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Modeste, Adel Elbrary, Zong Zing, Lokito Ya Congo, Terence O'Flaherty, Mosi Conde and more. Tel: 020 7264 0007;
www.culturalco-
operation.org
Songlines Encounters Festival
takes place at London's Kings Place from 6th – 9th June with R.U.T.A, Lepistö & Lehti, Kosmos Ensemble plus Milo Milivojeviç, Fugata Quintet, Spiro, Le Vent du Nord, Sam Lee & Friends, Yiddish Twist Orchestra feat. Sam, The Madagascar All Stars (including Dama, Justin Vali and Regis Gizavo) and Soufian Saihi.
www.songlines.co.uk/encounters
Wirral Folk On The Coast
(7th – 10th June) has a line-up including Kieran Goss, Harvey Andrews, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, Mike Silver & Jo Partridge, The Tom McConville Band, Keith Donnelly, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Bernard Wrigley, The Young 'Uns, Anthony John Clarke and Elbow Jane.
www.wirralfolkonthecoast.com
Wychwood Festival,
Cheltenham runs from 8th – 10th June with Bellowhead, Sharon Shannon, JuJu, Mahala Rai Banda, The Saw Doctors, Show Of Hands, Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends, The Dhol Foundation, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party, The Magic Tombolinos, The Roving Crows, Hawkwind, Dizraeli & The Small Gods, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman and more. Tel: 01993 772580;
www.wychwoodfestival.com
The 30th St Neots Folk
Festival (8th – 10th June) sees guest appearances from Oysterband, Bella Hardy, Quicksilver, Baz Parkes and more. Tel. 01234 376278
www.stneotsfolkclub.co.uk
Appearing at Wimborne Folk
Festival (8th – 10th June) are Lunasa, Cara, Rua Macmillan Trio, Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies, Heidi Talbot, John McCusker & Boo Hewerdine, Kevin Dempsey, Carolyn Robson & Karen Tweed, Mike Silver & Jo Partridge, The Outside Track, Damien O’Kane Trio, Jennifer Crook & Beth Porter, Walsh & Pound. Tel: 01202 623740;
www.wimbornefolkfestival.co.uk
Oystabors – Big Session Appearing at Gower Folk
Festival (8th – 10th June) are Le Vent du Nord, Jackie Oates Band, Heretique, The Old Dance School, Damien O'Kane Trio, Lady Maisery, Bellevue Rendezvous, Tyde, Les Souris Dansent, Seize The Day, James Findlay, DnA (AKA Delyth & Angharad Jenkins), Brian Peters, Maggie Boyle, Paul Downes, Gren Bartley and Rachel Newton & Lillias Kinsman-Blake.
www.gowerfolkfestival.co.uk
No Direction Home takes
place at Wellbeck Abbey, Sherwood Forest from 8th – 10th June with The Unthanks with The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, Martin Carthy, The Cornshed Sisters, Martin Simpson, Rachael Dadd, Trembling Bells and more.
www.nodirectionhomefestival.com
The 20th Annual Bagpipe Society Blowout takes place at Polesworth Abbey, Nr Tamworth from 8th – 10th June with blowing from Olle Gällmo, Erik Ask-Upmark, Göran Hallmarken, Daughters of Elvin, Tom Hughes, Richard York, Olle Gällmo, Erik Ask- Upmark, Tom Hughes & Richard York, Pat Lindop, Andy Letcher and Ian Clabburn.
www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/ blowout-2012
Luminato Festival, Toronto, runs from 8th – 17th June with artists including AfroCubism, Fatoumata Diawara, Shantel, Jovanotti, K'naan, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Ernest Ranglin, Calypso Rose, Michael Rose, Kobo Town, Debo Band, Telmary, Rufus Wainwright, Kathleen Edwards, Dan Mangan and Ohbijou. A Joe Boyd produced tribute to Kate McGarrigle, Love Over & Over features Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Anna & Jane McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Jane Siberry and more.
www.luminato.com
The Big Session (15th – 17th June) at Catton Hall, Walton On Trent sees a line-up including hosts Oysterband & June Tabor, Eddi Reader, Show Of Hands, Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings,
Chumbawamba, Chris Wood,
Kris Drever Trio, Martin Simpson Band, Boo Hewerdine hosts State Of The Union Songwriters Circle, Brooks Williams, John Douglas & Kris Drever, Dizraeli & The Small Gods, Roddy Woomble, Treacherous Orchestra, DJ Pete Lawrence, The Magic Tombolinos, Abandoman, Kami Thompson, Habadekuk, Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell, Lucy Ward, Tyde, Walsh & Pound, Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party, Megan Henwood, Duotone, Mawkin, Simon Care and more. Box Office 023 8071 1818;
www.bigsessionfestival.com
Beverley Folk Festival (15th – 17th June) has guest appearances from Steeleye Span, Peatbog Faeries, Home Service, Chumbawamba, Martin Carthy, Coope, Boyes & Simpson, Shooglenifty, Abigail Washburn and many more, including Joe Brown.
www.beverleyfestival.com
Middlewich Folk & Boat
Festival (15th – 17th June) has featured acts: Show Of Hands, The Boat Band, Les Barker, Mark Radcliffe, All Blacked Up, The Toy Hearts and many more. Tel: 01606 833434;
www.midfest.org.uk
Snowdon Fiddle Festival takes place on 16th June in Nant Peris, Gwynedd with Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Robert Evans and Clwb Ffidil yr Wyddfa amongst lots of other fiddlers.
www.gwylffidil.info
Festival Mundial runs on 16th
& 17th June in Tilburg, Netherlands with guests including The Dropkick Murphys, Stephen Marley, AfroCubism, Habib Koite and
more.www.festivalmundial.nl
The Steamboat Folk Weekend takes place at the Steamboat Tavern on the riverside in Ipswich (16th & 17th June) with Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer, Folk Collective, Medlars, The Kettle Girls, Roy Mette and more.
www.irfmf.org.uk
Golowan Festival in Cornwall runs from 16th – 24th June with music from local acts Richard Trethewey & Jim Causley, Mad Dog Mcrea, Dalla as well as a Mock Mayor Election and Golowan Ceilidh.
www.golowan.org
The Imagined Village – Sunrise
Celebrating Sanctuary at Bernie Spain Gardens, Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 (adjacent to Oxo Tower Wharf) takes place on 17th June – an annual free festival which celebrates the art of refugee communities in the UK and launches Refugee Week. This year’s event features Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos, Eska, Elysian Quartet, Maya Youssef, José Hernando Noguera, Angelica Lopez, Jeremy Hardy, Peyman Heydarian, Mansour Izadpanah, Sam Lee, Tanya Auclair, Reem Kelani, Cerys Matthews with oud player Attab Haddad. A Casablanca Event takes place at the V & A on 22nd June with Maurice El Medioni, Khyam Alami, Reem Kelani, El Andaluz Trio plus screenings of Casablanca and Round The Bloc at Rich Mix (23rd June) and Cerys Matthews presenting The London Bulgarian Choir lead by Dessislava Stefanova, Lazlo, Mensa and Wanlov The Kubolor's Fokn Bois project as part of East in East Festival.
www.refugeeweek.org.uk
SOAS World Music Summer
School runs from 18th June – 15th July at SOAS on Thornhaugh Street, London. See website:
www.soas.ac.uk/summerschool
The line-up for this year’s
Leigh Folk Festival (21st – 24th June) includes Martin Carthy, Alasdair Roberts, Jez Lowe, Tom McConville & Dave Newey, Mawkin, Sharron Kraus, Nancy Wallace, Jason Steel, The False Beards (Ian Anderson & Ben Mandelson), The Straw Bear Band, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts, Rattle On The Stovepipe and more.
www.leighfolkfestival.com
love:live music takes place
throughout Ireland on Thursday 21st June as part of celebrations for International Music Day – Fête de la Musique with free live music events in cities, towns and villages all over the country.
www.lovelivemusic.ie
Sunrise Celebration runs from 21st – 24th June in South Somerset with The Imagined Village, Warsaw Village Band, Dizraeli & The Small Gods, The Destroyers Sheelanagig, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and more.
www.sunrisecelebration.com
Photo: Rob O”Connor
Photo: Judith Burrows
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