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Since their formation in 2004 Bellowhead have occupied a unique place in Britain’s musical landscape: a blistering 11-piece band fusing folk, funk, rock, world, jazz, music hall and classical music, they have succeeded in placing themselves at the cutting edge of the contemporary music scene while harnessing all the power and mystery of ancient English and European musical traditions.
When three such influential and creative musicians work together it creates a great excitement with followers of Irish music and this has been very evident with the number of people that have flocked to see their performances already this year.
Kathryn Tickell is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape and people of Northumbria. This show is based on interviews and recordings Kathryn has done over the years with family members and the shepherd musicians from whom she learnt, including mouth organ player Will Atkinson and fiddler Willie Taylor. Three generations of musicians are on stage, including Kathryn’s father, a formidable Geordie singer in his seventies. Northumbrian Voices is a powerful reflection of strong communities, their music and collective stories.
If you loved the music of The Beautiful South first time around, then you’re in luck – The South offer a bona fide chance to hear some of the greatest ever Pop songs performed as they were intended to be, by those who played them in the first place.
Splicing dance tunes of old England with the sunny sexy grooves of reggae and lovers’ rock, Edward II transcended superficial notions of “crossover” to forge a truly original synthesis from their far-flung musical roots. Featuring a seven-piece line-up that saw melodeon and sax, fiddle and trombone nestling snugly cheek-by-jowl, their repertoire strolled expansively from reworked folk standards like “Wild Mountain Thyme” or “La Russe” to Caribbean classics like Gregory Isaacs “Night Nurse”. They were long renowned as one of the freshest, funkiest acts on the circuit, th
There is no doubt that after 35 years as a professional musician Martin is, right now, better than ever. Widely acknowledged as one of the finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the world, his interpretations of traditional songs are masterpieces of storytelling. His solo shows are intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving. There is no-one who has more successfully combined the diverse elements of British, Afro-American and old-timey music than Simpson. His 15 years living in the US were well spent. In addition his own songwriting has produced some real gems, from the truc
Based on the Isle of Skye, the band have become one of Scotlands best known names in contemporary folk music. They have just been announced as a nominee for "Best Live Act" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012, having already twice won "Live Act of the Year" at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards. They've taken their own individual brand of Scottish tunes to audiences around the world, from European Festivals, to Asia, Africa, America, Canada and Australia.
If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She—a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player—is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before.
The Breton dance music group Esquisse consists of four young musicians from Loire-Atlantique, the area around Nantes. For the last eleven years, they have been performing their music all around France and Europe in different Fest-Noz, concerts and festivals including Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Isle of Man, Slovakia, etc.
Esquisse, its audacious and well defined music, without any soft focus : music that forges ahead.
with Joe Jones and Belinda OHooley
Nic Jones is quite simply a legend. It is well known that his career was cut short by a life-changing car accident - but in 2012, exactly 30 years later, he is making a comeback.
Ably accompanied by his son Joe on guitar (whose style is uncannily like his father's) and pianist Belinda O’Hooley, he has developed a set of old and new material. One of the most influential singers and interpreters of traditional song, he is himself influenced by Bob Marley and Radiohead these days, so expect a surprise or two!
Old Man Luedecke is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. “An original, he is a musical singularity to be savoured and shared”, says the Vancouver Folk Festival. His memorable melodies, poetic sense and easy charisma appeal to anyone searching for new growth from old roots.
Roddy Woomble was born in Ayrshire in 1976. During his childhood he and his family moved about frequently, living in France, England and America before settling in the Scottish coastal town of Carnoustie, where Roddy spent his teenage years before moving, at eighteen in 1995 to Edinburgh to study Photography. It was at University in Edinburgh that Roddy met Colin Newton and Rod Jones and formed the group Idlewild. The band have gone on to record and release six acclaimed albums and two compilations. Two of these albums debuted in the UK top ten. They have relea