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Rooting About
WHAT’S HAPPENING News Edited by Sarah Coxson
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FESTIVALS & EVENTS
Final call going out for WOMAD Charlton Park, Malmesbury (28th – 31st July). Recent additions to the line up include: Dissidenten, Alabama 3, Ana Moura, El Tanbura, Fatoumata Diawara, Hari Sivanesan with Omar Puente, adding to a line-up headlined by AfroCubism, Baaba Maal, Danyel Waro, Aurelio and more.
womad.org/festivals/charlton-park
Back ending the summer holiday season is one of our perennial favourites Towersey Folk Festival (25th – 29th August) with Billy Bragg, Oysterband, 17 Hippies, The Burns Unit, The Demon Barbers, Home Service, Cara Dillon, Karine Polwart, Spiers & Boden, The Spooky
Men’s Chorale, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Lau, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, 3 Daft Monkeys, Alasdair Roberts, Tim Edey & Brendan Power, Saltfishforty, Roy Bailey, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Brian Peters, Pat Ryan, Broken Click - Track (featuring Martin Green, Inge Thomson & Fraser Fifield), Poisson Rouge Band, James Findlay, Bedlam, Monster Ceilidh Band, Emily Portman, Random, Tyde, The Old Dance School and many more. Box Office: 01629 827016;
www.towerseyfestival.com
SummerTyne Americana
Festival (22nd – 25th July) features a specially commissioned evening of dark twisted murder ballads
Fatoumata Diawara – late Womad addition
with The Handsome Family, Tim Eriksen, Eliza Carthy, Howe Gelb as well as dates with Abigail Washburn & The Village, Irma Thomas, The Savoy Cajun Band, Sarah Jarosz, Lyle Lovett & His Acoustic Group, Hogeye, The Secret Sisters, Rosanne Cash, Solomon Burke, Raul Malo with Northern Sinfonia, Chris Scruggs & Dan Walsh and more. Tel: 0191 443 4661;
www.thesagegateshead.org
Sfinks Mixed Festival at
Molenveld, Boechout, Belgium (29th – 31st July) has a line-up including AfroCubism, Rubén Blades, Alpha Blondy, Systema Solar, Mamer, Khaira Arby, Bomba Estéreo, Hindi Zahra, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Robert Soko, Awza, Ayarkhaan, Sooeun Kwak, Maguaré, Ayfer Duzdas, Lëk Sèn, Dikand and Faiz ali Faiz.
www.sfinks.be
Amongst the glut of good
stuff at Sidmouth Folk Week (29th July – 5th August) are: Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, The Yiddish Twist Orchestra, Fernhill, The Transports, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Dougie MacLean, Nidi D’Arac, Show Of Hands, Roy Bailey & Tony Benn, The Old Swan Band, Rod Stradling’s Phoenix Band, Peggy Seeger, The Morris On Band, Eliza Carthy’s Motown Disco, Teada, Brendan Begley & Caoimhin O’Raghellaigh, Alasdair Roberts and many more.
www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
Riccardo Tesi’s Festival Sentieri Acustici in Pistoia, Italy runs from 30th July to 20th August with appearances from Daniele Sepe, Väsen, Mauro Palmas, Luisa Cottifogli and more.
www.provincia.pistoia.it/ sentieriacustici
Blues Week 2011, a series of workshops and classes, runs from 31st July – 5th August at University of Northampton with tutors, Del Rey, Wizz Jones, Sonny Black, Rick Franklin, Michael Roach, Michael
Wizz Jones – Blues Week
Messer, Homesick Mac, Joe Filisko, Grant Dermody and Danny McCormack.
www.euroblues.co.uk
Feakle International Trad
Music Festival (3rd – 8th August) in Co. Clare, Eire sees appearances from Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill, Niamh Ni Charra, Breanndan O’Beaglaoich, Mary Staunton Band and more.
www.feaklefestival.ie
Urkult Festival in Näsåker,
Sweden (4th – 6th August) sees performances from Carlou D, Shukar Collective, Eta Carinae, Hoven Droven, Nordic, Iti Malo & Suranjana Ghosh, Ketsurat, Maria Kalaniemi, Rising Appalachia, Valeri Dimchev Trio and many more.
www.urkult.se
Edmonton Folk Music
Festival at Gallagher Park, Canada (4th – 7th August) features Matt Andersen, Baka Beyond, Keola & Moana Beamer, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Guy Clark, JP Cormier & The Elliot Brothers, Deer Tick, Etran Finatawa, Stephen Fearing with Andy White, The Flatlanders, Amos Garrett & The Festival House Band, Mary Gauthier, Gipsy Kings, Gough, Clancy, Bracken & McCarthy, Nanci Griffith, The Holmes Brothers, Sarah Jarosz, James Keelaghan Trio, Angelique Kidjo, Kila, k.d. lang & The Siss Boom Bang, Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Taj Mahal, Aurelio, The Del McCoury Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The McDades, Tim Robbins &
The Demon Barbers – Towersey, Shrewsbury, Wallingford
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Judith Burrows
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