Elizabeth Thomson

ELIZABETH (LIZ) THOMSON, a widely published journalist and frequent broadcaster, studied music at the University of Liverpool. For many years she pursued a dual career, reporting on the international publishing trade by day and the arts by night. She has lectured on both publishing and music, and has conducted platform interviews at literary festivals around the world. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, she is the editor (with David Gutman) of critical anthologies on John Lennon, Bob Dylan and David Bowie, and the author of a 40-year celebration of Chickenshed, the ground-breaking London-based theater company. She is the revising editor of New York Times critic Robert Shelton’s biography of Bob Dylan. Thomson has been a Visiting Fellow of the Open University Sixties Research Group and is the co-founder of a folk music charity, Square Roots Productions. She is also the founder and executive producer of The Village Trip, an annual arts and music festival celebrating the history and heritage of Greenwich Village. Thomson’s attendance at Joan Baez concerts spans fifty years, and includes reporting on the live recordings for Ring Them Bells in New York.