The Magic Lantern

Blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary songwriting, The Magic Lantern is "something very, very special" (Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music).
The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie, as The Magic Lantern, has released five full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.
His most recent album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughter's birth and his father's death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says: "I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward". These songs are his attempt to make sense of this incredible time – ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’.
Performing as a duo in the atmospheric setting of The Long Room at The Drewe Arms in Drewsteignton, The Magic Lantern's live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism and piercing lyrics, crafting songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results.