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include: Suzy Bogguss, Paul Brady, Blue Highway, Don Rigsby & Charlie Sizemore, George Harper, Mundy, Gerry ‘Banjo’ O’Connor, Beoga, Electric Ceili, We Banjo 3 (feat. Enda Scahill), Niall Toner, Chris Meehan & His Redneck Friends, Barcelona Bluegrass Band and more. Tel: +353 87 281 7825; www.johnnykeenan.com


Helmsley Folk Weekend relaunches this September from 28th – 30th with appearances from The Outside Track, The Churchfitters, The New Rope String Band, Jez Lowe, Dana and Susan Robinson, Peter Bond, Mambo Jambo, Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher and more. Tel: 01439 771700; www.helmlseyfolkweekend.co.uk


Ahead, Whitby Musicport


(5th – 7th October) is back in its orginal home at the Whitby Pavilion with a line-up including Dub Colossus Dub Band, Reem Kelani, Sona Jobarteh Band, The Moulettes, The Lani Singers, Calaita, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Celtarabia, Soznak, The Hut People, O’Hooley & Tidow, Batch Gueye, Groanbox Boys and more to be announced. www.musicportfestival.com


TOURS Martin Carthy & Dave


Swarbrick have a major autumn tour with dates at Broadstairs Folk Week (13th Aug); WoodWorks, Bedford (2nd Sept); Nettlebed Folk Club (3rd); The Half Moon, Putney (4th); Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel (6th); Subscription Rooms, Stroud (7th); Stables, Wavendon (11th); Shaftesbury Arts Centre (12th); Middlesbrough Town (14th); Milngavie Folk Club, The Fraser Centre (15th); Swindon Arts Centre (18th); The Haymarket, Basingstoke (19th); Huntingdon Hall, Worcester (20th); Pontardawe Arts Centre (22nd); Theatre By The Lake, Keswick (23rd); National Centre For Early Music, York (25th); St Andrew’s Church, Richmond, North Grinton (28th); The Waterside Arts, Sale (29th); Hebden Bridge, The Trades Club (30th). See next month for October dates.


Bruce Cockburn tours The revitalised six-piece Brass


Monkey – Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Martin Brinsford, Roger Williams, and the two trumpeters Paul Archibald and Shane Brennan – are continuing their thirtieth birthday celebrations with dates at Sidmouth Folk Festival (Aug 7th) and Towersey Folk Festival (25th). Meanwhile, Martin Carthy has solo dates at The Cut Above Folk & Boat Festival, Stockport (21st July); Exhibition Road Show, Kensington & Chelsea, London (29th); with Eliza Carthy at Sidmouth Folk Week (8th Aug); Greenwich Summer Festival, Old Royal Naval College (11th); Brewtown Folk Club, Burton On Trent (31st).


Bruce Cockburn plays at Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham (24th & 25th); The Musician, Leicester (26th); Button Factory, Dublin (28th); MAC, Belfast (29th); The Stables, Wavendon (31st); The Junction, Cambridge (1st Sept); Bush Hall, London (2nd); ARC, Stockton-on-Tees (3rd); The Robin 2, Bilston (5th); Selby Town Hall (6th); The Queens Hall, Edinburgh (7th).


Peter Rowan flies high at Green Note, London (29th Aug); Didmarton Bluegrass Festival (1st Sept); Whelan’s, Dublin (3rd); Kilworth Arts Centre (4th); Leap Castle Roscrea Co Tipperary (5th); Crane Bar, Galway (6th).


Show Of Hands with Miranda Sykes play at Sidmouth Folk Week (3rd Aug); Wickham Festival (4th); Beautiful Days (18th); Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre, the Royal Albert Hall Reprise Show with Urban Soul Orchestra and Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin (22nd); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (25th); Rhythm Festival (26th); and duo shows at Cleethorpes Rocks (1st Sept); Fylde Folk Festival (2nd).


Alasdair Roberts appears at Greystones, Sheffield (7th Aug); Sidmouth Folk Week (8th); Taylor John’s House Coventry (9th); The Forge At The Anvil, Basingstoke (15th); The Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (16th); Chapter Arts, Cardiff (22nd); Old Queens Head, London N1 (26th). With Rafe Fitzpatrick & Stevie Jones, he appears at: Tolbooth Stirling (27th); Bogbain Farm, Inverness (29th); Woodend Barn, Burn O’ Bennie, Banchory (30th).


Abigail Washburn and Kai


Welch play at Towersey Folk Festival (24th Aug); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (25th & 26th); Greenbelt, Cheltenham (27th); Greystones, Sheffield (29th); Moseley Folk Festival (31st); End Of The Road Festival (1st Sept).


Black Umfolosi play at


Pavilion Theatre, Promenade, Rhyl (18th July); Theatr Brycheiniog, Canal Wharf, Brecon (19th); Chipping Norton Theatre (20th); Rock Up and Sing, Rock Up Studio, Harrogate (22nd); Craignish Arts Festival, Marquee at the Gallery of Lorne, Ardfern (23rd); Eden Court, Inverness (24th); Sidmouth Folk Week (4th Aug); Nandita Day, Embercombe, Higher Ashton, Exeter (5th).


Julie Murphy with Ceri


Owen Jones come to Courtyard Theatre, Hereford (13th Sept); St Ives Festival (17th); Halsway Manor Somerset (19th); Valley Folk Club, Pontardawe with Fernhill (21st); Smallworld Theatre, Cardigan with Fernhill, (23rd).


Frank Yamma plays UK dates


at BT River of Music, Oceania Stage, London (21st & 22nd Jul); Green Note, London (23rd); BBC Radio 3 Stage, Womad, Charlton Park (29th); Sidmouth Folk Week (4th Aug).


Bella Hardy appears at Secret


Garden Party, Abbots Ripton (22nd July); Wilderness Festival, The Folk Guild Stage, Cornbury Park, (12th Aug); The Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, (30th).


Bellowhead have dates at Camp Bestival, Dorset (27th Jul); Dranouter Festival (3rd Aug); Wickham Festival (4th); Cropredy Festival (9th); Huntenpop, Netherlands (11th); Beautiful Days Festival (18th); Towersey Festival (24th); Folkeast Festival, Suffolk (25th); Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham (27th); Bestival, Isle Of Wight (9th Sept).


Chris Wood has dates at Folk By The Oak, Hatfield (22nd July); Sidmouth Folk Week (5th Aug); Ham Folk Festival, Belgium (11th); Folkwoods Festival, Eindhoven (12th); Broadstairs Folk Week (15th); Beautiful Days Escot Park (17th); St Ives September (9th Sept); The Musician, Leicester (13th); Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London (14th); and then, as a special guest of Joan Armatrading, at Millennium Forum, Newmarket Street, Derry


The Emily Portman Trio


(21st); Vicar Street, Dublin, Ireland (22nd); The Grand Opera, Belfast (23rd); Inec, Killarney (25th); University Concert Hall, Castletroy, Limerick (26th); Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (28th & 29th); Baths Hall, Scunthorpe (30th).


Juno-winning Nova Scotian


banjo songster Old Man Luedecke has some summer dates in the UK at the Green Note, London NW1 (2nd Aug); The Palmeira, Brighton (3rd); Summer Hoedown Grange Gardens, Lewes (4th); Wickham Festival (5th); Sidmouth Folk Week (6th – 8th); The Bicycle Shop, Norwich (14th); Snape Maltings Concert, Nr. Saxmundham (15th); The Greystones, Sheffield (16th); Fallen Angels Club, The Slate Bar, Glasgow (17th); Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (23rd); Purbeck Folk Festival, Langton Matravers, Nr. Swanage (24th); Towersey Village Festival (25th & 26th); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (27th).


Duotone appear at Westival,


West End Centre, Aldershot (21st July); Secret Garden Party, Abbots Ripton (22nd); The Stables Sessions, Milton Keynes International Festival, Campbell Park (28th); Colston Hall 2, Bristol (21st Sept); Little Big Gig Festival, Henry’s Campsite, The Lizard (23rd); Babington House, Babington, Near Frome (25th); The Stables-Stage 2, Wavendon (26th); St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London (27th); The Brunswick, Hove (28th); Gillingham Pier (29th); The Bicycle Shop, Norwich (30th).


Lau play at Cambridge Folk Festival (28th & 29th July); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (24th Aug); Folk East, Somerleyton Hall (25th); Rhythm Folk Festival, The Mansion House, Biggleswade (26th); Shambala Festival, Kelmarsh Hall, Northampton (26th); Kervignac, France (28th); Cafe Concert, Toucouleur, Tregastel, France (29th).


The Emily Portman Trio


have a Hatchling album launch at The Slaughtered Lamb, London EC1 (18th July), then dates at Fylde Folk Festival (1st Sept); Moseley Folk Festival (2nd); Norwich Arts Centre (6th); Kings Place, London (14th); Acoustica Exeter (15th); Plough Arts Centre, Torrington (16th); The Grain Barge, Bristol (19th); Rodewald Suite, Liverpool (20th); Etal Village Hall (22nd); Private Gig Edinburgh


Photo: Ian Anderson


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