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Rooting About
WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Sarah Coxson
Because we go to press a month before publication date there are occasionally announcements made after copy date about things which will have passed by the time the next issue is published. We have a LATE BREAKING NEWS page in the fRoots Forum at
www.frootsmag.com for such items. If you have urgent news about something happening in the current month, you can register and enter details there.
FESTIVALS & EVENTS
The globalFEST 2011 artist line-up includes Chamber Music: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Creole Choir Of Cuba, Diblo Dibala, Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole, LA-33, Mustafa Özarslan, Novalima, Orquestra Contemporânea De Olinda, Pedro Martinez Project, RAM, Red Baraat, Rhythm Of Rajastan and Yoro
Ndiaye.The event takes place on 9th January at Webster Hall in New York.
www.rockpaperscissors.biz /go/globalfest11
Celtic Connections – running from 13th – 30th January with 300 events in 14 Glasgow venues – features a wealth of artists. Some of those include: Mavis Staples, Lau, Fiddlers’ Bid, Paul Brady,
Mavis Staples: Celtic Connector
The Waterboys, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Grant Lee Buffalo, Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Ani DiFranco and Jim Moray, Seth Lakeman and The Fisherman’s Friends, The Pulse Of World featuring Zakir Hussain with Patsy Reid, Ross Ainslie, Matheu Watson, John Joe Kelly, Michael McGoldrick, Jenna Cumming, Kumaresh and Rakesh Chaurasia;World Fiddle Night with Tim Kliphuis, Frankie Gavin, Charlie McKerron, Tim Edey, Koshka and Sharat Chandra Srivastava; Malinky, Treacherous Orchestra and Fía Ni Roca, The Unusual Suspects, Tannahill Weavers, Michael Marra, Emily Smith, Corrina Hewat, While & Matthews, a
70th Birthday Tribute to Bob Dylan with Rosanne Cash, Josh Rouse, Tim O’Brien, Kris Drever, Thea Gilmore, James Grant, Rab Noakes and Gemma Hayes; a concert in memory and celebration of the late great singer and songwriter Davy Steele, including Dick Gaughan, Andy M. Stewart, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, Karen Tweed, Phil Cunningham, Ian MacCalman; tribute concerts to both Alistair Hulett and Hamish Henderson; plus Sandy Wright, Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, The Creole Choir Of Cuba, Cheikh Lô, Yasmin Levy, Taraf De Haïdouks, OqueStrada, Mama Rosin, Jah Wobble & The Nippon Dub Ensemble; The Highland Sessions with Blazin’ Fiddles, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, Dàimh and Gaelic singers Cathy-Ann MacPhee, Margaret Stewart, Kathleen MacInnes and Darren MacLean; Transatlantic Sessions with Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Paul Brady, Phil Cunningham, Donald Shaw, Julie Fowlis, John McCusker, James Mackintosh, Michael McGoldrick and a US contingent of Allison Moorer, Ashley Cleveland, Kenny Greenberg, Tim O’Brien and Dirk Powell; plus Raul Malo, The Wilders with Furnace Mountain, The Quebe Sisters Band, Tim Eriksen, Elizabeth Cook, Marty Stewart, Brian Kennedy, The Sharon Shannon Big Band with Imelda May, Shane MacGowan & Mundy, Otros Aires and The StepCrew. Box office: 0141 353 8000;
www.celticconnections.com
The Whittlesea Straw Bear
Festival takes place in Whittlesey, Cambs on January 14th – 16th, including wall-to-wall morris and molly dancers, a concert with Flossie Malavialle, Ruth Price and Bob Fisher, dancing to Elvis Fontenot & The Sugar Bees and Hedgehog’s Skin, storytelling and the traditional Sunday bear burning (it’s made of straw, OK?).
www.strawbear.org.uk
Commonplace: Clear Voices In
A Cluttered World (9th – 12th Feb) runs at London’s Kings Place, York
Way, N1 with Karine Polwart, Chris Wood, Michael Marra, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Martin Carthy, Alasdair Roberts, Simon Armitage, Corrina Hewat and Hugh Lupton. Tel: 020 7520 1490;
www.kingsplace.co.uk
The 8th edition of Sauti Za
Busara Music Festival – an international festival showcasing and celebrating the wealth and diversity of music from East Africa and beyond – takes place in Stone Town, Zanzibar from 9th – 13th February 2011. The line-up includes: Djeli Moussa Diawara, Cheikh Lô, Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou, Blick Bassy, Otentikk Street Brothers, Kasse Mady Diabate, Kwani Experience, Mlimani Park Orchestra, Culture Musical Club, Mohamed Ilyas & Nyota Zameremeta, Maulidi Ya Homu Ya Mtendeni, Sukiafrica Sukiyaki Allstars, Yaaba Funk, Sousou & Maher Cissoko, Sinachuki Kidumbak, Swahili Encounters Group, Les Frères Sissoko, Geata, Groove Lélé, News Quartet, Vusa Mkhaya & Band, Nomakanjani Arts, Maureen Lupo Lilanda, Les Go De Kotéba, Djaaka, Muthoni The Drummer Queen, Lelelele Africa, Bismillahi Gargar, Atemi & The Ma3 Band, Black Roots, Sauda, Tunaweza Band, Wanyambukwa Artist Group, Tom Diakite and more.
www.busaramusic.org
The Celtic Footprint is a new winter festival taking place in Chichester (11th – 13th Feb). Confirmed artists include: The Cara Dillon Band, Anxo Lorenzo Big Band, Lunasa, The Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir, Harriet Earis, Allan Yn Y Fan, Capercaillie and Richard Wood.
www.rootsaroundtheworld.info
The 15th Cheltenham Folk
Festival (11th – 13th February) features The Askew Sisters, The Yetties, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan and Lúnasa. Tel: 0844 576 2210.
www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk/ folk-festival/
Gainsborough American Old
Time Music & Dance Festival 2011 runs from 18th to 20th February at the Queen Elizabeth High School with The Mostly Mountain Boys, Tamara Loewenthal with
Culture Musical Club play at home: Sauti Za Busara
Photo: Masoud Khamis
Photo: Jak Kilby
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