Folk singer Kris Drever will be asking ‘If Wishes Were Horses’ when his tour rolls into Topsham on Sunday, April 3.

The singer will be entertaining members and guests of the Topsham Folk Club, at The Globe Inn, from 7.30pm.

Kris Drever launches into 2016 with a brand new studio album If Wishes Were Horses and a supporting tour.

With it, he celebrates his first decade as an acclaimed solo artist and songwriter and the new album is his first for six years.

If Wishes Were Horses is a collection of semi-biographical songs covering the universal, and not so universal, themes of education, politics, sex, love, ennui, self-employment, social migration and Shetland.

Drever’s recent outpouring of songs stems from a move back to the Northern Isles Shetland this time, rather than his native Orkney.

This has led to his discovery of new lyrical voices to describe his life, times and wild new surroundings.

Helping Kris to realise this album are the renowned guitar genius Ian Carr, bassist Euan Burton and Admiral Fallow frontman Louis Abbott on drums and vocals.

Drever’s voice and guitar now form a part of the backbone of today’s contemporary roots and folk scene.

Hugely admired as a solo artist, collaborator, and member of folk superstars Lau, he is a phenomenal and prolific artist.

Drever has already played alongside Jack Bruce, Bela Fleck, Tinariwen, Joan As Police Woman, Jerry Douglas, Danny Thompson, Tim O’Brien, Sarah Jarosz, Shawn Colvin, Phil Cunningham, Rosanne Cash, Roddy Woomble, Eddi Reader, Adem, Kate Rusby, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart and many more.

For the concert tour, alongside the new material from If Wishes Were Horses, Kris will revisit old songs from across his back catalogue, playing many outside of the recording studio for the first time.

Fans can get involved by posting, on his Facebook page, old songs they would like to hear; Kris will then pick from those selections.