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Gathering runs from 29th April to 1st May with High Level Ranters, Stewart Hardy & Fligarishon, Border Directors, Ellington Colliery Band, Es Rebost Dancers, Ray Alexander, Jim Grant, Keith Gregson, Professor Gruenmensch, Hautbois, Rent A Peasant, Sedayne & Rachel, Thingumajig Theatre, Time Bandits, Time For George, Voicemale, Trevor Wishart and more.
www.northumbriana.org.uk
Bristol Folk Festival is
returning to the city after 32 years from 29th April – 1st May. The Colston Hall event has headline appearances by Show Of Hands, Bellowhead and Seth Lakeman, Dervish, Bella Hardy, Belshazzar’s Feast, Jim Moray, Fisherman’s Friends and more. Tel: 0117 922 3686;
www.bristolfolkfestival.com
Folk Set In Sandstone sees two nights of folk in Bickerton, Cheshire, with Madcap and Rick Sanders and his band (29th – 30th April.) Tel: 077 900 82523;
www.cheshirefolk.com
BaaFest 2011 in Riverdale
Hall, Bellingham runs from 29th April – 1st May with The Churchfitters, The Old Dance School, Bob Fox, Patsy Matheson, Clive Gregson, Rod Clements, Horses Brawl. Tel: 01434 221235;
www.baafest.co.uk
Filey Free Folk Festival takes place on 29th April – 1st May at the Station Pub, Church Street, Filey. Tel 01723 515117
Rochester Sweeps Festival
(30th April – 2nd May) features appearances from Eliza Carthy & Band, Martin Carthy and Show Of Hands. Tel: 01634 338338;
www.whatsonmedway.co.uk
Further ahead, Beverley
Festival 2011 at Beverley Leisure Complex (17th – 19th June) has artists confirmed to date including Barbara Dickson, Bellowhead, Salsa Celtica Acoustica, Spiers & Boden, Sean Taylor, Jerry Harmon, Ewan McLennan, Forro Porro, Fay Hield Trio, Ahab, 4 Square, Moore, Moss, Rutter and Adrian Spendlow. Tel: 01377 217569;
www.beverleyfestival.com
This year’s Sidmouth Folk
Week (29th July – 5th August) sees gigs with Genticorum, Show Of
Bella Hardy: Bristol
Hands, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Writing On The Wall with Tony Benn & Roy Bailey, Kate Rusby, The Transports with the all-star cast including Martin Carthy, Jon Boden, Jackie Oates, Eliza Carthy, Damien Barber, Jim Moray, Jim Causley, Sam Sweeney and Paul Sartin, Dougie MacLean, Karine Polwart, Alasdair Roberts, Damien O’Kane, Home Service, Peggy Seeger, Nancy Wallace, O’Hooley & Tidow, The Old Dance School, Sam Carter, Sam Sweeney & Hannah James, Thomas McCarthy, Walsh & Pound, The Chair, The Yiddish Twist Orchestra, Anxo Lorenzo, Moishe’s Bagel, The Unusual Suspects, The Privateers featuring Jim Moray, Gavin Davenport, Nick Wyke, Mark Jolley, Tom Wright and Simon Care, Nidi D’Arac, Silent Folkin’ Disco & Ceilidh: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Glorystrokes, Random, The Simon Care All- Stars, Tiger Moth and The Motown Ceilidh. Box Office: 01395 578627;
www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
Fairport Convention have announced the line-up for their annual music festival, Fairport’s Cropredy Convention (11th – 13th August). Headline acts include themselves, Seasick Steve, Badly Drawn Boy, Blockheads, Hayseed Dixie and Horslips. Also appearing are Moore, Moss, Rutter, Lau, The Urban Folk Quartet and recently-reformed folk legends Home Service amongst others.
www.fairportconvention.com
Towersey Village Festival
(25th – 29th August) tops its biggest line-up to date with Billy Bragg plus The Imagined Village, Cara Dillon, The Cecil Sharp Project, Oysterband, Bellowhead, Show Of Hands, Kepa Junkera Band, 17 Hippies, Turtle Duhks, Home Service, Martin Simpson Band, Demon Barber Roadshow, Spiers & Boden, Gerry O’Connor Trio, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Breabach, John Tams & Barry Coope, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Burns Unit, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lau, The Sweetback Sisters, Martyn Joseph, Reg Meuross, Jim Moray, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Sam
Billy Bragg: Towersey billtopper
Carter, Brooks Williams, Walsh & Pound, Calan, Uiscedwr, Lucy Ward, Hekety, PolkaWorks, Glorystrokes, Grand Union, Chalktown and many more. Box Office: 01629 827016;
www.towerseyfestival.com
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
(26th – 29th August) has a line-up including Bellowhead, Cecil Sharp Project, The Imagined Village, Cara Dillon, Oysterband, Martin Simpson Band, Show Of Hands, Breabach, Chris Wood & Andy Cutting, Home Service, Demon Barber Roadshow, Jim Moray, John Tams & Barry Coope, Martyn Joseph, Spiers & Boden, 17 Hippies, Kepa Junkera Band, Turtle Duhks, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Brooks Williams, The Sweetback Sisters and Sam
Carter.Tel: 01746 768813
www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk
Sadly, a growing number of 2011 folk festivals have had to be cancelled: Oxford Folk Festival, Leicester’s Big Session and Trowbridge Village Pump Festival.
TOURS
The Unthanks have April dates at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London (1st); St Paul’s Church, Cambridge (2nd); Norwich Arts Centre (4th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (5th); Birmingham Town Hall (6th); Stanley Theatre, Liverpool (7th); Vicar St, Dublin (9th); Cork School Of Music (10th); Dolans, Limerick (11th); The Roisin Dubh, Galway (12th); The Riverbank Theatre, Kildare (13th); The Empire, Belfast (14th); Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (15th); Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (16th); The Arches, Glasgow (17th); Tyne Theatre, Newcastle (18th); Picture House, Hebden Bridge (19th).
www.the-unthanks.com
Spiers & Boden 10th
Anniversary Tour takes in Brewhouse, Coal Orchard, Taunton (1st April): Salisbury Arts Centre (2nd); Haverhill Arts Centre (3rd); Colchester Arts Centre (4th); Farnham Maltings (6th); Huntingdon Hall, Chapel Walk, Crowngate, Worcester (7th); Theatr Mwldan, Bath House Road,
Seun Kuti
Cardigan (8th); Brewery Arts Centre, Highgate, Kendal (9th); The Sage, St Mary’s Sq, Gateshead Quays (10th); National Centre For Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York (11th); Red Lion Folk Club, Vicarage Rd, Birmingham (13th); Theatre Severn, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury, (14th); Phoenix Arts Centre, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter (15th); Oxford Folk Festival, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford (16th). www.spiers&
boden.co.uk
Orquesta Buena Vista
Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo continue with UK dates at De Montfort Hall, Leicester (1st April); Theatre Royal, Norwich (2nd); Cliff Pavilion, Southend (3rd); Symphony Hall, Birmingham (5th); Town Hall, Cheltenham (6th); St David’s Hall, Cardiff (7th); Colston Hall, Bristol (9th); New Theatre, Oxford (10th); City Hall, Salisbury (11th); Pavilions, Plymouth (13th); Lighthouse, Poole (14th); Anvil, Basingstoke (15th); Dome, Brighton (17th); Assembly Hall, Tunbridge Wells (18th); Royal Albert Hall, London (19th).
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and
Donso appear at Royal Festival Hall, London (13th); Royal & Derngate, Northampton (15th); Usher Hall, Edinburgh (16th); The Ritz, Manchester (18th); Colston Hall, Bristol (19th); The Anvil, Basingstoke (20th); Lighthouse, Poole (21st).
musicbeyondmainstream.co.uk
The Shee play The Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare (14th April); Lichfield Guildhall (15th); Oxford Folk Festival (16th & 17th); The Slaughtered Lamb, London (18th); Coldingham (19th); Edinburgh Folk Club, The Pleasance (20th); Newcastle University (lunchtime concert) (21st); The Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy, Fife (21st); Skippinish Ceilidh House, Oban (22nd); Eden Court, Inverness (23rd).
Alasdair Roberts plays The Black Box, Belfast (23rd March); St David’s Hall, Cardiff (19th April); The Grand, York Street, Clitheroe (20th); CCA Glasgow (21st); Sacred Trinity Church, Chapel Street, Salford (29th); Trades Club, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge (30th).
BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Musician Of The Year award winner Andy Cutting has dates
Photo: Jak Kilby
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Anthony St James
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