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(14th); Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow (21st); Liverpool Empire (22nd); Newcastle City Hall (24th); Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (25th); Royal Albert Hall, London (27th).
Martin Simpson also plays at Stourbridge Folk Club (21st May); Royal Spa Centre,
Leamington Spa (24th); The David Hall, South Petherton (25th); Old Queens Head, London, N1 (28th); Calderdale Folk Concerts, The Works, Sowerby Bridge (12th Jun); Connaught Theatre Union Place, Worthing (19th).
Terakaft appear at Ruby Lounge, Manchester (28th May); Electrowerkz, London (29th); Hay On Wye Festival (31st); Glastonbury (28th June).
Etran Finatawa play at
Turner Sims, Southampton (7th Jun); Artsreach, Dorchester (8th); Celebrating Sanctuary @ The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (9th); Momo Kemia Bar, London W1 (10th); The Joe Cornish Gallery, Register House, Zetland Street, Northallerton (11th); The Coliseum, Victoria Place, Whitby (12th); The Ironworks, Oswestry (13th); The Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge (14th); Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds (15th); Celebrating Sanctuary, London (16th).
Celtic Fiddle Festival – with Christian Lemaître, André Brunet, Kevin Burke and Nicholas Quéméner – comes to Gaiety Theatre, Ayr (29th May); Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline (30th); Otley Courthouse (31st); The Arts Centre, Edgehill (1st Jun); National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York (3rd); The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes (4th); St George’s Theatre, King’s St, Great Yarmouth (5th); The Subscription Room, Kendrick St, Town Centre, Stroud, Gloucester (9th); G Live, London Rd, Guildford, Surrey (10th); Talking Heads, Southampton (11th); Stamford Arts Centre (12th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (14th); The Courtyard, Hereford (15th); Buxton Opera House (16th).
Continuing the theme, Blazin’ Fiddles bring the flavours of the Highlands and Islands to Harrogate Theatre (14th June); The Met, Bury (15th); The Guildhall, Grantham (18th); Key Arts Centre, Peterborough (20th); Phoenix, Exeter (21st); Cornerstone, Didcot (23rd);
Blazin’ Fiddles
Stables, Milton Keynes (26th); The Brewery, Faversham (27th); Assembly Rooms, Ludlow (28th); The Brewery, Kendal (29th).
Fairport Convention
Acoustic comes to Mylor Sessons, Mylor, (20th); David Hall Arts Centre, South Petherton, (22nd); Blackfriars Theatre, Boston, (23rd); The Town Hall, Masham, (24th); St Marys Church, Chipping Norton, (25th); The Arts Centre, Swindon, (28th); The Atkinson, Southport, (30th); The Met, Bury, (31st); Hailsham Pavilion (1st Jun); The Brook, Southampton (2nd); Didcot, Cornerstone Arts Centre (3rd); The Boileroom, Guildford (4th); The Guild Hall, Gloucester (5th); Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury (6th); The Regal, Tenbury Wells, (8th); Court Theatre, Tring (9th).
Lo’Jo play UK dates at Band
on the Wall, Manchester (28th May); Richmix, London (29th); The Ropetackle, Shoreham on Sea (30th); Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan (31st); Jarwood Dance House, Ipswich (2nd Jun).
Kieran Goss plays at Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (19th May); The Cellars At Eastney, Portsmouth (21st); Farnham Maltings (24th); Boughton Village Hall, Northampton (25th); Hitchin Folk Club (26th); Dartford Folk Club (28th); Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple (29th); The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury (31st); Elloughton Village Hall (1st June); The Old Bakery, Lincoln (2nd); Chichester Inn (5th); The Blue Walnut, Torquay (6th); The David Hall, South Petherton (7th); Hockworthy Village Hall (8th).
Ruth Theodore’s new CD Dear Lamp Love Moth is launched at St. Pancras Old Church, London on 10th June. She’s at Discovery Centre, Winchester (28th).
Habadekuk have dates at Otley Courthouse (6th June); Talking Heads, Southampton (9th); The Sage, Gateshead (10th); The Hawth Theatre, Crawley (12th); The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge (15th); Prema Arts Centre, Uley Nr Dursley (16th).
Lau have Irish dates in June:
Whelan’s Live, Dublin (1st); Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey, Co. Donegal (2nd); Roisin Dubh, Galway (3rd); Cyprus Avenue, Cork (4th); Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Mórshráid Shéamais, Derry (6th); The Black Box, Belfast (7th);
Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow (8th); Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick (9th) plus dates at Beverley Folk Festival (22nd); Tolbooth Stirling, Jail Wynd, Stirling (27th); The Catstrand High Street, New Galloway, Castle Douglas (28th).
Shooglenifty come to Mareel, North Ness, Lerwick, Shetland (1st June); Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (8th); Grassington Festival (22nd); Aberystwyth Arts Centre (29th).
Les Barker is set to perform “Monologues, Poems & Parodies at the Following Culture Emporia”: Chester Folk Festival (26th May); Steamboat Tavern, Ipswich (9th Jun); Warrington Folk Club (16th).
The dynamic Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys from Canada come to The Library Theatre, Sheffield (7th June); Gateshead Old Town Hall (8th); Gate To Southwell Festival (9th); Forest Folk, Wickham, Hampshire (10th); Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington, Oxfordshire (12th); Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan (13th); The Pound, Corsham (14th); Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival (16th); Nettlebed Village Club, Nr. Henley-on-Thames (17th); Archway Theatre, Horley (18th); Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club (19th); Rodewald Suite, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (20th); Otley Courthouse (21st); Saltburn Theatre (22nd); Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset (28th).
Martin Carthy plays at House Concert, Edinburgh (22nd May); The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, (23rd); Portsoy Festival (24th – 26th May); Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham (30th May);
Bridgwater Arts Centre (31st May); St Mary’s Church, Penzance (1st Jun); Stockton Folk Club, Cleveland (3rd); The Foundling Museum, London WC1 (7th); The Bower House Concert (8th); Midway Folk Club, Stockport (10th); Kettering House Concert (15th); Hazelwood House, Kingsbridge (29th).
Breabach will tour Scotland throughout June this year, visiting West End Festival, Oran Mor, Glasgow (6th); Queen's Hall, Edinburgh (7th); Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (12th); An Lanntair, Stornoway, Lewis (13th); Aros, Portree, Skye (14th); Isle of Eigg
Festival (15th); Unicorn, Dundee (18th); Logie Durno Hall, Logie Durno, Aberdeenshire (19th); Carrbridge Village Hall,
Carrbridge, Highlands (20th); Solas Festival, Perthshire (22nd)
Mambo Jambo, acoustic roots duo, appear at Hallbankgate Village Hall, Cumbria (24th May); Kirknewton Village Hall, Northumberland (25th ); Crooked Billet, Henley-on-Thames, (5th ); The Beehive, Swindon (6th June); The Cat Café, Wincanton Somerset (7th); The Couthouse, Thirsk, North Yorkshire (21st); Driftwood Rock & Roots Club, Watermark Café, Scarborough (28th).
Jamie Smith’s Mabon play at Fire In The Mountain Cnwch- coch, Aberystwyth, Dyfed (2nd Jun); Grayshott Folk Club (7th); Wirral Folk on the Coast (8th).
Bob Fox’s Just An Old
Warhorse tour continues on the folk club circuit with visits to: BAMfest, Bedale (1st Jun); Glenfarg Folk Club (3rd); Penicuik Folk Club (4th); Dunfermline Folk Club (5th); A’ the Airts, Sanquar (8th); Cottingham Live, Cottingham (12th); Topic Folk Club, Bradford (13th); Deal Folk Club (14th); Sale Folk Club (15th); Readifolk, Reading (16th); Herga Folk Club, Pinner (17th); Great Knight Folk Club, Northampton (18th); Faversham Folk Club (19th); The Black Swan, Peasholme Green (20th); Cambridge Folk Club (21st); Folk in the Cellar, Lincoln (22nd); Grimsby Folk Club (23rd); Croydon Folksong Club (24th); Amberley Acoustic Music Club, Amberley (25th); Banbury Folk Club, Banbury (26th); Sunray Folk Club, Broadmayne (27th); Watford Folk Club, Watford (28th); Lewes Saturday Folk Club (29th); The Cabbage Patch, Twickenham (30th).
The Demon Barbers play at Hitchin Folk Club, The Sun Hotel (9th Jun); John Peel Centre For Creative Arts, Stowmarket (12th); Forest Arts Centre, New Milton (14th); Junction, Goole (15th); Sheffield Central Library Theatre (16th); Forest Folk, North Boarhunt Social Club, Wickham (17th).
Tim Edey plays solo at Hebden Bridge Trades Club (20th June); Carlisle Folk & Blues Club (21st) and with Brendan Power at Chester Folk Festival (25th May); Folkworks Hexham Northumberland Gathering (26th); St Davids Hall, Cardiff (4th Jun);
Lo’Jo
Photo: Judith Burrows
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