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26th); Urr Valley Hotel, Castle Douglas (28th); Universal Hall, Findhorn (30th); Buckie Festival, The Royal British Legion Hall (31st); The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen (1st Sept); The Heeley Institute, Sheffield (2nd); The Paramount, Penistone (3rd); Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford On Avon (4th); Colwall Village Hall, Malvern (5th); Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square (6th); Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, London N1 (8th).
Jamie Smith’s Mabon
appear at Cambridge Folk Festival (25th July); Shrewsbury Folk Festival (26th Aug); Fylde Folk Festival (31st & 1st Sept); St Ives September Festival (17th Sept).
Tim Edey plays solo at
Towersey Festival (24th Aug) and Tim Edey & Brendan Power play at Wickham Festival (4th Aug); Sidmouth Folkweek (9th); Dartmoor Folk Festival (10th); Fleadh Cheoil, Derry (11th – 17th); Héireann, Ireland (18th); Fylde Folk Festival (31st); Coughton Riverside Folk, Alcester (14th Sept); Bromyard Folk Festival (15th).
Sarah McQuaid appears at Festival At The Edge (19th – 21st July); Sidmouth Folkweek (6th & 7th Aug); Amberley Acoustic Music Club (3rd Sept); Anchor Folk Club, Byfleet (5th); Farnham Maltings (6th); Saltcellar Folk Club, Bristol (7th); London Acoustic Guitar Show (8th); Benderloch Victory Hall (12th); Ceol Cholasa Festival, Isle Of Colonsay (13th – 15th); Plockton Village Hall (16th); Leith Folk Club (17th); The Hearth Arts Centre, Horsley (18th); Black Swan Folk Club, York (19th); The Atkinson, Southport (20th); The Bridge, Topsham (21st); St Mary’s Church, Penzance (22nd); Barley Folk, Liskeard (23rd); Queen’s Theatre Gallery Sessions, Barnstaple (27th); The Watson Institute At Castle Carrock, Carlisle (30th).
Ewan McLennan has summer dates at Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds (27th July); Hove Folk Club, The Poet’s Corner (6th Sept); The Bower House, Maidstone (7th); Red Roof Cafe Gallery, Holmisdale, Glendale, Isle Of Skye (20th); Hootananny, Inverness, Scotland (22nd); Midlothian Arts Festival, Middleton Village Hall (24th); Partick Folk Club, Glasgow (27th).
Andrew & Margaret
Watchburn present An Evening Of Traditonal Music From
London’s Southbank Centre is home to the UK debut of Cirque Alfonse’s Timber! until 31st July (Queen Elizabeth Hall). Three generations of the Quebecois family circus troupe juggle axes, perform daring aerial acrobatics and stunts with lumberjack saws, alongside clog- dancing, tight-rope walking, cooking, vegetable chopping and storytelling. Timber! is set to traditional music, with fiddles, banjos, a jaw harp and rowdy singing as the live accompaniment to the daredevil spectacular. Tel: 0844 847 9944;
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
The World Routes Prom takes place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, as part of Proms 2013. Appearing are Tinariwen, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Gochaq Askarov and Fidan Hajiyeva.
royalalberthall.com
Aldershot’s West End Centre has a fine autumn season including Atongo Zimba, Emily Portman Trio, Maddy Prior in concert with Giles Lewin & Hannah James, ahab, Rachel Sermanni, Robyn Hitchcock and Malick Pathé Sow & Bao Sissoko. Tel: 01252 330040;
www.westendcentre.co.uk
Forthcoming dates at THSH,
Birmingham include Lunasa, Cara Dillon, Bellowhead, Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds and Billy Bragg. Tel: 0121 345 0602;
www.thsh.co.uk
New venture Electric Eden
presents the Emily Portman Trio at St Peters Hall, Kinver on 7th Sept. Tel: 07503 191825
Maddy Prior with Giles Lewin & Hannah James: Aldershot
Northumberland & Beyond At August At St. Mary’s Church, Holy Island (1st Aug); Cheviot Centre, Wooler (8th); Mary’s Church, Low Newton By The Sea (15th); Creighton Hall, Embleton (22nd).
Les Barker has summer dates at Maes D, Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol, Dinbych (6th Aug); Fylde Festival, Fleetwood (31st); Llanwddyn Day Of Folk & Acoustic Music, Community Hall, Abertridwr, Llanwddyn, (7th Sept); Stonehaven Folk Club (20th).
GIGS Snape Proms features Jon
Boden’s retelling of The Ballad of Little Musgrave in a compact and powerful music drama on 11th August. Jon appears with James Findlay, Tim van Eyken, Mary Hampton and Peterborough Male Voice Choir.
www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/jon- boden-–-ballad-little-musgrave
Coming up at The Goose Is
Out! near East Dulwich, London SE22 are Stuart Forester, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Joseph Topping, Ewan McLennan, Tattie Jam and more.
www.thegooseisout.com
Serious promote London gigs
with The Be Good Tanyas at Union Chapel (2nd Sept); Diana Jones and Olivia Chaney, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre (7th); Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen and Uniko at The Barbican (18th).
serious.org.uk
Coming soon to Anvil Arts,
Basingstoke are Kathryn Williamson, Al Stewart, Eric Bibb amongst those featured in next season of events. Tel: 01256 844244;
www.anvilarts.org.uk
Bradford Folk Club
(Bradford-on-Avon) features Rosie Eade, Folklaw, Phil King, Mike Scott, Jacqui Sharp & Andrew Bazeley, The Cleverley Brothers and more. Tel: 01380 870734;
www.boafolkclub.org.uk
Folk At The Royal Oak,
Station Street, Lewes has future dates with Bing Lyle, Long Hill Ramblers, Jez Lowe, Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Jerry Epstein & Ralph Bodington, James Findlay, Debby McClatchy, Len Graham, The Young ‘Uns, Debs Newbold & Laurel Swift, Jody Kruskal, Maggie Boyle & Paul Downes, Rattle On The Stovepipe. Tel: 01273 478124 ;
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic
Coming soon to the
Manchester Academy are Emily Portman Trio, Trembling Bells, Ian Prowse & Amsterdam and more. Tel: 0161 832 1111;
www.manchesteracademy.net
Nest Collective dates over the forthcoming months include dates at various venues in London with Tim Eriksen & Jeff Warner, Stephanie Hladowski & C Joynes, Alua Nascimento &
These recently in: Amazing
Blondel Songs For Faithful Admirers (Secret Records); Alexey Arkhipovskiy The Road Home (own label); Chris Berry King Of Me (Kanaba System Krush); Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland Angel In Anguish (Fingertips); The Bombay Royale You Me Bullets Love (Hopestreet); Roy Bookbinder The Good Book (Peg Leg); Briga Turbo Folk Stories
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: World Routes Prom @ Albert Hall
Alba Cabral, Mama Rosin, Three Cane Whale. For full details of dates and venues, see
thenestcollective.co.uk
Nettlebed Folk Song Club has future appearances with Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, The Outside Track, Chris Leslie (from Fairport), The Unwanted Trio (incl Cathy Jordan from Dervish), Faustus and Jackie Oates’s Lullabies.
www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk
Comin soon to The Castle,
Wellingborough are Lunasa, Peatbog Faeries, Show Of Hands with Miranda Sykes, O’Hooley & Tidow and The Will Pound Band. Tel: 01933 270007;
www.thecastle.org.uk
New venue Arts4Every1 in
Aylesbury sees future dates with Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick, Sam Carter, Stackridge and more. Tel: 01494 445517;
www.arts4every1.com
The Village Pump Folk Club in
Trowbridge has futures dates with No Fixed Abode, Hungrytown, Senile
Delinquents, Damian Clarke, Lost Horizons and Jim Page. Tel: 01225 707346;
www.villagepump.org.uk
The Cellar Upstairs at the
Exmouth Arms, London NW1 has future dates with: Leon Rosselson, Niamh Parsons & Graham Dunne, Maz ‘Connor, Frankie Armstrong, Alice Herrard & Beverly Smith, Roy Bailey, Chris Miles and more.
www.cellarupstairs.org.uk
The Atkinson in Southport has autumn dates with Gigspanner, Emily Portman Trio, Vin Garbutt and Andy Cutting. Tel: 0151 934 2130;
www.theatkinson.co.uk
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