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f10 And also at Cecil Sharp House,


monthly Wednesday ceilidhs with The Rakes (Reg Hall, Michael Plunkett, Paul Gross, Ken Lees) with caller Steve Roud and a few surprise guests begin on 29th February. Tickets 020 8527 8419


Coming soon to Norwich


Arts Centre are Chris Smither, Jamie Smith’s Mabon, Southern Tenant Folk Union, Mary Hampton Cotillion, Spiro, Cliff Stapleton, Ellen & The Escapades, King Creosote, Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns. Tel: 01603660352; norwichartscentre.co.uk


Folk Union gigs at Kings


Place, London include dates with Babelfish and The Memory Band. Tel: 0844 254 0321; www.kingsplace.co.uk


Town Hall & Symphony Hall,


Birmingham sees future dates with Martin Simpson Trio, Transatlantic Sessions, Fairport Convention, Joan Baez and The Dubliners. Tel: 0121 780 3333; www.thsh.co.uk


Wiltshire Music Centre in


Bradford On Avon has a spring programme including Muzsikas, Genticorum, Breabach, Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar, Fapy Lafertin and Megson. www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk


CDs These recently in: Steinar


Aadnekvam Abacaxeiro (Music Makes You Happy); Across The Border Folkpunk Air-Raid (Twisted Chords); Kiran Ahluwalia Aam Zameen (Avokado Artists Recordings); The Albion Christmas Band A Sound In The Frosty Air (Rooksmere Records); Aurélie & Verioca Além Des Nuages (own label); Claudia Aurora Silêncio (World Village); Pers Anders Buen Garnås Seljord Anno 1935 (Ta:Lik); Nizamettin Aric Azadi (Kalan); Murat Aydemir Trio (Kalan); Badume’s Band/Selamnesh Zemene (Innacor); Baloji Kinshasa Succursale (Crammed); Basco Big Basco (Go’ Danish Folk Music); Mary Black Stories From The Steeples (3ú Records); Blackbeard’s Tea Party Tomorrow We’ll Be Sober (own label); The Bottoms Up Blues


Mary Hampton: Norwich


Gang Handle It (Blue Skunk Music); Billy Bragg Fight Songs (own label); Cristina Branco Live In Amsterdam, Netherlands (ARC Music); Aslak O. Brimi & Erlend Voken Ho Venta På Rock (Ta:Lik); Brocc 13 Moons (PipeDream Music); Keith B. Brown Down The Line (DixieFrog); Michael Jerome Browne The Road Is Dark (Borealis); Buika En Mi Piel (Warner Music); Frank Burkitt Valley Of Gold (own label); Aaron Burton Rising Sun (own label); Baba Hampartzum Besteler ve Saraganlar (Kalan); Calan Jonah (Sain); Caravane Caravane (Marrakchi Records); The Carrborators Caffeinated Heart (own label); Jeff Caresse Les Manelles Du Desir (Appel); Cecilia In Bad (Appel Rekords); Chuantong Orchestra China: Classical & Folk Music (Production Sunset-France); Sousou & Maher Cissokho Stockholm – Dakar (Ajabu); Andrew Cronshaw The Unbroken Surface Of Snow (Cloud Valley); Crooked Still Friends Of Fall (Signature); Frente Cumbiero Meets Mad Professor (VampiSoul); Z.M.Dagar & Z.F.Dagar Ragini Miyan Ki Todi (Country & Eastern); Lino Davide & Viamedina Uno, Luna E Monte (FolkClub Ethnosuoni); Deep Cabaret 3 EP (own label); Kim Delcour Soundtrack Van Een Landschap (Appel); The Delta Saints The Delta Saints (Dixie Frog); The Devil’s Brides Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi (ARC Music); Ani Difranco Which Side Are You On? (Righteous Babe); DOA A Fronda Dos Cervos (Fol Musica); Dub Caravan Nomadic Fusions (DubMed); Duotone Ropes (ECC Records); Pat Egan & Alex Caton Fiddle Tunes & Ballads (own label); Erdal Erzincan Girdab-i Mihmet (Kalan); Kieran Fahy & Jacques Pirotton The Emigrant’s Lament (Mogno Music); Enzo Favata & Mario Crispi Insulae (Isola dei Suoni); Paul Geremia Love My Stuff (Red House Records); Moncef Ghachem, Biagio Guerrera & Pocket Poetry Orchestra Quelli Che Bruciano La Frontiera (FolkClub Ethnosuoni); David Gogo Soul-Bender (Dixie Frog); Dagger Gordon & Colin Gordon Like Father Like Son (Dagger Music); Guelewar Halleli N’Dakarou (Teranga Beat); Grand Union Orchestra If Paradise (RedGold Records); Group Inerane Guitars From Agadez Vol.


3 (Sublime Frequencies); James Harrison Get Under The Carpet (RDC); The Henry Girls December Moon (own label); Las Hermanas Caronni Baguala De La Siesta (Snail Records); Jim Higgins, Orla Harrington & Andrew MacNamara Flagstone Memories (own label); Fumie Hihara & Sozan Chiaki Kariya Japon Traditionnel: Koto & Shakuachi (Sunset France); The Hot Seats Live (own label); Iona Silver (Barnaby Production); Insingizi Ndebele Songs (Ocora/Radio France); Istiklal Trio Istiklal Trio (own label); Jadid Ensemble Sigh Of The Moor (own label); Jigfoot Nothing At All (Melting Pot); Chuck Johnson A Struggle Not A Thought (Strange Attractors); Wizz Jones Huldenberg Blues (Sunbeam); C Joynes Congo (Bo’ Weavil); Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band Rubber Orchestras (Naïve); Karandila Junior Ghetto “Hope” (Balkan Fever); Alan Kelly Gang Small Towns & Famous Nights (Blackbox Music); Pete Kiddle Gunpowder Tea (HayHo); Arthur Kitchener The Hobo Manifesto (HMI Records); N’Faly Kouyate Kora Strings featuring Mamady Keita (Namun); The Lazy Susans One More Time (Egghouse); Lepistö & Lehti Radio Moskova (Aito); Lil’Bear Singers Native American Indian (Sunset France); Didier Laloy Noir’s (Wild Boar Music); Didier Laloy Invites S-Tres Pô-Z]s (Wild Boar Music); Einar Olav Larsen Trio Lysblåin (Etnisk Musikklubb); Lil Rev The Happiest Way To Be Sad (Fountain Of Uke Records); Little Axe If You Want Loyalty, Buy A Dog (On-USound); Llama Rompiendos Aguas (World Village); Locarno Una Mas Y Ya Nos Wamos (Jericho Beach); Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Sony Masterworks); Sakaki Mango & Limba Train Sound System Oi! Limba! (Yokabanna Unlimited); Donal McCague Bits’N’Pieces (own label); McCamy’s Melody Sheikhs There’s More Pretty Girls Than One (Arhoolie); Bora Mercedes Baron (Arecords); Melingo Corazon & Hueso (World Village); Christina Mimmocchi Rumours Of Summer (8arms); Minor Empire Second Nature (World Trip Records); Mjelva/ Tamnes Hi Mi Pols! (Ta:Lik); Christy Moore Folk Tale


Anoushka Shankar – new album


(Colombia); Mumuvitch Disko Orkestar Wir Liefern Instrumente (Musique Estetica); Erol Mutlu Ates Düser Sarkilara (Kalan); Muzsikás The Very Best Of…Fly Bird, Fly (Nascente); Nadishana Trio Far & Near (Sound Microsurgery Dept); Naragonia Quartet Batiska (Appel); Paddy O’Brien Mixing The Punch (New Folk Records); Maz O’Connor On Leaves Or On Sand EP (Haystack Records); The Once Row Upon Row Of The People They Know (Borealis Records); Orchestre Del’s Jazz Biguine 1951-1953 (Frémeaux & Associés); Orquestra Arab De Barcelona Libertad (World Village); Oudaden Empreinte (Buda Musique); Sirin Pancaroglu, Meriç Dönük & Jarrod Cagwin Elisi (Kalan); Peru Andino Peru: Hymne Au Soleil (Production Sunset-France); Pignose Old Town Blues (own label); Preludiu Chants Orthodoxes Byzantins (Sunset France); Rakija Ojda! (Rakija Records); Tim Readman & Jennie Bice Out Of The Green (Big City); Jimmy Reed I’m Jimmy Reed (Charly); Llio Rhydderch/Tomos Williams Carn Ingli: Hud ar Dyfed (Fflach:Tradd); Josep-Maria Ribelles Ondines Ballen (Armando Records); Riu Riu (own label); The Duke Robillard Band Low Down & Tore Up (Dixie Frog); Rún Sé: Songs From The Six Celtic Nations (own label); Kate Rusby While Mortals Sleep (Pure Records); Sabicas & Escudero The Fantastic Guitars Of…(El Records); Carmelo Salemi & Tarabballà Le Danze Di Syraka (FolkClub Ethnosuoni); Sambasunda Quintet Java (Riverboat Records); Sevda Exclusive Collector’s Edition (Caprice); Anoushka Shankar Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon); Ravi Shankar Nine Decades Vol.II: Reminiscence Of North Vista (East Meets West Music); Ravi Shankar Nine Decades Vol.III: Orchestral Experimentations (East Meets West Music); Shantalla Turas (Appel); Shazalakazoo Karton City Boom (Eastblok Music); Cosy Sheridan The Horse King (Waterbug); The Ships King Alfred’s Cakes (own label); Anita Skorgan På Gyllen Grunn (Kirkelig Kulturverkstec); Slide To Freedom 20,000 Miles (Northern Blues Music); Snaarmaaarwaar Phosphor Bronze (Appel); Peter &


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