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Moulettes, Richard Digance, Ian Mcmillan Orchestra, Michael Messer & The Second Mind, The Blues Band, Wilko Johnson, Rhythm & Blues, Hat Fitz & Cara, Attila The Stockbroker and
more.Tel: 01767 626262;
www.rhythmfestival.com
Solfest (24th – 26th August) takes place at Tarnside Farm, Tarns, Aspatria, Carlisle with The Waterboys, KT Tunstall, Billy Bragg, Seth Lakeman, Transglobal Underground, Larkin Poe, Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, Aberfeldy, The Baghdaddies, The Hut People, Roddy Woomble, This Is The Kit, Walsh & Pound and more.
www.solfest.org.uk
Southsea Folk Roots & Blues
Day takes place on 26th August at the Dockyard Club, Onslow Road with Julie Felix, P.J. Wright, Andy Broad, Reet Petite & Gone, Jon Amor Blues Group.
www.southseafolkfestival.co.uk
The Acoustic Festival in
Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset is a free event running from 30th August – 2nd September with a line-up including New Rope String Band, Dragonsfly, Dan Walsh, Christi Andropolis and
more.www.folkfest.co.uk
Nordsjøfestilvalen i Farsund,
Norway takes place from 30th August – 2nd September with Sigrid Moldestad Band, Kris Drever Trio, Valkyrien Allstars, Heidi Talbot Trio, Antti Paalanen, Rachel Sermanni, Sondre Bratland & Tore Bruvoll, Jaerv, Vegar Vårdal, Moron Police and Five Men In A Boat.
www.nordsjofestivalen.no
Wallingford Bunkfest runs between 31st August – 2nd September with Edward II, Oysterband, Warsaw Village Band, Heron, The Urban Folk Quartet, Sarah McQuaid, Corncrow, The Diatonics Ceilidh Band, Monty’s Maggot and many more.
www.bunkfest.co.uk
Congratulations to Alan Bell
and the Fylde Folk Festival team. This year’s event, running from 31st August – 2nd September, heralds its 40th anniversary at Marine Hall, Fleetwood. Amongst the artists on the bill are: Show Of Hands, John Tams & Barry Coope, Vin Garbutt, Bob Fox, Grace Notes, Roy Bailey, The Wilsons, Jez Lowe & Kate
Bramley, Alistair Anderson, Emily Portman Trio, Marie Little, Hughie Jones, Gary & Vera Aspey The Young ‘Uns, Outside Track, Paul McKenna Band, Harpeth Rising, Dana & Susan Robinson, Ben & Joe Broughton, Martyn Wyndham- Read & Iris Bishop, Elbow Jane, Brian Peters, Alan Bell Band, Gary & Vera Aspey, Hughie Jones, Stanley Accrington, Scolds Bridle, Anna Shannon, Paul Metsers, Rapunzel & Sedayne and many more. The revived Lancashire & North West Clog Dancing Championships and other special folk themed musical shows also take place during the weekend. Tel 01253 887693;
www.fylde-folk-festival.com
The Traditional Music Day at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket takes place on Saturday 1st September with a line-up of traditional musicians, singers and stepdancers (the biggest annual gathering of stepdancers, featuring many from East Anglia, including a number from Gypsy families) including Reg Hall, James Carty and members of the Linane family, Thomas McCarthy, Patrick Ryan, Andrew & Margaret Watchorn, Bartram, Brookes & Weatherall, Annie Dearman & Steve Harrison. Tel: 01449 771090;
www.eatmt.org.uk
WoodWorks takes place in
Marston Moretaine, Beds (1st & 2nd September) with Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy, Musa M’Boob & Xam Xam,Tyde, Sarah McQuaid, Hemlock Morris and more.
www.marstonvale.org/woodworks
Amongst those on the bill at Big Green Cardigan, Cripps Corner, East Sussex from 7th – 9th September are Circulus Pand Achanak. Tel: 07881 485771;
biggreencardigan.co.uk
The Seend Acoustic Festival (7th & 8th September) has guest apperances from The Yirdbards, Dan Donnelly, Philip Henry & Hannah Martin, Rodney Branigan, Beth Porter & The Availables, Bryony McGinty & Sandy Ball aka Bi-vocals and
more.www.seendacoustic.org
Amongst those appearing at
Harvest Times Blues in Monaghan Town, Ireland from 7th – 9th September 2012 are Mem Shannon, Brooks Williams,
Alan Bell: celebrating 40th anniversary Fylde. Congratulations!
Deadstring Brothers, Lazy Lester, Terry "Harmonica" Bean, Marquise Knox and more.
www.harvestblues.com
Bromyard Folk Festival (7th – 9th September) has guests including Spiers & Boden, David Francey, Vin Garbutt, Tom McConville & David Newey, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman, Cupola, Allan Yn Y Fan, Keith Donnelly, Colvin Quarmby, The Hut People, James Findlay Trio, Lori Watson & Rule Of Three and more. Tel: 01432 340555;
www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk
Swanage Folk Festival (7th – 9th September) has a line-up including The Demon Barber Roadshow, Chris Newman & Máire Ní Chathasaigh, The Churchfitters, The Dylan Project Trio, Lucy Ward, Ric Sanders, Vo Fletcher & Catherine Howe, Colum Sands, Tickled Pink, Tim Laycock, Corncrow, Clive Harvey and more.
www.swanagefolkfestival.co.uk/
St Ives September Festival runs from 8th – 22nd with appearances from Billy Bragg, Kate Rusby, Chris Wood & Steve Tilston, Cara Dillon, Albert Lee & Hogans Heroes, The Peatbog Faeries, The Fisherman’s Friends, Vin Garbutt, The Beat, Dougie MacLean, Juan Martin, The Blockheads, Kan, Tim Edey & Brendan Power, John Renbourn & Wizz Jones, Karen Tweed, Julie Murphy, Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver, Earl Okin, The Bucket Boys, Gwelhellin Goth, Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble, Liane Carroll, The White Top Mountain Band and more. Tel: 01736 366077;
www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk
WemsFest is a new arts festival taking place in the West Sussex village of Westbourne and its neighbouring Hampshire village of Emsworth between 14th and 30th September. Featured musicians include: Simon Mayor & The Mandolinquents, Seckou Keita & Binta Suso, Fidil, Mauricio Venegas & Rachel Pantin, Harriet Earis & Colman Connolly, Estas Tonne, John Meriton, John Otway, Ric Sanders & Vo Fletcher and Johnny Mars & Julian Piper.
wemsfest@btinternet.com
Farida: Barbican Transcender Festival
America Changed Through Music: Harry Smith’s Anthology Of American Folk Music At 60 takes place at UEA London on Middlesex Street on Saturday 15th September. The day celebrates the six-album collection, described as ‘the missing link in rock’s official history’, which inspired the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 60s. As well as considering the Anthology’s impact on music, its ongoing influence on a wide variety of film-makers, poets, writers and artists including Rapunzel & Sedayne, Ewan D. Rodgers, Drew Christie and Prof Geoff Ward who has written extensively about the Anthology and will deliver the keynote speech. www.
americachangedthroughmusic.com
The 2012 United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention takes place at the Winnersh Community Centre, New Road, Wokingham on 15th & 16th September. Loaner books available.
ukshc2012.org/
London Barbican’s
contemporary music autumn season begins in September (17th – 30th) with Transcender Festival, a series of concerts that offers a look at transcendental, devotional, spiritual, hypnotic and psychedelic music, including a rare collaboration between Iranian maestro Hossein Alizadeh and one of Armenia’s greatest musicians, Djivan Gasparyan, a celebration of Iraqi music with Farida Mohammad Ali & The Iraqi Maqam Ensemble, Yair Dalal, Ahmed Mukhtar, the Sun Ra Arkestra led by Marshall Allen and more. 0845 120 7550;
www.barbican.org.uk/transcender
The 21st Otley Black Sheep
Folk Festival runs from 20th – 23rd September with Belshazzars Feast, Kris Drever Trio, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Catherine Craig & Brian Willoughby, Les Barker, Flossie Malavialle, Lucy Ward, Duncan McFarlane Band, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, JigJaw, Robin Garside, Gavin Davenport, Pilgrims Way, Tyde and many more. 01943 464858.
www.otleyfolkfestival.com
The Johnny Keenan Banjo
Festival runs from 20th – 23rd September 2012 in Tullamore, Ireland with street & pub sessions, jams, concerts, masterclass workshops and more. Guests
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