Decca Classics is delighted to announce a brand-new recording from Grammy-award-winning violinist Nicola Benedetti. Violin Café is packed full of popular virtuosic and seductive romantic works, freshly arranged for a new dynamic group of instruments. Soon to be taken on tour, this album reunites Nicola with audiences she has known and been supported by for over 22 years. This is a thank you to the people of all ages, from all across the UK and around the world, who share a deep love of classical music and the violin, whose children Nicola has taught after concerts and whose curiosity of the arts she shares. This inventive new line-up of instruments delivers a communal, conversational ‘evening cafe appropriate’ sound. A sound with the flexibility to work across genres, cultures and performance environments.

Nicola’s first solo tour in over a decade performing at 14 venues across the UK and Ireland.

Nicola has curated a personal and fun programme, as she embarks on her first solo tour of the UK and Ireland in over 10 years. Combining solo performances with storytelling, Nicola will share a selection of shorter works - romantic, virtuosic and some Celtic and folk-inspired. The approach to these concerts will be intimate and personal, with Nicola joined onstage by close colleagues including Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes and accordionist Samuele Telari.