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Coming soon to Norwich Arts Centre, St. Benedict’s Street are Spectro Presents Quantic & His Combo Barbaro, The Raghu Dixit Project, Mud Morganfield and more. 01603 660352;
www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Martin Carthy & Dave
Swarbrick, Lau, Kate Rusby, John McSherry, Breabach, Calan, Bruce Molsky, Karine Polwart and Bella Hardy appear at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall . Tel: 0151 709 3789;
www.liverpoolphil.com
Sain Zahoor – Barbican Transcender
season which looks at transcendental, devotional, spiritual and sacred music with JuJu and Bombino (23rd September); Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares (24th); The Ecstatic Journey: Music From Around The Sufi World with Sain Zahoor, Marouane Hajji, The Fakirs Of Gorbhanga & The Ensemble Syubbanul Akhyar (28th). Tel: 020 7638 8891;
www.barbican.org.uk
Autumn dates at The Sage
Gateshead include Shanty Boat Trip with The Keelers (13th August); Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers (11th September); Dougie Maclean (16th); Vin Garbutt – Teesside Troubadour (17th); Folkworks: All Along The Wall – Brampton Live Festival’s specially commissioned song and poetry show with Jez Lowe, Julie
Matthews, Rory McLeod, Boo Hewerdine, Ruth Notman, Kate Bramley, Kate Fox, Elvis McGonagall (25th); Kathryn Tickell: Northumbrian Voices (30th). Tel: 0191 443 4661;
www.thesagegateshead.org
Whitstable Folk Nights
welcome Jackie Oates Band, Po’ Girl, Bob Brozman, Sean Taylor, Kris Drever & Eamon Coyne , John Smith and Wizz Jones to their autumn club nights at The Royal Native Oyster Stores. Tel: 07895 683567;
www.whitstablefolk.co.uk or
Coming up at The Goose Is
Out! in East Dulwich, London SE22 are Matthew Ord, Wizz Jones, Bella Hardy, Alchemy, Lucy Ward and more, plus a monthly singaround.
www.thegooseisout.com
Ruben Blades returns to the UK for an exclusive concert on 28th July at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London W12. Tel: 0844 477 2000 /
o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk
The Village Pump Folk Club at The Lamb Inn, Mortimer Street, Trowbridge has future dates with Mike Silver, Chris Wood, Pete Morton, Barron Brady and more. Tel: 01225 707346;
www.villagepump.org.uk
Hebden Bridge Trades Club
sees visits from Roddy Woomble, Po’ Girl, My Sweet Patootie, Eleanor McEvoy & Al Lewis. Tel: 01422 845265;
www.tradesclub.info
Roy Bailey, Jackie Oates
and Sam Carter are amongst the guests appearing soon at London’s King Place. Tel: 0844 254 0321;
www.kingspace.co.uk
A charity concert of Japanese folk music will be held in London on Monday 1st August. The focus is on music from the disaster- ridden northeast (Tohoku). Folk Music Japan: A Celebration For
These recently in: Gochag
Askarov Mugham (Felmay); Amina Alaoui Arco Iris (ECM); Bartram, Brookes & Weatherall New Midsummer’s Day (101); Battlefield Band Line-Up (Temple); Beoga How To Tune A Fish (Compass); Besh O Drom Kertünk Alatt (Narrator); Blink Blink (NORCD); David Bromberg
CDs
Tohoku with Duo (Shunsuke Kimura and Etsuro Ono) takes place at Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS. £2 of each ticket will go to Tohoku disaster relief.
www.soas.ac.uk
Peace One Day at the O2
Arena London on 21st September features Youssou N’Dour on the line-up.
www.peaceoneday.org.
Advance notice of highlights
of London’s Cecil Sharp House autumn programme: As If Possessed: celebrating the life and work of Maud Karpeles with Georgina Boyes, Mike Yates and Derek Schofield (1st October); Spiers & Boden (1st); Men On The Fiddle with Rua Macmillan and Sam Sweeney (6th); Apple Day (15th); centenary celebrations The EFDSS National Gathering with guests David Fleming-Williams, Eliza Carthy, Alistair Anderson, John Kirkpatrick (12th November); Kathryn Tickell: Northumbrian Voices (27th). Tel: 020 7485 2206;
www.efdss.org
WIN! British Folk Customs DVDs
The BFI in collaboration with the EFDSS have compiled Here’s A Health To The Barley Mow, a 2 disc set of 44 newly remastered films, accompanied by a 58-page booklet of essays and notes by leading folk authorities.
The six hour collection includes Alan Lomax’s Padstow May Day film Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953); a series of 1912 Kinora Spools featuring traditional dances by pioneering folklorists Cecil Sharp and George Butterworth; Richard Philpott’s celebration of ancient pre-Christian spring rituals in The Flora Faddy Furry Dance Day (1989); 1920s newsreels charting Shrove Tuesday football contests; and recent footage shot by filmmakers Doc Rowe and Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller with Alan Kane. There are the anarchic ball games played in Leicester and Orkney; the Mummers' plays of Derbyshire, Dorset and Dartmoor; the Burry Man of West Lothian; sword and step dancing in Yorkshire and Norfolk; and the carrying of barrels of burning tar in Ottery St Mary, Devon. The silent films feature innovative fiddle and melodeon accompaniments by contemporary folk musicians. And we’ve got six to win!
All you have to do to be in with a chance is be a current fRoots subscriber and answer the question below. Email your answers to
comps@frootsmag.com with ‘BFI DVD Comp’ in the subject line, to reach here by 30th September. Don’t for- get to give us your name and address including postcode.
Q: Where do the Britannia Coconut Dancers come from?
Photo: Jak Kilby
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