Newport Live will be presenting Teddy Thompson, acoustic, at LaFarge Arts Center, 73 Pelham (and Spring) in Newport on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $35 and available through EventBrite and via the Newport Live website.

 

Teddy Thompson was born in a London Sufi commune to folk rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson, both major musical figures in the English folk rock scene from the 1960s onward. He formed a band at the age of 18. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his music career, which included work as a singer and guitar player in his father Richard's band during the 1990s. He appears on at least three Richard Thompson Band recordings from that time: You? Me? Us?, the live album Celtschmerz (1998) and Mock Tudor, as well as singing a duet on the track "Persuasion", which appeared on Richard's best-of compilation Action Packed .He can be seen performing in his father's band on a number of internet videos from as early as 1993, including an appearance on Jools Holland's show.