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(21st); Under The Edge Arts, Wotton-under-Edge (22nd); Acoustic Folkus, Shrewsbury (26th); Ouseburn Farm, Newcastle- Under-Lyme (28th); White Horse Live, Stonesfield (2nd Apr); Hales Club, Market Drayton (4th); and with Alistair Anderson at Rivelin Folk Club, Sheffield (9th); Black Swan Folk Club, York (10th).
Dead Belgian, featuring new singer and guitarist Brooke Sharkey, play at Mollington Village Hall, Cheshire (11th Apr); Bury Met (12th); The Kazimier, Liverpool (25th); Ye Olde Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, London E17 (26th).
Jim Causley plays solo at Folk At The Barlow, Bolton (21st Mar); The Goose Is Out!, Nunhead, London (28th); The Fleece Hotel, Boxford (29th); New Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth (30th); Chesham Folk Club, The White Hill Centre (7th Apr); South Brent Folk, South Brent Villlage Hall, Station Approach, South Brent (26th) and with Lukas Drinkwater at Wenlock Poetry , The Edge Arts Centre Studio (27th).
Ten of Wales’ traditional singers and musicians join together for the Song Chain/Cylch Canu tour. Robert Evans, Dylan Folwer, Gwenan Gibbard, Gwyneth Glyn, Delyth jenkins, Beth Williams-Jones, Stephen Rees, Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Patrick Rimes and Jamie Smith head to St David’s Hall, Cardiff (1st Apr); Pontardawe Arts Centre (2nd); Theatr Mwldan (3rd); Galeri, Caernarfon (4th); Neuadd Dwyfor (5th); Canolfan Ulchedre, Holyhead (6th); Theatr
Brycheiniog (10th); Theatr Hafren (11th); SPAN @ Queen’s Hall, Narberth (12th).
James Findlay, Bella Hardy,
Brian Peters and Lucy Ward will be performing as The Liberty to Choose, featuring material from The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs at Nettlebed Folk Club (24th Mar) and the Silver Street Sessions, Wiveliscombe (25th).
Blackbeard’s Tea Party have dates at The Duchess,York (29th Mar); Barnsley Acoustic Roots Day, Horizon Theatre, Dodworth Rd, Barnsley (30th); Hare & Hounds, 106 High St, Birmingham (3rd Apr); The Greystones, Greystones Rd, Sheffield (4th); West End Centre, 48 Queens Rd, Aldershot, Hampshire (5th); The Edge Arts Centre, Farley Road, Much
The Liberty To Choose
Wenlock (6th); Fruit, Humber St, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire (9th); Rake and Pikel, Chester Rd, Huntington, Chester (12th); Folk Weekend, George St, Oxford, Oxford (25th & 26th).
www.blackbeardsteaparty.com
CoCo & The Butterfields appear at Swindon Arts Centre (24th Apr); Surya, Pentonville Road, London (25th); Thekla, The Grove, East Mud Dock, Bristol (26th); St Bartholomews, Coffinswell, Newton Abbot (27th); Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way (28th).
Mànran have dates at Settle
Victoria Hall (27th Mar); Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (28th); Stamford Arts Centre (29th); The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon (1st Apr); Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (2nd); South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, Bracknell (3rd); Tyneside Irish Centre, Gallowgate, Newcastle (4th).
GIGS
London’s Southbank Centre has April dates with Tanya Tagaq In Concert with Nanook of the North (Purcell Room, 4th Apr); Melingo (Purcell Room, 6th); Christy Moore (Royal Festival Hall, 17th & 18th). Tel: 0844 875 0073;
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Coming soon to Colston Hall,
Bristol are Kathryn Williams, Francois & The Atlas
Mountains, Mokoomba, Bridie Jackson and The Arbour, Steve Forbert and Suzy Bogguss. 0844 887 1500;
www.colstonhall.org
London’s Barbican Centre events coming up include Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba at The Union Chapel on 20th March; and at the Centre itself, Atomic Bomb – Who is William Onyeabor? with very special guests celebrating the mystery and infectious genius of Nigeria’s mystery electro-funkster, playing the music live for the first time on 1st April, and an evening of two Keitas, Salif Keita & Seckou Keita on 8th April.
www.barbican.org.uk
Coming up at The Goose Is
Out!, Nunhead, London SE15 are Jim Causley, Cath & Phil Tyler, The Copper Family, Suntrap,
Luke Jackson, Dan Whitehouse, and Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin.
www.thegooseisout.com
Anvil Arts in Basingstoke have future dates with Mamana Barka, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Eliza Gilkyson, Amanda Shires and Rita
Hosking.Tel: 01256 844244; www/
anvilarts.org.uk
World renowned Iranian
tombak and daf player Mohammad Reza Mortazavi performs in an exclusive concert and workshop at The Performance Centre, The Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth University on Saturday 26 April. For further information visit:
www.theperformancecentre.org
Nettlebed Village Club, High
St, Nr. Henley on Thames, Oxon Craobh Rua, The Liberty To Choose with Bella Hardy, Lucy Ward, James Findlay & Brian Peters, Megan Henwood – Album Launch, Feast of Fiddles, Maddy Prior, Giles Lewin & Hannah James, Paul Downes & Phil Beer. 01628 636620;
nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk
Jamboree, Cable Street,
London E1 plays host to some regular weekly events including Red Sky At Night with the Jamboree Collective, East London’s most talented rootsy buskers on Mondays, Alastair Caplin’s Celtic Session on Tuesdays, The French Folk dance society with Le Bal Virevolte on Sundays and Wednesday evening Tapiserie Nights weaving together a tapestry of musical colours from traditional music of the Romani people, to Eastern European and Klezmer music, as well as music of the Mediterranean including imminent appearances from Minimal Klezmer, Les Trois Coups, Balothizer, Don Kipper and
more.Tel: 0207 7915659;
www.jamboreevenue.co.uk
On April 5th, Haddenham ceilidhs feature Liam Robinson calling for Steam Chicken with a dance display from Taeppa’s Tump and, in concert, Paul Hutchinson & Karen Wimhurst.
Forthcoming Spyboy
Promotions in East Sussex include: Fay Hield & The Hurricane Party and Fairport Convention. Tel: . 01323 841414;
www.spyboy.co.uk
Melingo – South Bank A new upstairs hall at
Bristol’s The Trinity Centre has a range of folk acts lined up to perform, presented in association with Jelli Records including: Megson, Darren Hodge, Tim Edey, Maxi Rai, Krista Detor and Elles Bailey.
www.3ca.org.uk
Coming soon to the Green
Note, Parkway, London NW1 are: Simo Lagnawi, Manière des Bohémiens, The Dan Walsh Trio, The Once, Henry Priestman, Anne Janelle, The Will Pound Band, Luke Concannon, Namvula, Tish Hinojosa & Anny Celsi, Curtis Eller’s American Circus, Tim Edey, Stompin’ Dave, Dubl Handi, Robin Williamson, The Sweet Lowdown, The Toy Hearts, Trio Manouche, Eric Andersen & Ben Reel, Diabel Cissokho, The Cajun Dawgs, Birds of Chicago and more.
www.GreenNote.co.uk
Ashkeys Music have
forthcoming Bristol dates with artists including: Gilmore & Roberts, Bridie Jackson & The Arbour, Bright Season and Russian Orthodox vocal ensemble Lyra.
www.ashkeysmusic.com
The Garret Sessions features intimate monthly events on a Wednesday with a pre-concert dinner menu and sessions with some fine folk, roots and acoustic musicians and singer songwriters touring the UK, at The Queens Head pub in Fyfield, Essex. Forthcoming events include: Tish Hinojosa & Anny Celsi, Cahalen Morrison & Eli West, Kieran Goss and The Henry Girls.
www.thequeensheadfyfield.co.uk/ The-Garret-Sessions
St George’s Headstone, Pinner
View, Harrow plays host to a St. George’s Day Concert with Eliza Carthy & Saul Rose on 27th April. Tel: 0208 863 8937;
www.stgeorgeheadstone.org.uk
Kitchen Garden Cafe,
Birmingham has forthcoming events from Martha Tilston & The Scientists, The Coal Porters, Curtis Eller’s American Circus, Emily Macguire, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, The Tannahill Weavers, Wooden Horse, Gilmore & Roberts, Roddy Woomble, The Sweet Lowdown, Birds of Chicago and more. Tel: 0121 443 4725;
www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Derek Schofield
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