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Chanky-Chank, ZydeGoNutz, The Whiskey River Boys, Elvis Fontenot & The Sugar Bees, The Bearcats, with Cajun and Zydeco dance tuition from Carol Wilson & Kay Anderson and DJ/ MCing from Lil’ Queenie and Flying Home from Swamprock Club, London. Tel. 01227 274340;
www.bristolcajunfestival.com
The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s runs from 15th – 30th October with Paul Brady, Afrobeat star Tony Allen and US singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter.
www.belfastfestival.com
Liverpool Irish Festival runs from 15th – 31st October. Musical highlights include Andy Irvine, Christy Moore, Kieran Goss, Damien Dempsey, The Irish Sea Sessions (including Bernard O’Neill, Ian Prowse, Becky Taylor, Carlene Anglim, Colette O’Leary, Eimear McGeown, Niamh Parsons, Graham Dunne, Gino Lupari, Damien Dempsey, Alan Burke and Lizzie Nunnery), Pete Quinn & The London Lasses, Terry Coyne, Philip Massure, Dave Munnelly & Sam Proctor, Skirm, Danny Cameron, Pol Dalagh, Cormac Byrne and Anthony Haller.
www.liverpoolirishfestival.com
The 12th Return To Camden
Town Festival runs from 21st – 24th October at London Irish Centre, Camden Square, London NW1. Artists confirmed so far include: Matt Molloy, John Carty & Arty McGlynn, Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh & Manus Lunny, Dervish, The Old De Danann (Alec Finn, Johnny McDonagh, Eleanor Shanley, Mick Conneely, Derek Hickey, Brian McGrath), Templehouse Ceili Band, The London Lasses & Pete Quinn, Tony DeMarco, Peter McAlinden and more.
www.returntocamden.org
Musicport Festival at The Spa,
Bridlington (22nd – 24th Oct) has a tasty line-up including Angelique Kidjo, The Imagined Village, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos, Amine & Hamza, John Cooper Clarke, Márta Sebestyén, Richard Hawley, Anxo Lorenzo Band, Guo Yue, Xova, Erik Mongrain, Jah Wobble’s Japanese Dub, Norma Waterson, The Hut People, Samay, Maalstroom Meets Jo Freya, Steve Phillips,
Paul Brady – Belfast Festival
Asere, New Rope String Band, Martha Tilston, Hassan Erraji’s Moroccan Rollers and Robert Maseko Big Band.
www.musicportfestival.com
The Baring Gould Festival
Okehampton (22nd – 24th Oct) has a line-up including Lauren McCormick, Chris Coe, Brian Peters, Martin & Shane Graebe, Nick Wyke & Becki Driscoll and Tom & Barbara Brown. Tel: 01837 53754;
www.baring-gould.co.uk
The Big Experiment 2010,
Wales’ folk school, takes place from 22nd – 25th October at Conway Centre in Llanfair PG, Anglesey with tutors including Karen Tweed, Stephen Rees, Neil Browning, Arfon Gwilym, Sian James, Bethan & Huw Roberts, Cass Meurig and Sioned Webb. Tel. TRAC: 029 20 318863;
www.trac-cymru.org
Darlington Folk Music
Weekend takes place at Darlington Arts Centre 29th – 31st October. A weekend of traditional music, song & dance incorporating workshops, sessions and ceilidhs with tutors including: Karen Tweed, Stewart Hardy, Carolyn Robson, Joey Oliver, Jo Freya, Luke Daniels, Alistair Anderson, Lauren MacColl, Kerry Fletcher, Kevin Dempsey Band and David Oliver. Tel. 01661 842964; www.darlingtonfolkmusicweekend
.org.uk
TOURS
Supporting the release of their new album, Norma Waterson & Eliza Carthy bring The Gift Band Tour to Royal & Derngate, Guildhall Road, Northampton (10th Oct); Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford (12th); Sheffield City Hall (17th); The OWG Centre, Hollands Farm, Hawley Road, Dartford (20th); Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, Islington (27th); Turner Sims, University of Southampton (28th); Royal International Pavilion, Llangollen (30th); Birmingham Town Hall (2nd Nov); Chapel Arts Centre, Bath (4th); Bridgwater Arts Centre (6th); Hovingham Village Hall (10th); Hebden Bridge Picturehouse (11th).
www.eliza-carthy.com
Chris Wood & Andy Cutting Celebrating a twentieth
anniversary, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting play as a duo at Darwin Suite, Assembly Rooms, Derby (3rd Oct); St David’s Hall, Cardiff (6th); The Sage, Gateshead (8th); Penistone Paramount, Sheffield (9th); Colchester Folk Club (11th); The Point, Eastleigh (12th); The Mayflower, Cambridge (14th); The Met, Bury (16th); Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth (21st); Farnham Maltings (22nd); Red Lion, Birmingham (27th).
Asian Music Circuit has launched a new Festival Of Afghan Culture, hosting the first UK festival of Herati music and culture from Afghanistan. The festival features a tour of Herati musicians and various events related to the culture of the region, including the storytelling performance Afghan Tales. Featuring the talents of Nasim Rahim Khushnawaz (Afghan rubab), Ustad Gada Mohammad (Herati dutar), Naimatullah (Herati vocal), Muhammad Aziz (classical vocal and harmonium), Yusuf Mahmoud (tabla) and female vocalist Mina Amani, the tour takes in The Sage Gateshead (18th Sept); St Ives Arts Club, St Ives, Cornwall (20th); St George’s, Bristol (22nd); Roxy Art House, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh (24th); The Tricycle Theatre, London NW6 (26th); The Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 (27th). Also taking place, a lecture on music from Herat by Prof. John Baily at the Asian Music Centre, Bradford
Angelique Kidjo –Musicport
Road, London W3 (22nd). Tel: 020 8749 9584,
www.amc.org.uk
John McCusker & Heidi
Talbot appear at The Kirkgate, Cockermouth (24th Sept); The Met, Bury (25th); Thekla, Bristol (29th); The Junction, Cambridge (30th); Kings Place, London (1st Oct); Discovery Centre, Winchester (2nd); Pyramid & Parr Hall, Warrington (3rd); Brunton Theatre,
Musselburgh (14th); Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles (15th); The Tolbooth, Stirling (21st); Tron Theatre, Glasgow (24th).
Andy Irvine plays at Cabot Circus Hotel, Bond St South, Bristol (22nd Sept); The Ram Club, Old Cranleighans Rugby Club, Thames Ditton, Surrey (24th); Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London W6 (25th); Walthamstow Folk Club, The Plough Inn, London N17 (26th); Dartford Folk Club (28th); Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club, The Old White Horse (29th); The Musician, Leicester (30th); Barnsley Folk Club (1st Oct); Davy Lamp Folk Club, Washington, Co. Durham (2nd); Rosehall Community Arts, by Lairg, Scotland (4th); The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (5th); The Birnam Institute (6th); Plockton High School Hall (7th): Glen Urquhart Public Hall, Drumnadrochit (8th); Universal Hall, Forres, Findhorn (9th); Fraser Centre, Milngavie, nr Glasgow (10th); Stirling Folk Club (11th); Edinburgh Folk Club (13th); The Old Laundry Theatre, Bo’ness on Windermere (14th); Reeth District Memorial Hall (15th); Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (16th); Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (17th);
Photo: Ian Anderson
Photo: Jak Kilby
Photo: Judith Burrows
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