and Scruggs, The Fireballs, and many others.

He has performed thousands of concerts around the world in such places as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and all over the United States; and his songs have been translated into various languages.