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line-up so far includes Brittany Haas, Hassan Eraji, Eliza Carthy, Jon Boden, Emma Sweeney, Miranda Rutter and more. Also drawing on the serious wealth of fiddle talent in Yorkshire and surrounds we have, among others, Scandinavian workshops from Rowan Rheingans, presentations on local fiddle traditions and history from Paul Davenport, international tunes and and exploration of the emotional fiddle in the Klezmer tradition from Josie Wexler, and an experiment in English repertoire and community featuring Bryony Griffith.
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TOURS
August and September sees Show Of Hands with Miranda Sykes appearing at Wickham Festival (3rd Aug); Sidmouth FolkWeek (4th); Towersey Festival (24th); Purbeck Folk Festival (25th); New Forest Folk Festival (31st); Bromyard Folk Festival (13th Sep); The Exchange, Sturminster Newton (14th); St Ives September Festival, St Ives, Cornwall (21st); Southdowns Folk Festival, Bognor Regis (22nd).
Le Vent Du Nord continue their UK tour with dates at New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under- Lyme (23rd July); The Sage, Gateshead (24th); Borough Theatre Town Hall, Abergavenny (25th); WOMAD, Malmesbury (26th); Cambridge Folk Festival (27th & 28th); Warwick Folk Festival (28th); The Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare (30th); The Hawth, Crawley, West Sussex (1st Aug); Sidmouth FolkWeek (2nd); Wickham Festival (3rd); Wombwell Festival, South Yorkshire (4th).
Lunasa play at Cropredy Festival (9th Aug); Rye Arts Festival Rye College, The Grove (21st Sept); Crawley The Hawth (22nd); Cheese And Grain, Frome (23rd); The Castle, Wellingborough (24th); Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square (25th); Leicester Grammar School, London Rd (27th); The Citadel, Waterloo Street, St Helens (28th); New Vic Theatre, Utruria Rd, Newcastle Under Lyme (30th).
Martin Simpson
Tim Eriksen plays solo dates at The Guild Hall, York (26th July); The Three Horseshoes, Towersey (28th); St Bonaventures, Bristol (29th); The Old Queen’s Head, London (31st); Bower House Concert, Maidstone (1st Aug); Sidmouth Folkweek (7th); Red Room House Concert, Cookstown (Northern Ireland) (13th). Tim & Eliza Carthy appear as a duo at Sidmouth Folk Week On 7th Aug.
Andy Cutting plays at The Poppy Folk Club, Nottingham (21st July); Faversham Folk Club (25th); Corduroy Folk Club The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport (27th); Newhampton Folk Club (28th); Walthamstow Folk Club (29th).
Bella Hardy & The
Midnight Watch appear at Cambridge Folk Festival (27th July); Sidmouth Folkweek (7th Aug); The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (15th); New Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth (17th); Colston Hall 2, Bristol (22nd).
Peatbog Faeries play at Speyfest (27th July); PJ Malloys, Dunfermline (28th); Staveley Village Hall, Abbey Square, Cumbria (3rd Aug); Sidmouth FolkWeek (5th); Ropetackle Centre, Shoreham (8th); Artrix, Bromsgrove (9th); Fairport’s Cropredy Convention (10th).
Martin Carthy & Dave
Swarbrick embark on their autumn tour, kicking off in the summer with Cambridge Folk Festival (28th July); Lyme Folk Weekend (1st Sept); Guildhall, Leicester (5th); The Theatre, Chipping Norton (6th);
Arts4every1, High Wycombe (7th); The Courtyard Arts Centre, Hereford (13th); Diss Corn Hall (15th); The Junction, Cambridge (16th); Tyneside Irish Centre, Gallowgate, Newcastle Upon Tyne (19th); Wiltshire Music Centre Ashley Rd, Bradford On Avon (21st); Colchester Folk Club, Colchester Arts Centre (23rd); Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham (25th); Folk At The Royal Oak, Lewes (26th); The Goose Is Out!, The Crown & Greyhound, Dulwich Village, London (27th). To be continued in October.
Martin Simpson appears solo at Folk By The Oak, Hatfield House (21st July); The Greys, Brighton (22nd); Cambridge Folk Festival (27th & 28th); Towersey Festival (24th Aug); Otterton Mill, Otterton, Nr Budleigh, Salterton
(29th); Artrix, Bromsgrove (5th Sept); Forest Arts Centre, New Milton (6th); Music By The Lake, The Old Rectory, Church End, Adstock (7th); London Acoustic Guitar Show, Olympia Conference Centre, Kensington, London (8th); St Davids Hall, Cardiff (9th); Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham (12th); Victory Hall, South Zeal, Okehampton (13th); Calstock Arts The Old Chapel, Calstock (14th); Kings Place, London N1 (15th). With Andy Cutting, he appears at Music On The Marr, The Marr, Castle Carrock, Brampton, Cumbria (20th July). With Martin Taylor, he plays at Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal (28th Sept); The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes (29th); The Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge (30th).
Lisa Knapp launches a new album of original songs in September on Navigator Records. She has dates at Folk East Somerleyton Hall & Gardens, Lovingland, Suffolk (25th Aug); Kings Place, London (14th Sept); Farnham Maltings (18th); The Junction Clifton Way, Cambridge (23rd); The Glee Club, Nottingham (28th).
Emily Portman Trio tour this autumn with Sept dates at Lyme Folk Weekend (1st Sept); The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport (5th); Manchester Academy (6th); St Peters Hall, Vicarage Drive, Kinver (7th); Komedia Brighton (12th); Forest Arts Centre, New Milton (13th); The Dog, Coventry (19th); Ashcroft Arts Centre Osborn Road, Fareham (20th); Bridgwater Arts Centre (21st); West End Centre, Aldershot (26th); Kings Place, London (27th).
Supporting her new album
Single Flame, Lucy Ward has Sept tour dates at Spalding Folk Ckub (4th Sept); The David Hall, South Petherton (13th); South Hill Park, Bracknell (14th); Hitchin Folk Club (15th); Biddulph Up In Arms (18th); New Greenham Arts, Newbury (20th); Folk Stock Festival, Elstree (21st);
Southdowns Folk festival (22nd); The Globe, Glossop (26th); Friary Folk & Roots, Gloucester (28th).
Shooglenifty play ay
Lomond Folk Festival (28th July); Wickham Festival (2nd Aug); Shrewsbury Farmer Phil’s Festival, Near Gatten Farm, Ralinghope (10th); Mawdesley Methusala Festival, Cliffs Farm, Wood Lane,
Alasdair Roberts
Emily Portman
Lancs (24th); Bromsgrove Artrix (25th); Summer Isles Festival Coigach Community Hall, Achtilibuie, by Ullapool (31st).
Lau appear at Larmer Tree Festival (29th July); Folk By The Oak, Hatfield, Hertfordshire (21st); Wickham Festival (2nd Aug); Folk At The Hall, Trelawnyd Memorial Hall, Nr Rhyl (3rd); Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth (16th); Green Man Festival, Glanusk Park, Usk Valley (18th).
Alasdair Roberts has solo
dates Live At The Star, The Admiral Bar, Glasgow (13th Aug); The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (24th). He appears with special guests David McGuinness, Olivia Chaney & Amble Skuse at Kings Place, London (13th Sept); and with David McGuiness at Trafalgar Arches, Brighton (14th).
Mawkin play at Wilderness Festival, Cornbury Park, Charlbury (9th Aug); Lyme Folk Weekend (30th); Walthamstow Folk Club (22nd Sept); Fleece Hotel, Broad Street, Boxford (28th).
The second phase of the
Spooky Men’s Chorale UK tour starts in August: The Apex Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds (1st Aug); Norwich Playhouse (2nd); St Mary-In-The-Castle, Hastings (3rd); Wickham Festival (4th); Sidmouth Folkweek Sidmouth, Devon (5th – 8th); Ludlow Assembly Rooms (17th); Gala Theatre, Durham (18th); Queen Elizabeth School, Hexham (19th); Acoustic Music Centre, St. Brides, Edinburgh (20th); Tønder Festival (22nd – 24th); Towersey Festival (25th &
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Elly Lucas
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