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Newark (27th); Ryburn 3 Step Folk Club, Sowerby Bridge (30th); Victoria Hall, Settle (1st May); Goodrich Village Hall (2nd); Square & Compass, Worth Matravers (9th); Longlevens Parish Hall, Gloucester (10th); Walthamstow Folk Club, Rose and Crown Theatre Pub E17 (11th).
Blackbeard’s Tea Party
play at Folk Weekend, Oxford, Oxford (25th & 26th Apr); Howden Live, Shire Hall, 11 Market Place, Howden (16th); Ireby Festival, Globe Hall, Ireby, Wigton (23rd); Chippenham Folk Festival (24th); Chester Folk Festival, Kelsall (25th).
Sarah McQuaid plays at Miss
Peapod’s, Penryn (19th Apr); Folk On The Moor, Ivybridge (27th); Live At The Star, Glasgow (29th); Resipole Studios, Acharacle (30th); Gairloch Community Hall (1st May); Ardross Community Hall 2nd); Gable End Theatre, Lyness (3rd); Ceilidh House & Heritage Centre,Corran (6th); Tullynessle & Forbes Public Hall (8th); Stonehaven Folk Club (9th); Little Theatre on the Green,Whorlton (10th); House Concert, Surbiton (12th); Bracknell Folk, Windlesham (13th); Baldock & Letchworth Folk Club (14th); MegaCentre Rayleigh (17th); Great kNight Folk Club, Northampton (20th); Windmill Acoustic Sessions, Church Crookham (22nd); Square Chapel Centre For The Arts, Halifax (23rd); Festival On The Moor, Whitby (24th).
www.sarahmcquaid.com
Blair Dunlop’s House Of
Jacks tour comes to The Basement, York (21st); Fruit, Hull (24th); Bearded Theory Festival (25th); Thekla, Bristol (25th); Cambridge Junction (26th); Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (27th); The Greystones, Sheffield, (28th); Bodega Social, Nottingham (29th); Band on the Wall, Manchester (30th); Cecil Sharp House, London (31st).
Shooglenifty have May dates at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye (3rd) and The Lemon Tree, 5 West North Street, Aberdeen (22nd).
Troy Faid has an album launch for his new Live By Numbers release at Eiger Studios, Leeds (9th); then plays at The Woolpack Inn, York (11th); Studio Bar, Penzance (15th); Lilicos, Barnstaple (16th);
Dartmouth Music Festival (17th May); The Barge, Gillingham (24th); The Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge (30th).
Steve Tilston’s
Happenstance tour continues at Live at the Star, Admiral Bar, Glasgow (22nd April); Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Cabaret Bar (23rd); Birchvale Theatre, Dalbeattie (24th); One Day Workshop, Hebden Bridge Town Hall (24th May); True Troubadours at Korks, Otley (30th);
Faldingworth Live (31st) for full details see
www.stevetilston.com
Megson’s In A Box tour comes to The Kirkgate Centre, Cockermouth (25th Apr); Pennine Camphill Hall, Wakefield (26th); Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury (27th); Wath Festival (3rd May); Kings Place, London (Album Launch) (16th); New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury (17th); Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford- Upon-Avon (18th); David Hall Arts Centre, South Petherton (22nd); The Old Bull, Royston, North Herts (23rd); The Corn Hall, Diss, Suffolk (24th).
Ewan McLennan has dates at The Grove Folk Club, Back Row, David Street, Leeds (9th May); Folk Around Fishponds Cross Hands, Staple Hill, Fishponds, Bristol (13th).
Jim Causley plays solo at South Brent Folk, South Brent Villlage Hall, Station Approach (26th April); Haddenham Ceilidhs Haddenham Village Hall (3rd May); Bude Folk Festival (24th); Exmouth Festival (26th). The new duo featuring Jim Causley & Lukas Drinkwater play at Wenlock Poetry Festival The Edge Arts Centre Studio, William Brookes School, Much Wenlock (27th Apr) and Shepley Spring Festival (16th May).
Newfoundland five-piece The
Dardanelles return for Shetland Folk Festival (1st – 4th May), then Glenbuchat Hall, Aberdeenshire (April 23rd); Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy (24th); Birnam Arts Centre, Perthshire (25th); Brookfield Village Hall, Renfrewshire (26th); The CatStrand, New Galloway (27th) and Edinburgh TradFest (29th).
3 Daft Monkeys play at Raunds Festival (3rd May) and Bearded Theory Festival (24th).
www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis – Rough Guide Live
London’s Barbican celebrates the 50th birthday of Nonesuch Records with Explorations: The Sound Of Nonesuch Records curating five concerts at Barbican, Milton Court and LSO St Luke’s on 17th and 18th May. Amongst those appearing are Sam Amidon, Natalie Merchant, Rhiannon Giddens, Olivia Chaney & Iarla O’Lionaird with Kronos Quartet (18th). The marathon weekend is part of a wider Nonesuch celebration at the Barbican, featuring further one- off concerts and collaborations throughout May with Devendra Banhart and Rokia Traoré on 2nd May, Natalie Merchant (at Milton Court Concert Hall) on 10th & 11th, Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois on 25th & 26th, Toumani & Sidiki Diabate on the 30th. Tel: 020 7638 8891;
www.barbican.org.uk
Rough Guide Live! (celebrating 25 years of Riverboat Records & Rough Guide CDs) takes place at Rich Mix, London E1 on 17th May with Krar Collective, Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis and Jyotsna Srikanth. Tel: 020 7613 7498;
www.richmix.org.uk
Saharawi Aziza Brahim plays at St Pancras Old Church, London NW1 on 27th April, her first London show since the release of her new album Soutak. Tickets via
www.wegottickets.com
Anvil Arts, Basingstoke plays
host to Robert Cray Band, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Mamane Barka and more. Tel: 01256 844244;
www.anvilarts.org.uk
The free SOAS Concert Series at Thornhaugh Street, London W1 include Zambian afro-folkster Namvula (25th Apr) and the Central Asian singer Sanubar Tursun (12th May).
www.soas.ac.uk/concerts
Coming soon to The Atkinson,
Southport: Mark Radcliffe, Chris Wood, Kan, Maz O’Connor, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy. Tel: 01704 533333;
theatkinson.co.uk
GIGS Forthcoming Electric Voices
events include Pete Coe and The Wilson Family at The Guilford Institute, Ward St and a ceilidh with Pete Coe & A New Vintage at Godalming Borough Hall. Tel: 01483 871443;
www.electricvoices.org
Southbank Centre, London has May dates with Susheela Raman, Anoushka Shankar, Kissmet, Sukhwinder Singh, Sam Lee & Friends, Shye Ben- Tzur & Jonny Greenwood, Sukhwinder Singh and more. Tel: 0844 847 9910;
southbankcenre.co.uk
mac, Birmingham has forthcoming appearances from Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy, Merrymouth, Debashish Bhattacharya, Bella Hardy, Magool, The Destroyers. Tel: 0121 446 3232;
www.macbirmingham.co.uk
Sage Gateshead has May
dates with Aly Bain & Cunningham, Sam Lee & Friends, Bella Hardy, The Bills and John Renbourn & Wizz Jones. Tel: 0191 443 4661;
www.sagegateshead.com
Nettlebed Village Club, High St, Nettlebed, Nr. Henley has future dates with: Paul Downes & Phil Beer, Fairport Convention, Jim Moray, Megson. Tel: 01628 636620;
www.nettlebedfolkclub.co.uk
Cellar Upstairs Folk Club at The Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, London NW1 has future dates with Klezmer Klub, Hunter Robertson, Sara Grey, Ron Taylor & Jeff Gillett, Anne Lister, Donal Maguire, Chris Rohmann and more.
www.cellarupstairs.org.uk
The Full English archives open
day, giving access to some of Cecil Sharp’s original documents, takes place on 10th May at The British Library, London. There will be illustrated talks about folk music collecting, as well as The Full English project and its development, by author and folklorist Steve Roud and EFDSSS Library Director Malcolm Taylor OBE. The event is free, but booking is advised. There is a further event at Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre on 17th May.
Coming soon to the Riverhouse Barn, Walton On Thames are Hannah James &
Natalie Merchant – exploring Nonesuch with Kronos
Photo: Judith Burrows
Photo: Judith Burrows
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