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Christy Moore has tour dates at Edinburgh Festival Theatre (10th Apr); Glasgow Barrowlands (11th); Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (13th); Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (15th); London Royal Festival Hall (17th & 18th).
Bellowhead mark their 10th anniversary with two special shows at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (19th April) and the Royal Albert Hall, London (20th) – their only non-festival shows in Britain before their autumn tour in November.
Mokoomba play at Sage Gateshead (30th Mar); Rich Mix, London (1st Apr); Junction, Cambridge (3rd); Lighthouse, Poole (4th); Wiltshire Music Centre, Badford-on-Avon (5th); Colston Hall, Bristol (6th); Pontardawe Arts Centre (8th); mac, Birmingham (9th); NCEM, York (10th); The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds (11th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (12th); Brighton Dome (13th).
mokoomba.com
Patsy Reid plays at WRI Hall, Comrie (22nd Mar); Perth Concert Hall (8th Apr); Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles (10th Apr); An Tobar, Mull (11th); Tayvallich Village Hall (12th); Star Folk Club, Glasgow (15th); Montrose Folk Club (18th); Nailsea Folk Club (25th); Broad Hinton Village Hall, Wiltshire (26th); The Hive, Shrewsbury (27th); The Big Church, Silverton, Devon featuring Steve Knightley (29th); Cecil Sharp House, London (30th).
Julie Fowlis has April dates
at The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester (8th Apr); Kings Place. Hall One. 90 York Way, London N1 (9th); Sheffield City Hall (Memorial Hall), Barkers Pool (10th); The Brewery Arts Centre, Highgate, Kendal (11th).
www.juliefowlis.com
Canada’s The Sweet
Lowdown (as featured on fRoots 44) play at The Cock Inn, Sarratt (16th April); Green Note, London (17th); Ring O’ Bells, Chagford (18th); Calstock Arts (19th); The Bell, Bath (lunchtime 20th); The Kingsdown Wine Vaults, Bristol (20th); Square & Compass, Swanage (21st); Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (22nd); The Barn At The Three Horseshoes, Towersey (23rd); The Railway, Winchester (24th); SpArC Theatre, Bishops Castle (25th); The
The Sweet Lowdown
Bucchleuch Centre, Langholm (26th); The Grapes, Stranraer (27th); The Caledonia, Liverpool (28th); Maltcross, Nottingham (29th); Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge (30th).
www.thesweetlowdown.ca
Martin Simpson comes to The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park, Banbury (27th Mar); The Ram Folk Club, The Old Cranleighans Rugby Club, Portsmouth Road, Thames Ditton (28th); Battle Memorial Hall, High Street, Battle (29th); Bournemouth Folk Club, Ocean View Hotel, Grove Road, East Cliff,
Bournemouth (30th); St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol (3rd Apr); The Flavel, Dartmouth, Devon (10th); Devoran Village Hall, Quay Road, Devoran, Nr Truro (11th).
Alasdair Roberts plays solo dates at Guildford Institute (21st Mar); The Hope, Queens Road, Brighton (22nd); Cube Cinema, Princess Row, Kingsdown, Bristol (23rd); The Riverside, Mowbray Street, Sheffield (25th); Holme Village Hall, Carnforth (26th) and as Alasdair Roberts & Friends at Kings Place, York Way, London N1 (27th Mar) and with The Furrow Collective (28th) as part of Outlandish Nights.
Andy Cutting plays solo at Upstairs At The Western, Leicester (27th Mar); Turners Hill House Concerts (29th).
Emily Portman Trio play at Outlandish Nights, Kings Place, York Way, London, N1 (29th Mar); The Grain Barge, Mardyke Wharf, Hotwells, Bristol, (23rd April); Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter (24th).
Cara Dillon sings at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (21st Mar); Colchester Arts Centre (24th); Junction, Cambridge (25th); St Mary in the Castle, Hastings (29th); The Spring, Havant (4th Apr); Shaftesbury Arts Centre (12th); The Arts Centre, Ormskirk (23rd); Memorial Hall, Sheffield (24th); Victoria Hall, Saltaire (25th).
Tim Edey plays at The Green
Note, Parkway, London NW1 (2nd Apr); Cambridge Folk Club, The Golden Hind, Milton Road, Cambridge (4th); Folk In The Barn, The Barn, The Street, Kingston, Nr Canterbury (5th); Trinity Centre, Trinity Road, Bristol (6th); Folk On The Coast Seasons, Bognor Town F.C., Bognor Regis, West Sussex
(11th); Gosport Spring Festival (12th); Horsham Folk Club, The Normandy Centre, Denne Road, Horsham (13th); Dartford Folk Club, Dartford Working Men’s Club, Essex Road, Dartford (15th); Folk At The Brook, Brook Theatre, The Brook, Chatham (17th).
Legendary American ’60s folk singer/songwriter Eric Andersen is making one of his rare trips to these shores in April including: The Horns, Watford (15th); The Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (16th); Artrix, Bromsgrove (19th); The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff (22nd); Ropetackle Centre, Shoreham-By- Sea (24th); Green Note, Camden (24th); Chapel Arts Centre Bath (25th); The Village Hall Ravenshead Nottingham (26th).
www.performingacts.co.uk
Fay Hield & The Hurricane
Party come to Kings Place, London (4th Apr); New Greenham Arts, Newbury (5th); The Guildhall, Lichfield (6th); The Junction, Cambridge (7th); The Greystones, Sheffield (8th); The Railway, Winchester (9th); The Spring, Havant (10th); The Pavilion, Hailsham (12th).
www.fayhield.com
Eddi Reader’s Vagabond tour heads to Sheffield Memorial Hall (17th Apr); Sage Gateshead (18th); The Brindley, Runcorn (19th); City Varieties, Leeds (21st); Komedia, Bath (22nd); Eden Court, Inverness (24th); Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (25th); Glasgow O2 ABC (27th); Huntingdon Hall, Worcester (29th); Lincoln Drill Hall (30th).
www.eddireader.com
Aly Bain & Phil
Cunningham appear at The Mart Theatre, Skipton Auction Mart, Gargrave Road, Skipton (5th Apr); The Apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds (6th); New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire (7th); The Stables, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes (8th); Jersey Arts Centre, Phillips Street, St Helier, Jersey (9th); St James Guernsey, St James, College Street, St Peter Port, Guernsey (10th); King’s Place, 90 York Way, London (11th); Waterside Arts Centre, Waterside Plaza, Sale, Manchester (12th); Sage Gateshead (13th).
Steve Tilston’s
Happenstance tour continues at *South Pool Hall, nr Kingsbridge, Devon (12th Apr); *Topsham Folk Club, Matthews Hall (13th);
La Chiva Gantiva
Ashington Folk Club, The Portland Rooms (17th); Live at the Star, Admiral Bar, Glasgow (22nd); Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Cabaret Bar (23rd); Birchvale Theatre, Dalbeattie (24th). *trio with Keith Warmington & Stuart Gordon.
www.stevetilston.com
Brussels-Based Colombian
Band La Chiva Gantiva promote their new CD Vivo at O2 Academy Oxford, 190 Cowley Road, Oxford (25th April); The Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, Camden Town, London NW1 (29th).
Steve Knightley’s Grow
Your Own Gig comes to The Town Hall, Midsomer Norton (2nd Apr); Kinver Community Hall, Kinver, Staffs (3rd); Sheriff Hutton Village Hall, Yorkshire (4th); Highworth Community Centre (10th); Cowdray Hall, Midhurst (11th); Woodmancote Village Hall, nr Cheltenham (12th); Pilton Working Men’s Club, Somerset (16th); West Down Parish Hall, Ilfracombe, Devon (17th); Kington Langley Village Hall, nr Chippenham (23rd); Kings Somborne Village Hall, Hampshire (24th); Codford Village Hall, Wiltshire (25th); EMN Hall, Monksilver, Taunton (30th).
Kieran Halpin has current dates at Cramlington Folk Club (25th Mar); Bawbee, Dumfries (27th); The Prospect Inn, Runcorn (7th Apr); The Cross Keys, Uppermill (9th); Bromsgrove Folk Club (10th); Village Pump Folk Club, Trowbridge (11th); Driftwood Live, Scarborough (13th); Sunflower Folk Club, Belfast (24th); Wheland’s, Dublin (27th).
The 21st annual Spring Tour
by Feast Of Fiddles takes place in April starting with two shows at The Village Club, Nettlebed (7th & 8th); then Corn Exchange, Exeter (9th ); Huntingdon Hall, Worcester (10th); Village Hall, Lowdham (11th); The Playhouse, Alnwick, (12th); The Atkinson, Southport (13th); City Varieties, Leeds (14th); The Lincoln Drill Hall, Lincoln (15th); The Stables, Wavendon (16th); The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury (17th); The Theatre On The Hill, Marlborough (18th); The Apex, Bury St Edmunds (19th); The Brook Theatre, Chatham (20th).
Dan Walsh has current dates at The Green Note, London (17th Mar); Stourbridge Folk Club (20th); Montacute Village Hall
Photo: Nicolas Moins
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