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Mr. Novembre

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Look up bard or troubadour in the OED and you get either a Celtic poet and keeper of Irish, Welsh, and Scottish culture, or a medieval lyric poet-musician from Southern France. Now you have the anomaly that is Mr. Novembre, a cultural mongrel born in France, raised in Dubai in French surroundings, with Celtic roots, and a third-culture kid identity crisis.

Before his current 11-year stint in friendly and rainy Manchester, the mainstay for Henry Colquhoun was a thirst for travel and a penchant for lyrical songwriters in the vein of Glen Hansard and Laura Marling. Hours on the school bus in Dubai reading tomes of Tolkien's tales and fantasies about quests, adventures, and friendship led to a yearning for new people, new cultures, new places, fuelled by his parents' many travels across the globe.

Studies in Paris, Bristol, and Granada followed, whitling away the hours writing songs about love, letters, friendships, cities, ecology, and endless people. A momentous trip driving from Australia to India brought out the performer in him, before Manchester was elected as the place to settle down for a while and let these creative tendencies be loosed upon the wider world.

From the balanced folk and rock of 2022's Another Chapter, to the experimental spoken word of 2023's Menestrel Blues, Mr. Novembre returns to his deep folky roots in 2026 with a new album of grief, relinquishment, and peace.

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