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London (29th); Komedia, Brighton (30th); Louisiana, Bristol (1st); The Gate, Cardiff (2nd).
John Smith plays at The Nailsworth Festival (20th May); Chorlton Arts Festival (22nd); The Fishpond, Matlock Bath (23rd); South Street Arts, Reading (29th); Acoustic Festival of Britain, Uttoxeter (31st);
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Lisa Knapp airs her May- themed solo material at Great Escape, Brighton (10th); The Grain Barge, Mardyke Wharf, Hotwell Road, Hotwells, Bristol (14th); Folk At The Brook, Brook Theatre, Chatham (15th); Fat Lil’s, Witney, Corn Street, Witney (16th); Off The Tracks, Castle Donnington (25th); Jubilee Hall, Bowden Lane, Market Harborough (29th).
SANS – Andrew Cronshaw, Sanna Kurki-Suoni, Tigran Aleksanyan and Ian Blake – will be touring in the UK in May to support the release of SANS Live (with more shows in the UK later in the year): The Stables, Wavendon (11th); Turner Sims, Southampton (13th); West End Centre, Aldershot (14th); Canada Water Culture Space, London (15th); Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester (16th).
Bella Hardy celebrates her 30th year with thirty dates, including solo dates at Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich (14th May); Electric Palace, Bridport (15th); Downend Folk Club, Bristol (16th); Green Man Gallery, Buxton (17th); Shepley Folk festival (18th); St John University, York (19th) and with The Midnight Watch at The Catstrand, New Galloway (28th); CCA, Glasgow (29th); Northern Roots festival, Inverness (30th & 31st).
Kan have Irish dates at The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim (1st May); An Droichead Cooke Street, Ormeau Road, Belfast (2nd); Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Mórshráid Shéamais, Derry (3rd); Whelan’s Live, Wexford Street, Dublin (4th); and then, in England, at The Atkinson, Lord Street, Southport (16th); The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton (17th); Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Mill Street, Ludlow (18th); Forest Arts Centre Old Milton Road, New Milton (20th); The Railway, St Pauls Hill, Winchester (21st); St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Way, London (22nd); Folk Forest, The Library Theatre, Surrey Street, Sheffield (23rd); Big Whistle Festival, The Met, Market Street, Bury (24th); Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, The Hairth, Castle Douglas (25th).
Belshazzar’s Feast bring their 20th Anniversary Tour to Gill Nethercott Centre, Whitchurch, Hampshire (3rd); Studland Village Hall, Dorset (4th); Lamb Folk Club, Eastbourne (7th); South Street Arts Centre, Reading (8th); Oxford Folk Club (9th); Talbot Theatre. Whitchurch Leisure Centre (10th); Edgton Village Hall (11th); Mansfield Folk Club, Black Bull Pub, Mansfield (12th); Embleton Village Hall, Cumbria (15th); Bowness Parish Hall, Bowness-on- Solway (16th); Muncaster Parish Hall, Ravenglass, Cumbria (17th); Walthamstow Folk Club, Ye Olde
Rose & Crown Theatre Pub, Walthamstow (18th); Cottingham Live, Cottingham, East Yorkshire (22nd); St Luke’s Church, Cambridge (23rd); Chippenham Folk Festival (24th); Chester Folk Festival (25th); Ram Folk Club, Thames Ditton (30th); St Mary’s Church, Throwleigh, Devon (31st).
Dave Swarbrick has a solo
tour, with support from Said The Maiden, plus opening support from local artists. ‘An Evening With Swarb’ will see Swarb chatting about his life and answering questions from the floor, as well as playing. Dates include: Walker Theatre, Shrewsbury (17th April); Corn Exchange, Wallingford (19th); South Street Arts Centre, Reading (24th); The Musician, Leicester (25th); Derby Assembly Rooms (26th); Electric Palace, Bridport (2nd May); The Exchange, Sturminster Newton (3rd); Colston Hall (2) The Lantern, Bristol (4th); Key Theatre, Peterborough (15th); Limelight Theatre, Aylesbury (16th); Public Halls, Harpenden (24th).
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Barrence Whitfield & The
Savages play at Norwich Arts Centre (1st May); Crane Lane Theatre, Cork (2nd); Kilkenny Roots Festival (3rd & 4th); The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton (6th); Broadcast, Glasgow (7th); The Cluny, Newcastle (8th); Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury (9th); Fibbers, York (10th); Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (11th); O2 Academy 2, Sheffield (13th); The Railway, Southend (14th); The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (15th); The Haunt, Brighton (16th); The Borderline, London (17th);
Alasdair Roberts plays at The Musician, Clyde Street, Leicester (23rd April); The Riverside, Mowbray Street, Sheffield (25th); Holme Village Hall, Carnforth (26th).
Twelfth Day play at House Concert, Edinburgh (29th Apr); Slaughtered Lamb, London (30th); The Bear, Bath (1st May); Whelan’s, Dublin (4th); The Railway, Winchester (7th); An Tobar, Mull (13th); The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (14th); Shepley Spring Festival (16th – 18th); Pitlochry Festival Theatre (27th); Ort Cage, Birmingham (30th); The Stables, Milton Keynes (31st).
Emily Portman Trio have dates at The Grain Barge, Mardyke Wharf, Hotwells, Bristol (23rd Apr); Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter (24th).
Barbara Dickson & Rab
Noakes play at Malfest, Broomy Bank, Hampton Green, Malpa (15th May); Salford Lowry, Pier 8, The Quays (16th); The Milngavie Town Hall, Station house, Station Road, Milngavie, Glasgow (17th); King George’s Hall, Northgate, Blackburn (18th).
Bayou Seco play at The Vic, Menai Bridge (22nd Apr); Meole Brace Memorial Hall, Shrewsbury (23rd); Quorn Village Hall, Leicestershire (24th); Northwick Arms Hall, Ketton, Leics (25th); Spilsby Theatre, Lincs (26th); Coddington Village Hall, nr
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