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Various Artists Sones Y Huapangos (Cordae/La Talvera); Various Artists Swing Diskoteka (Eastblok); Various Artists Yn Chruinnaght:The Gathering - An Interceltic Celebration (own label); Vindrosa Østenfor Sol (East Of The Sun) (Vagabond); Vintage Wildflowers Lovely Madness (own label); Yom & The Wonder Rabbies With Love (Buda Musique); The Woodshedders Oh Dig (Shepherds Ford); Nimrod Workman Mother Jones’ Will (Musical Traditions); Antonio Zambujo Por Meu Cante (Ocarina/World Village); Greg Zlap Air (Le Chant Du Monde).
DVD: Various Artists Acoustic Africa In Concert (Contre Jour - CD + DVD); Various Artists Acoustic Guitar Masters Vol. 1 (Acoustic Music GmbH); The Waterson Family Live At Hull Truck (Beautiful North/Jay-Jay Media).
MISC.
We were sad to hear of the deaths of Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra founder Dave Creech on 4th May aged 73; of Irish poet, author, folksinger and songwriter Patrick Galvin on 9th May aged 83; of Dando Shaft and Whippersnapper and Bert Jansch band musician Martin Jenkins on 17th May aged 65; of No Right Turn singer Jayne Cooper on 25th May aged 52; of US musician, poet and ‘godfather of rap’ Gil Scott Heron on 28th May aged 62.
Correction: an error by
Amazon UK resulted in them not including June Tabor's Ashore in the data they supplied us for our June Issue chart (based on April sales). If they'd got it right, she'd have been at No.17. and everything there and below in the chart on p77 of that issue would have been one place lower. Apologies from where the buck stops: we should have noticed.
On BBC Radio 2’s Mike
Harding show (Wednesdays, 7pm) Graeme Taylor talks about the re-formed Home Service (22nd June), the new production of The Transports for Sidmouth Festival gets discussed (29th) and Spiers &
William Kimber
Boden talk about their 10th anniversary, the release of their new CD The Works and the completion of Jon’s year long A Folk Song A Day project (6th July).
BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction (19th, 20th & 21st June at 11pm) will present live sets from Latitude Festival, presented by Max Reinhardt.
Best-laid plans etc: fRoots’ imminent relocation means silly workloads, so the previously trailed doubling of the fRoots Radio podcast frequency to fortnightly has had to be postponed until earliest September. Watch this space – and
www.podwireless.com
A blue plaque has been unveiled at the house in Headington, Oxford where morris dancer and musician William Kimber lived. Kimber was a prime source and inspiration for Cecil Sharp after they met in 1899.
Seven Sisters, a multi-piece folk-inspired work by artist David Owen, has been secured by public donations to belong permanently to Cecil Sharp House. It will now hang on public display there, and will also be available for loan to galleries and other organisations.
A Century Of Folk Customs & Ancient Rural Games is a new double-disc DVD being released by the BFI in July, celebrating folk customs on film, produced in collaboration with EFDSS and the regional film archives – a wide ranging collection of films which documents and celebrates the folk customs, songs and dances of Great Britain. Amongst the highlights included are Alan Lomax’s glorious Padstow May Day film Oss Oss Wee Oss (1954); a series of 1912 Kinora spools featuring traditional dances by pioneering folklorists Cecil Sharp and George Butterworth; 1920s newsreels charting Shrove Tuesday football contests; and recent footage shot by filmmakers Doc Rowe and Jeremy Deller showing the contemporary performance of folk customs and rituals.
Andy Kershaw’s No Off
Switch is a “no-holds-barred autobiography of a full-throttle life”, published this month by Profile/Serpent’s Tail in hardback and e-book. Andy will also be taking part in a national speaking tour from autumn 2011 to spring 2012 and The Rough Guide To
Tonight, Matthew… by David Owen. Visit
www.theinkcorporation.co.uk for prints, postcards, pop folk art and other beautiful things.
Andy Kershaw will be released on CD in the autumn.
BBC Radio Scotland are looking for applicants for Young Traditional Musician 2012. Young Scottish musicians between 16 and 27 years can apply (deadline 1st July). A shortlist will be then be selected for a weekend masterclass culminating in a 10- minute performance slot in Wiston Lodge, Wiston, South Lanarkshire in October. From there, the selected finalists will perform at the Grand Final at the Celtic Connections Festival next year. The ultimate winner will be awarded a recording session with BBC Radio Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards and the opportunity
Dave Creech, 2nd left in the Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra
to take part in the TMSA’s annual Young Trad Tour. Application forms can be downloaded from
www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
The winners of our April issue competition to win copies of the deluxe Spanish version of Ojos De Brujo’s Corriente Vital: 10 Anos correctly identified their lead singer as Marina ‘La Canillas’ Abad and were Steve Hill of Chichester; Edward Dorey of Nottingham; Paul Matheson of Glasgow; Rob Southern of Raglan, New Zealand; Caroline Maynard of Winchester; Adri Remeeus of Den Haag, Netherlands; Nigel Wheatley of Wimbledon Chase, London; Toine Horsten of Asten, Netherlands; John Martin of Swindon; and Ken Hawkins of Dereham.
Gil Scott Heron
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Keith Morris
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